This is the first book to focus on governance and cultures of consumption, expanding the debate and raising new conceptions and policy agendas. It questions the changing place of the consumer as citizen in recent trends in governance, the tensions...
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This is the first book to focus on governance and cultures of consumption, expanding the debate and raising new conceptions and policy agendas. It questions the changing place of the consumer as citizen in recent trends in governance, the tensions between competing ideas and practices of consumerism, and the active role of consumers in governance
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Consumption and Citizenship in the New Governance; Part I: Interpreting Governance; 2 The Construction of Governance; 3 Governance as Cultural Practice: Texts, Talk and the Struggle for Meaning; 4 Consuming Social Science; Part II: Contested Consumers; 5 'It's Not Like Shopping': Citizens, Consumers and the Reform of Public Services; 6 The Governance of Health Policy in the United Kingdom
7 Regulating Markets in the Interest of Consumers? On the Changing Regime of Governance in the Financial Service and Communications SectorsPart III: New Perspectives; 8 After Modernism: Local Reasoning, Consumption, and Governance; 9 Critical Theory in a Swing: Political Consumerism between Politics and Policy; 10 Problematizing Choice: Responsible Consumers and Sceptical Citizens; 11 Conclusion: Reflections on Governance from an International Perspective; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
