Putting Civil Society in Its Place. Jessop, Bob

      

       PUTTING CIVIL SOCIETY IN ITS PLACE

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      Dedicated to the memory of my brother, Richard John Jessop (1947–2017)

       Contents

List of tables and figures

Abbreviations

Note on the author

Acknowledgements

Licensing information

Preface

1	Introduction
PART I	Complexity, contingency and governance
2	The governance of complexity and the complexity of governance
3	Governance failure, metagovernance and its failure
4	Semantic, institutional and spatio-temporal fixes
PART II	Locating civil society as a mode of governance
5	Locating the WISERD Project: Public policy governance towards common good