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London: a city of humanism and power
In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, Band 25, Heft 5, S. 647-666
ISSN: 1743-8772
What is the decentered state?
In: Public policy and administration: PPA, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 3-21
ISSN: 1749-4192
This article provides an introduction to discussions and empirical studies of the decentered state. The first section traces the historical origins of the concept of the decentered state. Group theory and interorganizational theory drew attention to the role of diverse actors in policymaking. The study of policy networks explored these actors and their relationships. The concept of the hollow state arose to describe a state made up of proliferating networks. Finally, postfoundationalists amended these earlier ideas by insisting that the state should not be reified. There are, then, at least three different versions of the decentered state—the pluralist state, the hollow state, and the stateless state. The second section shows how the postfoundationalism of decentered theory transforms the earlier debates about network governance and pluralist democracy. The final section suggests that decentered theory privileges empirical studies of the stateless state and in particular of narratives, rationalities, and resistance.
What Is Radical Historicism?
In: Philosophy of the social sciences: an international journal = Philosophie des sciences sociales, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 258-265
ISSN: 1552-7441
This article responds to Stephen Turner's discussion of my article, "Historicism and Critique." I emphasize that radical historicism consists of substantive philosophical commitments. One commitment is to a historicized epistemology that presents objective knowledge as a product of a comparison between rival webs of belief. Another commitment is to a historical ontology that presents aggregate concepts in the social sciences as inherently pragmatic. These substantive commitments provide a plausible basis for various forms of critique. They lead to analyses of genealogical and ideological critique that differ from appeals to genealogy as a kind of groundless skepticism toward, and problematization of, all substantive commitments.
Historicism and Critique
In: Philosophy of the social sciences: an international journal = Philosophie des sciences sociales, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 227-245
ISSN: 1552-7441
This paper argues that historicism can provide substantive philosophical grounds for critical theory and various modes of critique. Unlike the developmental historicism that dominated the nineteenth century, we start from a radical historicism tied to nominalism, contingency, and contestability. This radical historicism is compatible with a commitment to truth claims, including the truth of historicism and the truth of particular genealogies and other accounts of the world. Genealogy can be viewed as radical historicism in its critical guise, denaturalizing the ideas it targets. In addition, however, radical historicism provides possible grounds for both historical ontology and a revised version of ideology critique. Ideology is conceived here in relation to failures in consciousness itself rather than the alleged conflicts of a material base.
Socialist Historiography
In: History of European ideas, Band 40, Heft 5, S. 734-740
ISSN: 0191-6599
A Theory of Governance
This book explores philosophical, sociological, and democratic approaches to organization. Bevir offers a humanist and historicist perspective, arguing that people creatively make and remake organizations in particular contexts. By highlighting the meaningful and contingent nature of action, he reexamines the concepts of state, nation, network, and market, and he calls for democratic innovations.
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Legitimacy and the Administrative State: Ontology, History, and Democracy
In: Public administration quarterly, Band 37, Heft 4, S. 535-549
ISSN: 0734-9149
Reply to critics
In: Comparative European politics, Band 10, Heft 5, S. 634-641
ISSN: 1740-388X
Histories of analytic political philosophy
In: History of European ideas, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 243-248
ISSN: 0191-6599
Democratic governance: History, practice, reality and possibility
In: British politics, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 273-283
ISSN: 1746-9198
Governance and governmentality after neoliberalism
In: Policy & politics, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 457-471
ISSN: 1470-8442
This paper explores synergies between governance and governmentality, especially on neoliberalism. Governance and governmentality diffuse power and ruling. Scholars of governance offer a compelling account of changes in the state, but they might learn from governmentality to pay more attention to interpretation and discourses. Scholars of governmentality provide insights into modern power, but they might learn from governance to pay more attention to agency and heterogeneity. Scholars of governance might recognise the role of technologies of power in neoliberalism. Scholars of governmentality might grasp the way neoliberal marketisation has given way to networks and service integration.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS STORYTELLING
In: Public administration: an international journal, Band 89, Heft 1, S. 183-195
ISSN: 1467-9299
I'll tell you a storyAbout Jack a Nory,And now my story's begun;I'll tell you anotherOf Jack and his brother,And now my story is done.[Anon]
A great writer of fiction both creates a new, unique, individual world – through acts of imagination, through language that feels inevitable, through commanding forms – and responds to a world, the world the writer shares with other people but that is unknown or miss‐known by still more people, confined in their worlds. Call that history, society, what you will. The writers who matter most to us are those who enlarge our consciences and our sympathies and our knowledge.[Susan Sontag]
This paper elucidates the interpretive approach to public administration that Professor Rhodes and I have developed over the last ten years. It defends the importance of storytelling in governance. The early studies of governance often drew on modernist empiricism and policy network theory to argue that public sector reforms had created a differentiated polity. While this governance literature offered a compelling account of contemporary public administration, it rested on a modernist empiricism that proved vulnerable to questions such as those raised by rational choice theorists about its micro foundations. Professor Rhodes and I thus rejected modernist empiricism in favour of an emphasis on meanings and storytelling. Our interpretive approach rests on 'meaning holism'. It replaces naÏve empiricism with an anthropological epistemology based on comparing rival accounts. It rejects reified ontologies for recognition of the constructed nature of social reality. It moves away from formal explanations towards historicism. It provides a defence of public administration as storytelling.
Democratic Governance: A Genealogy
In: Local government studies, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 3-17
ISSN: 1743-9388
Democratic Governance:A Response to Commentaries
In: Administrative theory & praxis: ATP ; a quarterly journal of dialogue in public administration theory, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 478-485
ISSN: 1949-0461