Histories of analytic political philosophy
In: History of European ideas, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 243-249
ISSN: 0191-6599
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In: History of European ideas, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 243-249
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 89, Heft 1, S. 183-196
ISSN: 0033-3298
In: Local government studies, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 3-18
ISSN: 0300-3930
In: Iride: filosofia e discussione pubblica, Band 24, Heft 62, S. 27-42
ISSN: 1122-7893
In: European journal of social theory, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 423-441
ISSN: 1461-7137
Foucault introduced the concept 'governmentality' to refer to the conduct of conduct, and especially the technologies that govern individuals. He adopted the concept after his shift from structuralist archaeology to historicist genealogy. But some commentators suggest governmentality remains entangled with structuralist themes. This article offers a resolutely genealogical theory of govermentality that: echoes Foucault on genealogy, critique, and technologies of power; suggests resolutions to problems in Foucault's work; introduces concepts that are clearly historicist, not structuralist; and opens new areas of empirical research. The resulting genealogical theory of governmentality emphasizes nominalism, contingency, situated agency, and historicist explanations referring to traditions and dilemmas. It decenters governance by highlighting diverse elite narratives, technologies of power, and traditions of popular resistance.
Foucault introduced the concept "governmentality" to refer to the conduct of conduct, and the technologies that govern individuals. While he adopted the concept after his shift from archaeological to genealogical studies, commentators argue his work on governmentality and that of his followers appears to remain entangled with structuralist themes more redolent of his archaeologies. This paper thus offers a type of conceptual clarification. The paper provides a resolutely genealogical approach to govermentality that: echoes Foucault on genealogy, power/knowledge, and technologies of power; suggests ways of resolving problems in Foucault's work; introduces concepts that are clearly historicist, not structuralist; and opens new areas of empirical research.
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In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 436-456
ISSN: 1477-7053
AbstractThe article offers an interpretive approach to understanding Jim Bulpitt'sTerritory and Power in the United Kingdom. The first two parts interpret Bulpitt's text by locating it respectively in its historical and contemporaneous contexts. It argues thatTerritory and Powerbelongs in a broader movement to rethink the state in a way that accommodates the rise of new behavioural topics.Territory and Poweralso defends modernist empiricist approaches to institutions and other mid-level topics against the positivism and general theories of behaviouralism. The final part points to an interpretive approach to the state as an alternative to the behaviouralism and institutionalism that lurk behind Bulpitt's ideas. A thoroughly interpretive approach would decentre territory and power, revealing them to be contingent and shifting products of struggles over meanings.
In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 436-457
ISSN: 0017-257X
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of comparative politics, Band 62, Heft 3, S. 493-498
ISSN: 1460-2482
In: Italian Political Science Review: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 417-440
ISSN: 0048-8402
This paper offers a constructivist theory of governance. It begins by challenging rational choice and institutionalist accounts for neglecting meanings. If we are to take meanings seriously, we need to allow for the constructed nature of governance -- governance depends on concepts that are themselves in part products of wider webs of belief. The paper then argues, first, that constructivism is compatible with various forms of realism, and, second, that constructivism is strengthened by recognition of situated agency. Finally, the paper identifies the kind of aggregate concepts associated with this type of constructivism. Adapted from the source document.
In: Italian Political Science Review: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 417-441
ISSN: 0048-8402
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Band 62, Heft 3, S. 493-499
ISSN: 0031-2290
In: Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 61, Issue 4, pp. 559-577, 2008, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsn025
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In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Band 61, Heft 4, S. 559-577
ISSN: 0031-2290
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of comparative politics, Band 61, Heft 4, S. 559-577
ISSN: 1460-2482