Governmentality After Neoliberalism

This book therefore explores the mixture of social technologies that have arisen since neoliberalism, sometimes alongside and sometimes in conflict with it, but generally as attempts to address problems created by the market reforms of a high neoliberalism. These have included attempts to spread networks, joining-up, and long term partnerships, and to build state capacity, social capital, and resilient communities. Thematically, each chapter is defined by its engagement with governmentality, specifically challenging governmentality theory to pay more attention to practices. The book also develops a complex and variegated account of neoliberalism and its afterlife as chapters highlight the different ways in which a range of market mechanisms and other technologies now coexist in different policy areas. Finally, the book moves beyond abstract discussions of both governmentality and neoliberalism to concrete demonstrations of this approach in action.

This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of governance, public policy, governmentality theory and more broadly to British Politics, social policy, and sociology.

Mark Bevir a Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Center for British Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Professor in the Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University - MERIT, Maastricht, Netherlands, and a Distinguished Research Professor in the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University, UK. Currently he serves as President of the Society for the Philosophy of History (USA), a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Public Policy, a member of the Executive Council of the Western Political Science Association (USA), and Co-chair of the Interpretive Approaches group of the British International Studies Association.