Introduction: Reframing social policy analysis / Catherine McDonald and Greg Marston -- Governmentality and powers of life and death / Mitchell Dean -- Global governance and local policy partnerships / Wendy Larner -- The politics of marginal space / Jorgan Elm-Larsen -- Consumerism and the remaking of state-citzen relations in the UK / John Clarke -- The politics of subject formation : women's response to welfare reform in the United States and the Netherlands / Anna Korteweg -- Governing men and boys in public policy in Australia / Bob Pease -- Activating child and youth welfare : an example of the neo-social re-arrangement of German social policy / Fabian Kessl -- "The end of the passing past" : towards a polytemporal policy studies / Willian Walters -- Governing the mother : access to reproductive technologies / Jennifer Smith -- Segmentation and conditionality : technological reconfigurations in social policy / Paul Henman -- Conclusion: A conversation worth continuing? / Greg Marston and Catherine McDonald
