Bob Jessop

Bob Jessop ( born March 3 1946) is a British Marxist economist, sociologist and political scientist. His research focus includes the theory of the state.

Life and work

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, political theory and political economy. Bob Jessop is since 1990 Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University.

His scientific and thematic focus is to analyze the capitalist state itself, as well as " the formative dynamics him of political transformation ." His involvement with the subject state dates back to the 1970s.

In theoretical terms to Jessop sets with regulation theory, the theories of Antonio Gramsci and Nicos Poulantzas and the discourse analysis and the theorem of autopoiesis in systems theory apart. In addition, his recourse is to considerations of Claus Offe, where Jessop builds the concept of strategic selection. He undertakes to keep trying these approaches with each other, thus refers not only to purely Marxist theory strands.

Jessops chief interest is to develop a " strategic- relational [n ] conception of capitalist socialization ". The project of development and application of the "strategic - relational approach" so far comprises five books, beginning with The Capitalist State. Marxist Theories and Methods published in 1982 Jessops not yet completed goal is that " Theoretically informed critical history of the changing political economy of post -war Britain to write " and thereby embed the change of the British state in a wide range of economic, political and socio- cultural context. The other publications on this subject are his work on Nicos Poulantzas, the band State Theory: Putting the Capitalist State in Its Place, and The future of the capitalist state.

Jessops After assessment, the development of so-called Keynesian Welfare National State towards the Schumpeterian workfare post- national regime had taken place as a result of the crisis of Fordism in Europe.

Jessop is an honorary doctor of the University of Roskilde. For her book, Beyond the Regulation Approach Putting Capitalist Economies In Their Place Jessop and his co-author Ngai -Ling Sum been awarded the 2006 Gunnar Myrdal Prize -.

Writings (selection )

Social Order, Reform, and Revolution. Macmillan, London 1972, ISBN 978-0333115411.

Traditionalism, Conservatism, and British Political Culture. Allen & Unwin, London 1974, ISBN 978-0043290170.

The Capitalist State: Marxist Theories and Methods. Blackwell, Oxford 1982, ISBN 978-0814741634.

Nicos Poulantzas: Marxist Theory and Political Strategy. Macmillan, London, 1985, ISBN 978-0333289297.

Thatcherism: a Tale of Two Nations. ( with Kevin Bonnett, Simon Bromley, Tom Ling ). Polity, Cambridge, 1988, ISBN 978-0745606699.

State Theory: Putting the Capitalist State in Its Place. Polity, Cambridge, 1990, ISBN 978-0745602905.

Strategic Choice and Path - Dependency in Post -Socialism: Institutional Dynamics in the Transformation Process. ( with Jerzy Hausner, Klaus Nielsen ). Edward Elgar, Aldershot 1995, ISBN 978-1858980454.

The future of the state. Denationalization, internationalization, renationalisation. ( with Joachim Hirsch, Nicos Poulantzas ). VSA, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 978-3879758289.

The future of the capitalist state. Polity, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 978-0745622736.

Beyond the regulation approach. Putting Capitalist Economies in Their Place. with Ngai -Ling Sum. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2007, ISBN 978-1845420376.

Capitalism, Regulation, State: Selected Writings. ( ed. by Bernd Roettger, Victor Rego Diaz ). Argument, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3886193325.

State Power: A Strategic - Relational Approach. Polity, Cambridge, 2006, ISBN 978-0745633206.

Towards A Cultural Political Economy. Putting Culture in its Place in Political Economy. with Ngai -Ling Sum. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2014, ISBN 978-1845420369.