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Governance, Consumers and Citizens Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics Edited by Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann Consumption and Public Life Series Editors: Frank Trentmannand Richard Wilk Titles include: Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham MEDIA CONSUMPTION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT Beyond the Presumption of Attention Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann (editors) GOVERNANCE, CONSUMERS AND CITIZENS Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics Forthcoming: Jacqueline Botterill CONSUMER CULTURE AND PERSONAL FINANCE Money Goes to Market Daniel Cook (editor) LIVED EXPERIENCES OF PUBLIC CONSUMPTION Studies of Culture and Value in International Market Places Roberta Sassatelli FITNESS CULTURE Gyms and the Commercialisation of Discipline and Fun Kate Soper and Frank Trentmann (editors) CITIZENSHIP AND CONSUMPTION Stephen Kline FAST FOOD/SLUGGISH KIDS Unpacking the Crisis in Consumer Socialization? Hal Wilhite CONSUMPTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE A View from South India Kate Soper, Martin Ryle and Lyn Thomas (editors) BETTER THAN SHOPPING Counter-Consumerism and its Pleasures Magnus Boström and Mikael Klintman TOOLS FOR TRUST Eco-Standards towards a Greener and more Democratic Consumer Society Also by Mark Bevir GOVERNANCE STORIES NEW LABOUR A Critique THE LOGIC OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS INTERPRETING BRITISH GOVERNANCE MARKETS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXTS Ideas and Politics in the Modern World (co-editor) CRITIQUES OF CAPITAL IN MODERN BRITAIN AND AMERICA Transatlantic Exchanges (co-editor) Also by Frank Trentmann BEYOND SOVEREIGNTY Britain, Empire and Transnationalism (co-editor) CONSUMING CULTURES, GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges (co-editor) FOOD AND CONFLICT IN EUROPE IN THE AGE OF THE TWO WORLD WARS (co-editor) THE MAKING OF THE CONSUMER Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World (editor) CIVIL SOCIETY A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics (co-editor) WORLDS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY Knowledge and Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (co-editor) PARADOXES OF CIVIL SOCIETY New Perspectives on Modern Germany and British History (editor) Consumption and Public Life Series Standing OrderISBN 978-1-4039-9983-2 (hardback) 978-1-4039-9984-9 (paperback) (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Governance, Consumers and Citizens Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics Edited by Mark Bevir University of California, Berkeley and Frank Trentmann Birkbeck College, University of London © Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann 2007 Chapters © the authors Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-0-230-51728-8 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. 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Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-35503-7 ISBN 978-0-230-59136-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230591363 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Governance, consumers and citizens : agency and resistance in contemporary politics / edited by Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann. p. cm. – (Consumption and public life series) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Public administration. 2. Citizenship. 3. Consumption (Economics) I. Bevir, Mark. II. Trentmann, Frank. JF1351.G6785 2007 339.4'7–dc22 2007023403 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 Contents List of Tables vii Notes on Contributors viii 1 Introduction: Consumption and Citizenship in the New Governance 1 Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann Part I Interpreting Governance 23 2 The Construction of Governance 25 Mark Bevir 3 Governance as Cultural Practice: Texts, Talk and the Struggle for Meaning 49 Janet Newman 4 Consuming Social Science 69 Claire Donovan Part II Contested Consumers 95 5 ‘It’s Not Like Shopping’: Citizens, Consumers and the Reform of Public Services 97 John Clarke 6 The Governance of Health Policy in the United Kingdom 119 Ian Greener, Martin Powell, Nick Mills and Shane Doheny 7 Regulating Markets in the Interest of Consumers? On the Changing Regime of Governance in the Financial Service and Communications Sectors 139 Peter Lunt and Sonia Livingstone Part III New Perspectives 163 8 After Modernism: Local Reasoning, Consumption, and Governance 165 Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann 9 Critical Theory in a Swing: Political Consumerism between Politics and Policy 191 Henrik Paul Bang v vi Contents 10 Problematizing Choice: Responsible Consumers and Sceptical Citizens 231 Alice Malpass, Clive Barnett, Nick Clarke and Paul Cloke 11 Conclusion: Reflections on Governance from an International Perspective 257 Bronwen Morgan Index 279 List of Tables 6.1 Structural and Cultural Situational Logics 121 9.1 Politics-policy and Policy-politics 198 vii Notes on Contributors Henrik Paul Bang is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is editor of Governance as Social and Political Communication (2003) and, with Anders Esmark, New Publics With/out Democracy(2007). Clive Barnett is Reader in Human Geography at the Open University, UK. He is author of Culture and Democracy(2003) and co-editor of Spaces of Democracy(2004). Mark Bevir is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.He is author of The Logic of the History of Ideas (1999), and New Labour: A Critique(2005), and co-author, with R. A. W. Rhodes, of Governance Stories (2006). He is co-editor, with Frank Trentmann, of Markets in Historical Contexts (2004), and, with Robert Adcock and Shannon Stimson, of Modern Political Science(2007). John Clarkeis Professor of Social Policy at the Open University, UK. His recent publications include Changing Welfare, Changing States: New Directions in Social Policy (2004), and Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing Relationships and Identifications, with Janet Newman, Nick Smith, Elizabeth Vidler and Louise Westmarland (2007). Nick Clarke is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Southampton, UK. He has research interests in transnational mobility, contemporary urbanism, and the cultural politics of globalisation, identity and place. Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. He is Founder Editor of Journal of Rural Studies, and his recent books include: International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness (2006); Handbook of Rural Studies (2006); Spaces of Geographic Thought (2004); and Envisioning Human Geographies(2004). Shane Doheny is a Research Associate employed working with Ian Greener and Martin Powell on an ESRC-AHRC project under the ‘Cultures of Consumption’ programme, University of Manchester, UK. viii Notes on Contributors ix Claire Donovan is Research Fellow at the Research Evaluation and Policy Project, in the Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Australia. She has published on the governance of social science, and on the contingent nature of political concepts, and is writing a book on The Governance of Social Science. Ian Greeneris Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at the Centre for Public Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely in a range of governance and management related journals particularly in the area of healthcare. Sonia Livingstoneis Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She researches and teaches in the field of media and communications.Recent books include Young People and New Media (2002), The Handbook of New Media (edited, with Leah Lievrouw, 2002 and 2006), Audiences and Publics (edited, 2005), and Public Connection? Media Consumption and the Presumption of Attention (with Nick Couldry and Tim Markham, 2007). Peter Luntis Professor of Communications and Media Studies at Brunel University, UK. His areas of research include consumption research, the media audience and social theory. He has published several books, including Mass Consumption and Personal Identity, with Sonia Livingstone (1992) and many articles in academic journals. Alice Malpass is Research Associate in the Academic Unit Of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol, UK. She did doctoral work in South India on issues of choice, markets and agricultural transformation. Nick Mills is a Research Associate employed working with Ian Greener and Martin Powell on an ESRC-AHRC project under the ‘Cultures of Consumption’ programme, University of Manchester, UK. Bronwen Morgan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. Previously, she was the Harold Woods Research Fellow in Law at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Wadham College, University of Oxford (2002–2005). Her research is on global governance and the political economy of regulatory reform, and her publications include Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition(2003).
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