Bob Jessop

Bob Jessop FAcSS (born 3 March 1946) is a British academic who has published extensively on state theory and political economy.

This means that the state is not something with an essential, fixed property, such as a neutral coordinator of different social interests, an autonomous corporate actor with its own bureaucratic goals and interests, or the "executive committee of the bourgeoisie", as often described by pluralists, elitists/statists, and conventional Marxists, respectively.

One of these apparatuses is state projects, which include a mechanism that Jessop calls structural selectivity.

[1] However, there is a strategic limit to this variation, imposed by the given balance of forces at specific time and space.

This approach is called the "strategic-relational approach" and can be considered as a creative extension and development of Marx's concept of capital not as a thing but as a social relation and of Antonio Gramsci's and Nicos Poulantzas's concept of the state as a social relation, something more than narrow political society.