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This is the first book to focus on governance and cultures of consumption, expanding the debate and raising new conceptions and policy agendas. It questions the changing place of the consumer as citizen in recent trends in governance, the tensions between competing ideas and practices of consumerism...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Consumption and public life |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230591363 |
| Summary: |
This is the first book to focus on governance and cultures of consumption, expanding the debate and raising new conceptions and policy agendas. It questions the changing place of the consumer as citizen in recent trends in governance, the tensions between competing ideas and practices of consumerism, and the active role of consumers in governance. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | 296 p. |
| ISBN: |
9780230517288 9780230591363 : 0230591361 : |
| CLC: | K901 |
| Contents: | List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Consumption and Citizenship in the New Governance-- M.Bevir & F.Trentmann PART 1: INTERPRETING GOVERNANCE The Construction of Governance-- M.Bevir Governance as Cultural Practice: Texts, Talk and the Struggle for Meaning-- J.Newman Consuming Social Science-- C.Donovan PART 2: CONTESTED CONSUMERS 'It's Not Like Shopping': Citizens, Consumers and the Reform of Public Services-- J.Clarke The Governance of Health Policy in the United Kingdom-- I.Greener, M.Powell, N.Mills & S.Doheny Regulating Markets in the Interest of Consumers? On the Changin |