By assembling original, ethnographically-grounded research in legislatures, executives, and bureaucracies, this volume illuminates and unpacks the structures, practices, and values of government actors in local, regional, and national contexts.

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KIM CLARK University of Western Ontario, Canada JOHN CLARKE The Open University DAVID FAZZINO University of Alaska at Fairbanks, USA ILANA GERSHON Indiana University, USA SUSAN BRIN HYATT Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, USA TARA SCHWEGLER Independent scholar ALAN SMART University of Calgary, Canada JOSEPHINE SMART University of Calgary, Canada

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Government Matters: Intellectual Labor and the Work of Governing; K.Coulter & W.R.Schumann Navigating the Illegible State: Governmentality and Political Process; T.A.Schwegler A Project of Governing and its Contradictions: Maternal-Infant Care in Highland Ecuador; K.Clark Governing Beef: Program Implementation, Unintended Consequences and BSE Control in Alberta; A.Smart & J.Smart Selling Clear Red Water: The Identity Politics of Governing in the National Assembly for Wales; W.R.Schumann Legislative Authenticity and the Politics of Recognition: Being a M?ori Member of the New Zealand Parliament; I.Gershon Gendering Government: Political Labor and the Production of Policy and Political Culture; K.Coulter The Work of Being Governed: From the Welfare State to the 'Big Society' in Britain; S.B.Hyatt The Will To End Hunger in the Age of Security: Food Security, National Security and Community-Based Food Security in the United States; D.V.Fazzino II The Work of Governing; J.Clarke