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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.
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