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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
90
Citations
57362
World Ranking
189
National Ranking
31

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Bob Jessop is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and has focused their research primarily within the Social Sciences, contributing a total of 25 publications. Their work spans several subfields, notably Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Finance, and Public Administration.

Their research topics encompass Political Economy and Marxism, Political Theory and Gramsci, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Foucault, Power, and Ethics, Social Sciences and Governance, Political and Economic History of the UK and US, and Social Policy and Reform Studies.

Jessop has contributed to multiple publication venues including the Journal of Critical Realism, Policy Press eBooks, International Relations, PROKLA Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft, and Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks.

Among recent scholarly articles, Jessop's work includes:

  • The strategic-relational approach, realism and the state: from regulation theory to neoliberalism via Marx and Poulantzas, an interview with Bob Jessop (2021, Journal of Critical Realism)
  • Internal relations in global capitalism (2021, International Relations)
  • Mute compulsion: a Marxist theory of the economic power of capital (2025, Journal of Critical Realism)
  • Alex Demirovic über das Staatsverständnis von Poulantzas als gesellschaftliches Verhältnis (2022, PROKLA Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft)
  • Index (2020, Policy Press eBooks)

Jessop has worked with a number of frequent co-authors including Ngai-Ling Sum, Jamie Morgan, Enrique Dussel, Álvaro García Linera, and Atilio Borón.

In terms of book publications, Jessop has multiple titles published primarily by Policy Press, including several editions of Putting Civil Society in Its Place (2020). Other book publishers include Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) eBooks and Bristol University Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • The Future of the Capitalist State

    Bob Jessop

  • State Theory: Putting the Capitalist State in Its Place

    Bob Jessop

  • State/Space:A Reader

    Neil Brenner;Bob Jessop;Martin Jones;Gordon MacLeod

  • Habermas and the Public Sphere.

    Bob Jessop;Craig Calhoun

  • Liberalism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Governance: A State‐Theoretical Perspective

    Bob Jessop

  • The rise of governance and the risks of failure: the case of economic development

    Bob Jessop

  • The capitalist state

    Leslie Guliasi;Bob Jessop

  • Theorizing Sociospatial Relations

    Bob Jessop;Neil Brenner;Martin Russell Jones

  • Post‐Fordism and the State

    Bob Jessop

  • Towards a Schumpeterian Workfare State? Preliminary Remarks on Post-Fordist Political Economy

    Bob Jessop

  • The regulation approach, governance and post-Fordism: alternative perspectives on economic and political change?

    Bob Jessop

  • Institutional re(turns) and the strategic-relational approach.

    Bob Jessop

  • Governance and Metagovernance: On Reflexivity, Requisite Variety, and Requisite Irony.

    Bob Jessop

  • The Crisis of the National Spatio-Temporal Fix and the Tendential Ecological Dominance of Globalizing Capitalism

    Bob Jessop

  • Towards a Cultural Political Economy: Putting Culture in its Place in Political Economy

    Ngai-Ling Sum;Bob Jessop

  • Critical Semiotic Analysis and Cultural Political Economy.

    Bob Jessop

  • The transition to post-Fordism and the Schumpeterian workfare state

    Bob Jessop

  • An Entrepreneurial City in Action: Hong Kong's Emerging Strategies in and for (Inter)Urban Competition

    Bob Jessop;Ngai-Ling Sum

  • State Power: A Strategic-Relational Approach

    Bob Jessop

  • The Dynamics of Partnership and Governance Failure.

    Bob Jessop

  • State Theory: Putting Capitalist States in their Place

    Bob Jessop

  • The Changing Governance of Welfare: Recent Trends in its Primary Functions, Scale, and Modes of Coordination.

    Bob Jessop

  • Capitalism and its future: remarks on regulation, government and governance

    Bob Jessop

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil Brenner
Neil Brenner University of Chicago
Norman Fairclough
Norman Fairclough Lancaster University
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
Ruth Wodak
Ruth Wodak Lancaster University
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Andrew Sayer
Andrew Sayer Lancaster University
Craig Calhoun
Craig Calhoun Arizona State University

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