Putting Civil Society in Its Place

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 IntroductionPart I: Complexity, contingency and governance2 The governance of complexity and the complexity of governance3 Governance failure, metagovernance and its failure 4 Semantic, institutional and spatio-temporal fixes Part II: Locating civil society as a mode of governance5 Locating the WISERD Project: Public policy governance towards common good6 Locating civil society in Marx and Gramsci 7 Locating civil society in Foucault Part III: Governance failure and metagovernance8 The multispatial governance of social and economic policy 9 The dynamics of economic and social partnerships and governance failure10 Competitiveness vs civil society as modes of governance 11 Conclusions