Description
By assembling original, ethnographically-grounded research in legislatures, executives, and bureaucracies, this volume illuminates and unpacks the structures, practices, and values of government actors in local, regional, and national contexts.
Table of Contents
Government Matters: Intellectual Labor and the Work of Governing; K.Coulter & W.R.Schumann Navigating the Illegible State: Governmentality and Political Process; T.A.Schwegler A Project of Governing and its Contradictions: Maternal-Infant Care in Highland Ecuador; K.Clark Governing Beef: Program Implementation, Unintended Consequences and BSE Control in Alberta; A.Smart & J.Smart Selling Clear Red Water: The Identity Politics of Governing in the National Assembly for Wales; W.R.Schumann Legislative Authenticity and the Politics of Recognition: Being a M?ori Member of the New Zealand Parliament; I.Gershon Gendering Government: Political Labor and the Production of Policy and Political Culture; K.Coulter The Work of Being Governed: From the Welfare State to the 'Big Society' in Britain; S.B.Hyatt The Will To End Hunger in the Age of Security: Food Security, National Security and Community-Based Food Security in the United States; D.V.Fazzino II The Work of Governing; J.Clarke
