Beschreibung:
Combines various academic understandings of the practice of knowledge and governance in relation to conceptions of public sociology and civil society.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I The Politics of Knowledge; Chapter 2 Public Sociology; Chapter 3 Public Sociology as Knowledge, Politics, and Portrayal; Part II The Expansion of Governing; Chapter 4 Civil Society and the Origins of the Expansion of Governing; Chapter 5 The Transformation of the State Thesis; Part III Power and Practice; Chapter 6 Governing Texts; Chapter 7 NGOs, the State, and Governance as Rites of Rule; Chapter 8 Conclusion;