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Book Review The Author(s), 2010. Reprints and permissions: http:// www.sagepub.co.uk/ journalsPermissions.nav 0952-0767 201000 26(4) 437–439 The Good News from Ghent Filip De Rynck, Bram Verschuere and Ellen Wayenberg (eds) (2009) Re-thinking the State: Critical Perspectives on the Citizen, Politics and Government in the 21st Century Mechelen, Belgium: KLUWER, ISBN: 978-9046524374, 904652437X (pbk), 187 pp. This is a Belgian book about a European, a global issue, which justifies the somewhat expansive title. Its twelve articles – by a range of mainly Ghent- based Belgian (and as far as I can tell) Flemish, or Dutch authors and including a thoughtful piece by the Leuven (i.e. Belgium)-based British scholar Chris Pollitt – is published, interestingly, and maybe slightly mysteriously, in English, and as far as one can tell it has been written directly in that tongue and not translated. Simply put, the issue is how can a state – or the society that that state rules – hold together when it lacks, as Talcott Parsons would have said, ‘ultimate common values’? Belgium has still one king, national government and administration in its national capital, but it is deeply divided by language and geography. As Kas Deprez puts it (cited in Van Parijs’s article, p. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Public Policy and Administration SAGE

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Public Policy and Administration , Volume 26 (4): 3 – Oct 1, 2011
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The Author(s), 2010. Reprints and permissions: http:// www.sagepub.co.uk/ journalsPermissions.nav 0952-0767 201000 26(4) 437–439 The Good News from Ghent Filip De Rynck, Bram Verschuere and Ellen Wayenberg (eds) (2009) Re-thinking the State: Critical Perspectives on the Citizen, Politics and Government in the 21st Century Mechelen, Belgium: KLUWER, ISBN: 978-9046524374, 904652437X (pbk), 187 pp. This is a Belgian book about a European, a global issue, which justifies the somewhat expansive title. Its twelve articles – by a range of mainly Ghent- based Belgian (and as far as I can tell) Flemish, or Dutch authors and including a thoughtful piece by the Leuven (i.e. Belgium)-based British scholar Chris Pollitt – is published, interestingly, and maybe slightly mysteriously, in English, and as far as one can tell it has been written directly in that tongue and not translated. Simply put, the issue is how can a state – or the society that that state rules – hold together when it lacks, as Talcott Parsons would have said, ‘ultimate common values’? Belgium has still one king, national government and administration in its national capital, but it is deeply divided by language and geography. As Kas Deprez puts it (cited in Van Parijs’s article, p.

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