In other words, the question of policy instruments is central in Foucault’s analysis of governmentality. He contributed to the renewal of thinking on the state and governmental practices by shunning the conventional debates of political philosophy about the nature and legitimacy of governments, devoting himself instead to their materiality, their policies and their modes of acting. In his reflections on the political, he put forward the question of the ‘statization of society’ that is, the development of concrete devices, instruments, practices functioning more through discipline than constraint, and framing the actions and representations of all the social actors.