Governance, Consumers and Citizens

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 Changing Regime of Governance in the Financial Service and Communications Sectors; P.Lunt & S.Livingstone PART 3: NEW PERSPECTIVES After Modernism: Local Reasoning, Consumption, and Governance; M.Bevir & F.Trentmann Critical Theory in a Swing: Political Consumerism between Politics and Policy; H.P.Bang Problematizing Choice: Responsible Consumers and Sceptical Citizens; A.Malpass, C.Barnett, N.Clarke & P.Cloke CONCLUSION Reflections on Governance from an International Perspective; B.Morgan Index