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Challenging governance theory : from networks to hegemony /

This text develops a Gramscian account of contemporary governance. It critiques the fashionable view that there has been a shift from hierarchy to networks, arguing instead that the ideology of network governance is part of the neoliberal hegemonic project.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davies, Jonathan S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Chicago : Policy Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CHALLENGING GOVERNANCE THEORY
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The network governance milieu
  • Introduction
  • The rise of network analysis
  • Post-traditional network governance theory
  • The theory of reflexive modernisation
  • Marxism and the network society
  • Summary
  • 2. Network governance policy
  • Introduction
  • The theory effect
  • The universe of governance networks
  • Network governance policy in the UK
  • The case for network governance
  • Summary
  • 3. The limits of network governance
  • Introduction
  • Governance networks in the 20th century
  • The governmentalisation of governance networks
  • Network closure and creeping managerialism
  • Institutionalising inequality
  • Networks based on distrust
  • Recuperating post-traditionality?
  • Foucauldian network governance
  • Summary
  • 4. Beyond the transformation thesis
  • Introduction
  • Structure and agency
  • Capitalism
  • Capitalism today
  • The state(s)
  • Capitalism and the capitalist state
  • Classes
  • Summary
  • 5. From network governance to hegemony
  • Introduction
  • Post-traditional Gramscian analysis
  • The Gramscian conception of hegemony
  • Neoliberalism, networks and hegemony
  • Governance networks and the integral state
  • Connectionism in context
  • Summary
  • 6. Gramscian governance research
  • Introduction
  • Dialectical network analysis
  • A Gramscian perspective on network variety
  • Critical scholarship and governance networks
  • Emancipation through networks
  • Summary
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.