Introduction / Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright
The rationale of the minimal state / Norman Barry
Neo-liberalism and the theory of the state: from Wohlfahrtsstaat to Rechtsstaat / Raymond Plant
Re-stating politics, re-politicising the state: neo-liberalism, economic imperatives and the rise of the competition state / Colin Hay
False friend: the state and the public domain / David Marquand
Leviathan lite / David Walker
The state and the market / John Kay
Creating the public good / Charles Leadbeater
The state and innovations in economic governance / Colin Crouch
New localism, progressive politics and democracy / Gerry Stoker
Back to the centre? Rebuilding the state / B. Guy Peters
Reclaiming "the public" through the people / Hilary Wainwright.
