Governance, Consumers and Citizens

MARK BEVIR is Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is author of The Logic of the History of Ideas, and New Labour: A Critique, and co-author, with R.A.W. Rhodes, of Governance Stories. FRANK TRENTMANN is Professor of Modern History, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Recent publications include Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives, edited with John Brewer, Civil Society: A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics, edited with John A. Hall.

'Radically pushing forward the debate on consumers and governance, this collection outlines new conceptions and posits new policy agendas. - Journal of Consumer Policy 'This book seems to me full of interesting papers that will challenge academics and postgraduate students interested in public policy and administration. It will, I suspect, be much pored over and the editors and authors are to be congratulated on its production.' - Michael Connolly, Political Studies Review '...succeeds in revitalizing and enriching the debate on the relationship between consumption and citizenship...an invitation to sociologists to enter the debate and bring their sociological imagination to arrive at a better, more truthful understanding of this very important, complex, ambivalent and paradoxical phenomenon that is governance' - Sociology

• List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Consumption and Citizenship in the New Governance; M.Bevir & F.Trentmann PART 1: INTERPRETING GOVERNANCE The Construction of Governance; M.Bevir Governance as Cultural Practice: Texts, Talk and the Struggle for Meaning; J.Newman Consuming Social Science; C.Donovan PART 2: CONTESTED CONSUMERS 'It's Not Like Shopping': Citizens, Consumers and the Reform of Public Services; J.Clarke The Governance of Health Policy in the United Kingdom; I.Greener, M.Powell, N.Mills & S.Doheny Regulating Markets in the Interest of Consumers? On the Changing Regime of Governance in the Financial Service and Communications Sectors; P.Lunt & S.Livingstone PART 3: NEW PERSPECTIVES After Modernism: Local Reasoning, Consumption, and Governance; M.Bevir & F.Trentmann Critical Theory in a Swing: Political Consumerism between Politics and Policy; H.P.Bang Problematizing Choice: Responsible Consumers and Sceptical Citizens; A.Malpass, C.Barnett, N.Clarke & P.Cloke CONCLUSION Reflections on Governance from an International Perspective; B.Morgan Index