Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance

Paul Fawcett is Associate Professor of Governance and Director of the Centre for Change Governance at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra. He has published in numerous scholarly journals such as Politics, Policy and Politics, Critical Policy Studies, and Political Studies Review.Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. His publications include Defending Politics (OUP, 2012), Democratic Drift (OUP, 2009), and The Oxford Handbook of British Politics (co-edited wtih A. Gamble, M. Kenny, and C. Hay, OUP, 2009).Colin Hay is Professor of Political Sciences at Sciences Po, Paris. His publications include Civic Capitalism (with Anthony Payne, Polity, 2015), The Failure of Anglo-Liberal Capitalism (Palgrave, 2012), and The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism (with Daniel Wincott, Palgrave, 2012).Matthew Wood is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield and Deputy Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre. He has published in numerous scholarly journals such as Public Administration, Political Studies, and Government and Opposition.

a key contribution to scholarship on depoliticisation that will influence future research.

• SECTION I: THEORETICAL INNOVATION; SECTION II: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; SECTION III: NEW EMPIRICAL HORIZONS; SECTION IV: DISCUSSION AND DEBATE