TY - BOOK AU - McLean,Janet TI - Searching for the state in British legal thought : competing conceptions of the public sphere T2 - Cambridge studies in constitutional law SN - 9781107022485 AV - KD640 .M39 2012 U1 - 320.10941 22 PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Law KW - Great Britain KW - Philosophy KW - State, The KW - Political aspects KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-328) and index; 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 ER -