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PUTTING CIVIL SOCIETY IN ITS PLACE
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Dedicated to the memory of my brother, Richard John Jessop (1947–2017)
Contents
1 | Introduction |
PART I | Complexity, contingency and governance |
2 | The governance of complexity and the complexity of governance |
3 | Governance failure, metagovernance and its failure |
4 | Semantic, institutional and spatio-temporal fixes |
PART II | Locating civil society as a mode of governance |
5 |
Locating the WISERD Project: Public policy governance towards common good
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