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  • The State

    Past, Present, Future

    by Bob Jessop ...
    Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However, the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of different interpretations.In this book, distinguished state theorist Bob Jessop provides a critical introduction to the state as both a concept and a reality. He lucidly guides readers through all the major ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • State Power

    by Bob Jessop ...
    Bob Jessop presents an up-to-date account of his distinctive approach to the dialectics of structure and strategy in the exercise of state power. While his earlier work critically surveys other state theories, this book focuses on the development of his own strategic-relational approach. It introduces its main sources, outlines its development, applies this approach to four case studies, and ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • The Pedagogy of Economic, Political and Social Crises

    Dynamics, Construals and Lessons

    Edited by Bob Jessop, Karim Knio ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Crises have been studied in many disciplines and from diverse perspectives for at least 150 years. Yet recent decades have seen a marked increase in the crisis literature, reflecting growing awareness of crisis phenomena from the 1970s onwards.Responding to this mainstream literature, this edited collection makes six key innovations. First, it distinguishes between crises as event and crises as ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • State Theory

    Putting the Capitalist State in Its Place

    by Bob Jessop ...
    This volume develops a novel approach to state theory. It offers a comprehensive review of the existing literature on the state and sets a new agenda for state research.Four central themes define the scope of the book: an account of the bases of the operational autonomy of the state; the need to develop state theory as part of a more general social theory; the possibilities of explaining ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Putting Civil Society in Its Place

    Governance, Metagovernance and Subjectivity

    by Bob Jessop ...
    Series series Civil Society and Social Change
    Renowned social and political theorist Bob Jessop explores the idea of civil society as a mode of governance in this bold challenge to current thinking.Developing theories of governance failure and metagovernance, the book analyses the limits and failures of economic and social policy in various styles of governance. Reviewing the principles of self-emancipation and self-responsibilisation it ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism

    The Collapse of an Economic Order?

    by Tony Bebbington, Doctor Paul Chatterton, Doctor Paul Routledge, Doctor Adam Swain, Adam Tickell, Doctor David Tyfield, Elisa van Waeyenberge, Ben Fine, Doctor David Miller, Jean Shaoul, Shaun French, Leonith Hinojosa, Professor Bob Jessop, Larry Lohmann, Julie MacLeavy ...
    The recent, devastating and ongoing economic crisis has exposed the faultlines in the dominant neoliberal economic order, opening debate for the first time in years on alternative visions that do not subscribe to a 'free' market ethic.Bringing together the work of distinguished scholars and dedicated activists, The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism presents critical perspectives of neoliberal ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Transnational Capital and Class Fractions

    The Amsterdam School Perspective Reconsidered

    Edited by Bob Jessop, Henk Overbeek ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    Emerging in the late 1970s, the Amsterdam School’s (AS) most distinctive contribution to international political economy was the systematic incorporation of the Marxian concept of capital fractions into the study of international politics. Contending that politics in advanced capitalist countries takes place in a fundamentally transnationalized space in which the distinction between ‘domestic’ and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics

    Edited by Bob Jessop, Brigitte Young, Christoph Scherrer ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    The recent financial crisis exposed both a naïve faith in mathematical models to manage risk and a crude culture of greed that embraces risk. This book explores cultures of finance in sites such as corporate governance, hedge funds, central banks, the City of London and Wall Street, and small and medium enterprises. It uses different methods to explore these cultures and their interaction with ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Technological Change, Rationalisation and Industrial Relations

    Edited by Otto Jacobi, Bob Jessop, Hans Kastendiek, Marino Regini ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Automobile Industry
    Originally published in 1986 the first part of this book outlines some of the general problems of technological change and labour relations. It discusses the politics of rationalisation and of industrialisation in the car industry by examining case studies of Volkswagen British Leyland and FIAT. The impact developments exert on trade unions in the UK, Germany and Italy is discussed simultaneously. ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Economic Crisis, Trade Unions and the State

    Edited by Otto Jacobi, Bob Jessop, Hans Kastendiek, Marino Regini ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Trade Unions
    Originally published in 1986, this book analyses the impact of the changing economic and political climate on trade unions in Europe. The first part of the book deals with general issues, and the succeeding parts look at developments in the UK, Italy and the former West Germany. ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

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    by Chantal Mouffe ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
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  • Henri Lefebvre

    Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City

    by Chris Butler ...
    Series series Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers
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