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Bob Jessop  

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  • Bob Jessop is a British social theorist, state theorist, and political economist. He addresses five problems with major implications for power: (1) the agency-structure problem, which he interprets through his strategic-relational approach; (2) the relative autonomy of the capitalist type of state and its transformation in the postwar world; (3) complexity and complexity reduction and their implications for the coordination of complex relations of interdependence—reflected in problems of governance, governance failure, meta-governance, and its failure; (4) spatiotemporal dynamics in general and their implications for the temporal sovereignty of the state and democratic politics; and (5) the semiotic dimensions of social life and their centrality to hegemonic struggles. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Jessop, Bob]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-G0L6ZB68-F

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