Governance, consumers and citizens
Subtitle: agency and resistance in contemporary politics
By: edited by Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann.
Contributors: Bevir, Mark.; Trentmann, Frank.
Series: Consumption and public life series
Publisher: Plagrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Public administration; Citizenship; Consumption (Economics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: consumption and citizenship in the new governance / Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann; title: Interpreting governance; title: The construction of governance / Mark Bevir; title: Governance as cultural practice: texts, talk and the struggle for meaning / Janet Newman; title: Consuming social science / Claire Donovan; title: Contested consumers; title: "It's not like shopping": citizens, consumers and the reform of public services / John Clarke; title: The governance of health policy in the United Kingdom / Ian Greener, Martin Powell, Nick Mills and Shane Doheny; title: Regulating markets in the interest of consumers? On the changing regime of governance in the financial service and communications sectors / Peter Lunt and Sonia Livingstone; title: New perspectives; title: After modernism: local reasoning, consumption, and governance / Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann; title: Critical theory in a swing: political consumerism between politics and policy / Henrik P. Bang; title: Problematizing choice: responsible consumers and sceptical citizens / Alice Malpass, Clive Barnett, Nick Clarke and Paul Cloke; title: Conclusion; title: Reflections on governance from an international perspective / Bronwen Morgan.