TY - BOOK AU - Bevir,Mark AU - Trentmann,Frank TI - Governance, consumers and citizens: agency and resistance in contemporary politics SN - 0230517285 (alk. paper) AV - JF1351 .G6785 2007 U1 - 339.4/7 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York PB - Plagrave Macmillan KW - Public administration KW - Citizenship KW - Consumption (Economics) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: consumption and citizenship in the new governance / Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann -- Interpreting governance -- The construction of governance / Mark Bevir -- Governance as cultural practice: texts, talk and the struggle for meaning / Janet Newman -- Consuming social science / Claire Donovan -- Contested consumers -- "It's not like shopping": citizens, consumers and the reform of public services / John Clarke -- The governance of health policy in the United Kingdom / Ian Greener, Martin Powell, Nick Mills and Shane Doheny -- 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 -- New perspectives -- After modernism: local reasoning, consumption, and governance / Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann -- Critical theory in a swing: political consumerism between politics and policy / Henrik P. Bang -- Problematizing choice: responsible consumers and sceptical citizens / Alice Malpass, Clive Barnett, Nick Clarke and Paul Cloke -- Conclusion -- Reflections on governance from an international perspective / Bronwen Morgan UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2007023403-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2007023403-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2007023403-t.html ER -