Prof Bob Jessop
Prof Bob Jessop
(B.A. Sociology; M.A.; Ph.D.)
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New Papers for Meetings in Japan
1 Globalization and the National State: Reflections on a Theme of
Poulantzas
2 Narrating the Future of the National Economy and the National
State? Remarks on Re-Mapping Regulation and Re-Inventing
Governance
3 Twenty Years of the Regulation Approach: Has it been worth it?
4 Survey Article: The Regulation Approach
5 The Communist Manifesto as an
Historical Document
6 L'Economia Integrale, Fordism, and
Post-Fordism
7 Report on My Stay in Japan
Address and Academic History
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r.jessop@lancaster.ac.ukSociology Department
Cartmel College Lancaster
University Lancaster, UK LA1 4YR
Tel: +44 1524 594192
Fax: +44 1524 594256
I studied sociology at Exeter
University - taught by my colleague John Hughes among others - and
then moved to the University of Cambridge to undertake doctoral
research in political sociology - where another colleague, John Urry,
was a fellow research student. After completing a study of British
political culture and writing a book on the sociological theory of
reform and revolution - the late '60s were heady days, I became a
Research Fellow in Social and Political Sciences at Downing College,
Cambridge. It was during my five years as a Research Fellow that I
first became interested in state theory and also helped to introduce
Alan Warde, also a long-standing faculty member at Lancaster, to the
delights of sociology. Another contemporary was Roger Penn, who is
our Reader in Economic Sociology. In 1975 I made my move to the
Department of Government at the University of Essex and began
teaching in the areas of political sociology, state theory, and
political economy. After fifteen years of exile in a political
science department I came to Lancaster University allegedly to
profess sociology once again. In fact I'm still doing much the same
as I did in political science, namely, attempting to be a theoretical
jack of all trades in the social sciences. In addition I have become
more involved in funded empirical research intended to test my
theoretical arguments.
I think my best work in the past
has been concerned with state theory and am particularly proud of my
book on Nicos Poulantzas. I have maintained my interest in political
economy. There are obvious connections between these interests,
(especially in issues such as Fordism and post-Fordism) and have
tried to continue my more empirical research into the political
economies of postwar Britain (under the rubric of 'from social
democracy to Thatcherism and beyond)'). My current research is
divided among three main areas: a) current changes in the capitalist
economy seen from both theoretical and empirical viewpoints, b) the
nature of 'societalization', i.e., the mechanisms and dynamic which
shape the constitution of interrelated institutional orders and help
to produce 'society effects'; and c) the restructuring of welfare
states in Britain, Scandinavia and Germany. For the last of these
topics I am largely based at Roskilde University during the academic
year 1997-8.
I enjoy teaching as well as
research and try to convey some of my enthusiasm for social
theorizing to my students. I see postgraduate studies as a
partnership between research student and supervisor and expect the
same commitment from my students that I try to give to them. Indeed
much of my past work on Thatcherism derives from many happy hours
spent in discussion with three co-authors who are good friends and,
in two cases, former students. A previous research project had a
former research student as co-director and the current welfare state
project does aswell. I would welcome further such opportunities to
engage in joint research in any of the three areas noted above or in
the general field of social and political theory.
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