REMAKING GOVERNANCE: PEOPLES, POLITICS AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE; ED. BY JANET NEWMAN

Remaking governance focuses on the dynamics of change as new strategies - active citizenship, public participation, partnership working, consumerism - encounter existing institutions. It explores different sites and practices of governing, from the remaking of Europe to the increasing focus on 'community' and 'personhood' in governing social life. The authors critically engage with existing theory across political science, social policy, sociology and public administration and management to explore how 'the social' is constituted through governance practices. This includes the ways in which the spaces and territories of governing are remade and the peoples constituted; how the public domain is re-imagined and new forms of state-citizen relationships fostered and how the remaking of governance shapes our understanding of politics, changing the ways in which citizens engage with political power and the selves they bring to that engagement. Remaking governance is essential reading for academics and students across a range of social science disciplines, and of interest to those engaged in policy evaluation and reform. REMAKING GOVERNANCE Contents List of tables and figures Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction Reconstituting Europe Governance and the constitution of a European social Remaking European governance Regendering governance Welfare governance and the remaking of citizenship Participative governance and the remaking of the public sphere Promoting democratic governance through partnerships? Among everyday makers and expert citizens Governance and the transformation of political representation Conclusion Index There has been an explosion of new forms of governance as societies adapt to economic, social and political change. This book highlights the dynamics of the social, cultural and institutional practices involved in 'remaking' governance. It is structured around three key themes: the remaking of peoples, publics and politics. Highlighting the dynamics of the social, cultural and institutional practices involved in 'remaking' governance, this work is structured around three key themes: the remaking of peoples, publics and politics