Bob Jessop Livres

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.

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.

In this important new book, Bob Jessop offers a radical new interpretation of capitalist states and their likely future development. He focuses on the changing forms, functions, scales and effectiveness of economic and social policy that have emerged since the 1950s in advanced western capitalist states.

The book offers a radical critique of existing theories regarding working-class deference and voting behaviors in British political culture. Utilizing unpublished opinion poll data alongside the author's own surveys, it presents compelling evidence to reformulate traditional themes of deference and civility. The author explores these concepts through the lens of social order within class-stratified societies, challenging established perspectives and contributing to the understanding of political dynamics in Britain.

Through theories of metagovernance and case studies of mobilisations against economic and social problems, Bob Jessop explores the idea of civil society as a mode of governance. Reviewing concepts of self-emancipation and self- responsibilisation, he challenges conventional thinking and identifies lessons for future social innovation.

Staatstheorie steht im Mittelpunkt einer kritischen Gesellschaftsanalyse, die die sozialen Kämpfe um die Reproduktion und Transformation von Herrschaft beschreibt. Bob Jessop nimmt die Krise des fordistischen Staatsprojekts, die Tendenzen der Aushöhlung, Internationalisierung und Dezentralisierung der keynesianischen Sozial- und Wohlfahrtsstaaten und die Herausbildung neuartiger Governance-Strukturen zum Anlass für eine kritische Ortsbestimmung materialistischer Staatstheorie. In vielfältigen Anschlüssen an die staatstheoretischen Überlegungen von Karl Marx oder Antonio Gramsci, die formationstheoretischen Analysen von Nicos Poulantzas oder die ökonomietheoretischen Erörterungen der französischen Regulationstheorie entwickelt Jessop einen ›strategisch-relationalen Ansatz‹, um die Veränderungen von Staatlichkeit, die Dynamiken der Beziehungen von Staat und Gesellschaft und die Verhältnisse von Ökonomie und Politik im aktuellen Kapitalismus exakter bestimmen zu können.