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FRONT COVER -- LOOKING FOR CONSENSUS?: CIVIL SOCIETY, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND CRISES FOR PUBLIC MANAGEMENT -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: FROM AUSTERITY TO ACCEPTANCE? -- SETTING THE SCENE -- CHANGES AND MOVEMENTS: ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL -- STRUCTURE OF THE COLLECTION -- PART ONE: THE PUBLIC POLICY CONTEXT: INTERNATIONAL TRENDS -- ''WHO''S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STATE WE''RE IN?'' GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SECTOR: ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY IN AN ERA OF CRISIS AND AUSTERITY -- INTRODUCTION -- POLICY PUNCTUATION POST-1970S FROM GOVERNMENTS AND BUREAUCRATS TO MARKETS, CONTRACTS AND PERFORMANCE -- THE DOWNFALL NEO-LIBERAL FAILURE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND: FAULT LINES IN ETHICAL GOVERNANCE? -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- RETHINKING URBAN REGENERATION? INSIGHTS INTO THE FUTURE THROUGH USE OF THE STRATEGIC-RELATIONAL APPROACH -- INTRODUCTION -- PROBLEMATIZING URBAN REGENERATION, THE STATE AND LOCAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL FORCES -- THE SRA AS A TOOL TO EXPLORE THE FUTURE NATURE OF URBAN REGENERATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- THE RETREAT OF THE STATE: THE CHALLENGES FACED BY REGENERATION MANAGERS IN A CLIMATE OF AUSTERITY -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKDROP -- STATE-LED REGENERATION: A BRIEF REVIEW OF CONCEPTUAL DEBATES -- LABOUR’S REGENERATION FRAMEWORK -- THE COALITION’S REGENERATION TOOLKIT -- CONCLUSION: CHALLENGES FACING REGENERATION MANAGERS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART TWO: CIVIL SOCIETY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: CONSENSUS OR CRISIS? -- THE STATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN EGYPT POST THE ARAB SPRING -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- RESIST, REFUSE, OCCUPY -- INTRODUCTION -- NEOLIBERALISM AS NORM – THE EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION -- THE STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE OF NEOLIBERALISM -- CRISIS AS SHOCK AND OPPORTUNITY -- OCCUPY THE CRISIS? -- CONCLUSION: FROM OCCUPY THE CITY TO RECONSTRUCTING THE COMMONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- CIVIL SOCIETY, THE LEFT AND COMMUNITY ORGANISING: TOWARDS A PROGRESSIVE POLITICS -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PART THREE: REVIEW AND REFLECTION -- ''THE WAY WE DO THINGS AROUND HERE'': PERSONAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS OF THE INFLUENCE OF INTER-DISCIPLINARY IDENTITY ON EFFECTIVE KNOWLEDGE LEADERSHIP FOR TACKLING INEQUALITIES -- INTRODUCTION -- REFLEXIVITY, INTER-DISCIPLINARITY AND POLICY TO TACKLE INEQUALITY -- THE HEALTH SCIENCES: INEQUALITY AS CONCEPTUAL CONFUSION -- THE POLICY SCIENCES – INEQUALITY AS A METAPHOR -- CRITICAL GEOGRAPHY: INEQUALITY AS A CONTRADICTION -- PERSONAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFLEXIVITY OF THE INFLUENCE OF INTER-DISCIPLINARY IDENTITY ON KNOWLEDGE LEADERSHIP FOR TACKLING INEQUALITIES -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- CONCLUSION: POLICY AND PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS -- REVISITING THE CONTEXT AND RATIONALE FOR THIS COLLECTION -- CONVENTIONAL STRATEGIES ARE UNLIKELY TO BE APPROPRIATE -- GLOBAL CRISES -- LONG-TERM NATURE OF THE CHANGES -- .