Author: Felix Selgert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110599309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The bureaucracy’s commitment to the public good and predictable decision making processes is an important prerequisite of economic growth. There are, however, only few studies that ask how such an efficient bureaucracy was established. The main objective of this book is to close this gap by exploring the transformation of a rent-seeking bureaucracy into a modern Weberian administration in the Grand-Duchy of Baden during the first half of the 19th century. In doing so, the study asks how rules and regulations that governed employment dismissal, promotion and remuneration of bureaucrats shaped the latter’s incentives to commit to the public good and predictable decision making processes. The book provides a detailed case study of local bureaucrats, called district magistrates (Amtmänner) in the German state of Baden during the late 18th and the first half of the 19th century. District magistrates were a focal group since they managed daily administrative tasks and provided justice at the local level. Binding district magistrates’ decision making processes to clear-cut rules and making them more predictable was therefore a crucial complement to the technological and cultural changes that brought about the industrial revolution.
Baden and the Modern State
Author: Felix Selgert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110599309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The bureaucracy’s commitment to the public good and predictable decision making processes is an important prerequisite of economic growth. There are, however, only few studies that ask how such an efficient bureaucracy was established. The main objective of this book is to close this gap by exploring the transformation of a rent-seeking bureaucracy into a modern Weberian administration in the Grand-Duchy of Baden during the first half of the 19th century. In doing so, the study asks how rules and regulations that governed employment dismissal, promotion and remuneration of bureaucrats shaped the latter’s incentives to commit to the public good and predictable decision making processes. The book provides a detailed case study of local bureaucrats, called district magistrates (Amtmänner) in the German state of Baden during the late 18th and the first half of the 19th century. District magistrates were a focal group since they managed daily administrative tasks and provided justice at the local level. Binding district magistrates’ decision making processes to clear-cut rules and making them more predictable was therefore a crucial complement to the technological and cultural changes that brought about the industrial revolution.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110599309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The bureaucracy’s commitment to the public good and predictable decision making processes is an important prerequisite of economic growth. There are, however, only few studies that ask how such an efficient bureaucracy was established. The main objective of this book is to close this gap by exploring the transformation of a rent-seeking bureaucracy into a modern Weberian administration in the Grand-Duchy of Baden during the first half of the 19th century. In doing so, the study asks how rules and regulations that governed employment dismissal, promotion and remuneration of bureaucrats shaped the latter’s incentives to commit to the public good and predictable decision making processes. The book provides a detailed case study of local bureaucrats, called district magistrates (Amtmänner) in the German state of Baden during the late 18th and the first half of the 19th century. District magistrates were a focal group since they managed daily administrative tasks and provided justice at the local level. Binding district magistrates’ decision making processes to clear-cut rules and making them more predictable was therefore a crucial complement to the technological and cultural changes that brought about the industrial revolution.
Science, Medicine, and the State in Germany
Author: Arleen Tuchman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195080476
Category : Baden
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This superb account of the development of scientific research in the state of Baden places the growth of science in nineteenth century Germany within a broad social and economic context. The book analyses the progress of scientific research and its institutionalization in the state university system. Focusing on the experimental sciences, the book explores the introduction of the research ethic into the university medical curriculum, and the process by which laboratory science came to be an essential pedagogical tool in the education of future citizens of the state. The social and economic changes that ultimately transformed Germany into a modern industrial state are also considered. It was within this setting that laboratory training, once considered inappropriate for university studies, grew in status, and that dissatisfaction with the overly theoretical education traditionally offered by the universities began to increase. Thus, much like computers today, the scientific method in the nineteenth century came to represent an instrument for teaching not only specific skills but also a particular way of approaching, analyzing, and solving the problems of an industrializing economy. This compelling volume will be of interest to historians of science, medicine, and European studies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195080476
Category : Baden
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This superb account of the development of scientific research in the state of Baden places the growth of science in nineteenth century Germany within a broad social and economic context. The book analyses the progress of scientific research and its institutionalization in the state university system. Focusing on the experimental sciences, the book explores the introduction of the research ethic into the university medical curriculum, and the process by which laboratory science came to be an essential pedagogical tool in the education of future citizens of the state. The social and economic changes that ultimately transformed Germany into a modern industrial state are also considered. It was within this setting that laboratory training, once considered inappropriate for university studies, grew in status, and that dissatisfaction with the overly theoretical education traditionally offered by the universities began to increase. Thus, much like computers today, the scientific method in the nineteenth century came to represent an instrument for teaching not only specific skills but also a particular way of approaching, analyzing, and solving the problems of an industrializing economy. This compelling volume will be of interest to historians of science, medicine, and European studies.
The Politics of Power
Author: Kenneth H. Marcus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Global Political Economy and the Modern State System
Author: Tobias Ten Brink
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004262229
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In Global Political Economy and the Modern State System Tobias ten Brink contributes to an understanding of the modern state system, its conflicts, and its transformation. In contrast to the political attractiveness of optimistic theoretical approaches to globalisation, this book demonstrates how an analytical approach rooted in Global Political Economy (GPE) helps to explain both the tendencies towards integration and towards rivalry in international relations. By way of a historical reconstruction of different ‘world order’ phases in the twentieth century, ten Brink analyses multiple, phase-specific variations of socioeconomic and geopolitical conflicts that are significant for the modern capitalist world system. Revised edition of Geopolitik. Geschichte und Gegenwart kapitalistischer Staatenkonkurrenz, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster, 2008.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004262229
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In Global Political Economy and the Modern State System Tobias ten Brink contributes to an understanding of the modern state system, its conflicts, and its transformation. In contrast to the political attractiveness of optimistic theoretical approaches to globalisation, this book demonstrates how an analytical approach rooted in Global Political Economy (GPE) helps to explain both the tendencies towards integration and towards rivalry in international relations. By way of a historical reconstruction of different ‘world order’ phases in the twentieth century, ten Brink analyses multiple, phase-specific variations of socioeconomic and geopolitical conflicts that are significant for the modern capitalist world system. Revised edition of Geopolitik. Geschichte und Gegenwart kapitalistischer Staatenkonkurrenz, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster, 2008.
Structuring the State
Author: Daniel Ziblatt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691121673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This study explores the following puzzle: Upon national unification, why was Germany formed as a federal state and Italy a unitary state? Ziblatt's answer to this question will be of interest to scholars of international relations, comparative politics, political development, and political and economic history.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691121673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This study explores the following puzzle: Upon national unification, why was Germany formed as a federal state and Italy a unitary state? Ziblatt's answer to this question will be of interest to scholars of international relations, comparative politics, political development, and political and economic history.
Max Weber's Theory of the Modern State
Author: A. Anter
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137364904
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Andreas Anter reconstructs Max Weber's theory of the modern state, showing its significance to contemporary political science. He reveals the ambivalence of Weber's political thought: the oscillation between an étatiste position, mainly oriented to the reason of state, and an individualistic one, focussed on the freedom of individuals
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137364904
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Andreas Anter reconstructs Max Weber's theory of the modern state, showing its significance to contemporary political science. He reveals the ambivalence of Weber's political thought: the oscillation between an étatiste position, mainly oriented to the reason of state, and an individualistic one, focussed on the freedom of individuals
The Modern State in Relation to Society and the Individual
Author: Paul Leroy-Beaulieu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Contains a translation of the first three books of the author's "L'EÌ tat moderne et ses fonctions"."Translated by A.C. Morant."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Contains a translation of the first three books of the author's "L'EÌ tat moderne et ses fonctions"."Translated by A.C. Morant."
Summer in Baden-Baden
Author: Leonid Tsypkin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The narrator recounts his journey to Leningrad as the story of the 1867 travels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his new wife, Anna Grigoryevna, also unfolds.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The narrator recounts his journey to Leningrad as the story of the 1867 travels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his new wife, Anna Grigoryevna, also unfolds.
The Modern State and Its Study
Author: Walter Julius Michael Kickert
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
International contributors present an overview of the development and state of the art of administrative sciences in various European countries and the US. They analyze how particular national approaches to the study of administration influence and are influenced by various national institutions, and make comparisons between countries and more generally between Europe and US public administration. Kickert teaches public management at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Stillman teaches public administration at the University of Colorado. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
International contributors present an overview of the development and state of the art of administrative sciences in various European countries and the US. They analyze how particular national approaches to the study of administration influence and are influenced by various national institutions, and make comparisons between countries and more generally between Europe and US public administration. Kickert teaches public management at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Stillman teaches public administration at the University of Colorado. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Dimensions of Dignity
Author: Jacob Weinrib
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107084288
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Offers a public law theory that elaborates the idea of human dignity to illuminate and justify innovations in constitutional practice.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107084288
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Offers a public law theory that elaborates the idea of human dignity to illuminate and justify innovations in constitutional practice.