Introduction
Consumption and Citizenship in the New Governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23248984 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Bevir (0000-0001-9666-3113, University of California, Berkeley), Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Governance, Consumers and Citizens (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230591363_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2491297047 |
| ISBN | 9780230591363 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
The rise of new patterns of governance over the last thirty years has moved the relationship between consumption and citizenship to the centre of scholarly and public debate.1Neoliberals have sought to place the consumer and choice at the centre of their programmes of public sector reform.2It is often thought that various social democrats, including New Labour in the United Kingdom, have more or less followed suit.3Yet, unfortunately, current policies and debates about governance have evolved around a narrow conception of the consumer, imagined in neoliberal terms as a rational self-maximizing economic individual. This narrow concept of the consumer stands in contrast to that found in the recent literature on consumption. This literature emphasizes the diverse discourses, traditions, and practices that make up cultures of consumption, but it has been slow to engage with the debate on governance. Governance, Consumers, and Citizens places the new governance and cultures of consumption into the same frame of analysis. It explores the active role of consumers in the construction of governance, the changing place of the consumer as citizen in recent trends in governance, and the tensions between alternative, competing ideas and practices of consumption. It moves the debate beyond the narrow confines of neoliberalism.
Citizenship · Consumption (sociology) · Corporate governance · Economics · Management · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration
Freer markets, more rules
Constructing a European Market
The Executive Agency Revolution in Whitehall
Democracy, bureaucracy and public choice
Reconstructing Citizens as Consumers
Defining the Client in the Public Sector
Consuming Ethics
The Networked Polity
Antistatist Reforms and New Administrative Directions
The open method of co-ordination and new governance patterns in the EU
Bureaucrats, Budgets and the Growth of the State
Understanding Governance
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |