Janet Newman 
Remaking governance [PDF ebook] 
Peoples, politics and the public sphere

Remaking governance focuses on the dynamics of change as new strategies – active citizenship, public participation, partnership working, consumerism – encounter existing institutions. It explores different sites and practices of governing, from the remaking of Europe to the increasing focus on ‘community’ and ‘personhood’ in governing social life. The authors critically engage with existing theory across political science, social policy, sociology and public administration and management to explore how ‘the social’ is constituted through governance practices. This includes the ways in which the spaces and territories of governing are remade and the peoples constituted; how the public domain is re-imagined and new forms of state-citizen relationships fostered and how the remaking of governance shapes our understanding of politics, changing the ways in which citizens engage with political power and the selves they bring to that engagement.  Remaking governance is essential reading for academics and students across a range of social science disciplines, and of interest to those engaged in policy evaluation and reform.

About the author

Janet Newman is Professor of Social Policy at the Open University. Her previous book, Modernising Governance: New Labour, Policy and Society, is a key text on undergraduate and masters programmes across Europe, Australasia and North America.