McLean, Janet, <br/><br/>
Searching for the state in British legal thought :  competing conceptions of the public sphere / 
Janet McLean. 
 - Cambridge ; New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2012. 
 - ix, 334 p. ; 
 - Cambridge studies in constitutional law .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-328) and index. 
<br/><br/>Searching for the state -- From state as official to state as machine : unifying political will -- Sovereign, state and corporation : political theory and analytical jurisprudence -- Civil society : the english fellowships, the state, and the origins of welfare -- The private life of the state : the crown and the public sphere -- Public law without a state : the new administrative justice -- No rights against the state : government wrong-doing and the common law -- Privatization, deregulation and reconceiving of the state -- Rights against the state. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107022485 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Law--Great Britain<br/>State, The<br/>Law--Great Britain.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>342.0242  / MCL.S