Dean, Mitchell M.

Mitchell Dean is Professor of Public Governance, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His previous books include "Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society" (1999, revised second edition, SAGE, 2010), "The Constitution of Poverty: Toward a Genealogy of Liberal Governance" (Routledge, 1991/2012), "Critical and Effective Histories: Foucault's Methods and Historical Sociology" (Routledge, 1994), and "Governing Societies: Political Perspectives on Domestic and International Rule" (Open University Press, 2007).

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