Tables
3.1 First-order responses to governance failure
5.1 The four ‘little platoons’ of phase 1 of the WISERD Civil Society research programme, 2014–18
8.1 Disambiguating global social governance
9.1 Factors relevant to ecological dominance in the relations among functional systems
11.1 Approaches to civil society
Figures
11.1 The Enlightenment triangle
| BHPS | British Household Panel Survey |
| CPE | Cultural political economy |
| CSO | Civil society organization |
| ESRC | Economic and Social Research Council |
| EU | European Union |
| EZ | Enterprise Zone |
| FBO | Faith-based organization |
| GSP | Global social policy |
| HE | Higher education |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IWA | International Workingmen’s Association |
| LEP | Local Enterprise Partnership |
| LSP | London Science Park |
| MLG | Multilevel governance |
| MSMG | Multispatial metagovernance |
| NCRM | National Centre for Research Methods |
| NGO | Non-governmental organization |
| OECD | Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OMC | Open method of coordination |
| Q | Quaderno (Notebook) |
| QUALITi | Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact (2005–08), a research unit at Cardiff University focused on qualitative research methods, especially the social contexts in which research methods and methodologies are situated |
| R&D | Research and development |
| SRA | Strategic-relational approach |
| STF | Spatio-temporal fix |
| TPSN | Territory, place, scale, network |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| UN | United Nations |
| US | United States |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| WISER | Wales Institute of Economic and Social Research |
| WISERD | Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods |
Bob Jessop is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. He previously taught in the Department of Government at Essex University and has held visiting fellowships in the European University Institute, Florence, the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), the School of Geography at Manchester University, and the Post-Growth College at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Germany).
His research interests are state theory, critical governance studies, critical political economy, cultural political economy and welfare state restructuring. He has published extensively in books, anthologies and journal articles. His recent work includes: Towards a Cultural Political Economy (co-authored with Ngai-Ling Sum, Edward Elgar, 2013); The State: Past, Present, Future (Polity, 2015); Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics (co-edited