Putting Civil Society in Its Place

Governance, Metagovernance and Subjectivity

Bob Jessop (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2022
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-5496-3 (ISBN)

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Through theories of metagovernance and case studies of mobilisations against economic and social problems, Bob Jessop explores the idea of civil society as a mode of governance. Reviewing concepts of self-emancipation and self-responsibilisation, he challenges conventional thinking and identifies lessons for future social innovation.

Renowned social and political theorist Bob Jessop explores the idea of civil society as a mode of governance in this bold challenge to current thinking.

Developing theories of governance failure and metagovernance, the book analyses the limits and failures of economic and social policy in various styles of governance. Reviewing the principles of self-emancipation and self-responsibilisation it considers the struggle to integrate civil society into governance, and the power of social networks and solidarity within civil society.

With case studies of mobilisations to tackle economic and social problems, this is a comprehensive review of the factors that influence their success and identifies lessons for future social innovation.

Bob Jessop is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. He works on critical governance studies and welfare state restructuring and was previously involved in the WISERD Civil Society Research Centre.

1 Introduction

Part I: Complexity, contingency and governance

2 The governance of complexity and the complexity of governance

3 Governance failure, metagovernance and its failure

4 Semantic, institutional and spatio-temporal fixes

Part II: Locating civil society as a mode of governance

5 Locating the WISERD Project: Public policy governance towards common good

6 Locating civil society in Marx and Gramsci

7 Locating civil society in Foucault

Part III: Governance failure and metagovernance

8 The multispatial governance of social and economic policy

9 The dynamics of economic and social partnerships and governance failure

10 Competitiveness vs civil society as modes of governance

11 Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Civil Society and Social Change
Zusatzinfo	7 Tables, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-4473-5496-6 / 1447354966
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-5496-3 / 9781447354963
Zustand	Neuware