Bob Jessop

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Bob Jessop (Berlin 2012)

Bob Jessop (born March 3, 1946 ) is a British Marxist economist , sociologist and political scientist . State theory is one of his scientific focuses .

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Jessop studied sociology at the University of Exeter . He then became a Research Fellow in Social and Political Sciences at Downing College , Cambridge . From 1975 he taught at the University of Essex in the subjects of political sociology , state theory and political economy . Bob Jessop has been Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University since 1990 .

His scientific and thematic focus is to analyze the capitalist state as such and "the dynamics of political transformation that shape it". His preoccupation with the state goes back to the 1970s.

In theoretical terms, Jessop deals with the regulation theory , the theories of Nicos Poulantzas and Antonio Gramsci as well as discourse analysis and the theorem of autopoiesis from systems theory. In addition, there is his recourse to the ideas of Claus Offe , on which Jessop builds the concept of strategic selection. He tries to connect these approaches with each other, so does not only refer to purely Marxist strands of theory.

Jessop's overriding interest is the development of a "strategic-relational [n] conception of capitalist socialization". The project of developing and applying the “strategic-relational approach” has so far comprised five books, starting with The Capitalist State: Marxist Theories and Methods published in 1982. Jessop's unfinished goal is to present the “theoretically informed critical history of the changing political economy of post-war Britain ”and thereby embed the change in the British state in a broad economic, political and socio-cultural context. The other publications on this topic are his work on Nicos Poulantzas, the band State Theory: Putting the Capitalist State in Its Place and The future of the capitalist state .

According to Jessop, the development from the so-called Keynesian Welfare National State to the Schumpeterian Workfare Postnational Regime took place in Europe as a result of the crisis of Fordism.

Jessop's research culminates in the development of a cultural political economy, the outlines of which he works out together with Ngai-Ling Sum .

Jessop received an honorary doctorate from Roskilde University in 1997 . For their book Beyond the Regulation Approach Putting Capitalist Economies in their Place , Jessop and his co-author Ngai-Ling Sum were awarded the Gunnar Myrdal Prize in 2006.

Fonts (selection)

  • Traditionalism, Conservatism, and British Political Culture . Allen & Unwin, London 1974, ISBN 978-0-04-329017-0 .
  • Nicos Poulantzas: Marxist Theory and Political Strategy . Macmillan, London 1985, ISBN 978-0-333-28929-7 .
  • Thatcherism: a Tale of Two Nations . (with Kevin Bonnett, Simon Bromley, Tom Ling). Polity, Cambridge 1988, ISBN 978-0-7456-0669-9 .
  • State Theory: Putting the Capitalist State in Its Place . Polity, Cambridge 1990, ISBN 978-0-7456-0290-5 .
  • Strategic Choice and Path-Dependency in Post-Socialism: Institutional Dynamics in the Transformation Process . (with Jerzy Hausner , Klaus Nielsen). Edward Elgar, Aldershot 1995, ISBN 978-1-85898-045-4 .
  • Beyond the Regulation Approach. Putting Capitalist Economies in their Place . with Ngai-Ling Sum. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2007, ISBN 978-1-84542-037-6 .
  • Capitalism, Regulation, State: Selected Writings . (Ed. by Bernd Röttger, Victor Rego Diaz). Argument, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88619-332-5 .
  • Towards A Cultural Political Economy. Putting Culture in its Place in Political Economy . with Ngai-Ling Sum. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2014, ISBN 978-1-84542-036-9 .
  • The State. Past, present, future . Polity, Cambridge 2016, ISBN 978-0-7456-3305-3 .
  • together with Henk Overbeek (Ed.): Transnational Capital and Class Fractions: The Amsterdam School Perspective Reconsidered , New York 2018, ISBN 978-08153-6960-8 .
  • together with Karim Kniou (Ed.): The Pedagogy of Economic, Political and Social Crises: Dynamics, Construals and Lessons , New York 2018, ISBN 978-1138-06250-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Bieling : The political theory of Neo-Marxism: Bob Jessop, in: Politische Theorien der Gegenwart II, 2nd ed., Ed. v. André Brodocz / Gary S. Schaal , Opladen / Farmington Hills, p. 380.
  2. ↑ See: Bob Jessop: State Power. A Strategic-Relational Approach, Cambridge 2007, p. 12.
  3. ↑ See: Hans-Jürgen Bieling: The political theory of Neo-Marxism, p. 386.
  4. ↑ See: Hans-Jürgen Bieling: The political theory of Neo-Marxism, p. 380
  5. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Bieling: The political theory of Neo-Marxism, p. 381.
  6. ^ Bob Jessop: State Power, p. 12.
  7. ^ Bob Jessop: State Power, pp. 12-15.
  8. ↑ See: Hans-Jürgen Bieling: The political theory of Neo-Marxism, p. 389.

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SURNAME Jessop, Bob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Marxist, sociologist, political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1946