Low Price Guarantee
We Take School POs
Bentham and Bureaucracy Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Hume, L. J. (Author)

View larger image

ISBN: 052152606X     ISBN-13: 9780521526067
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $46.54  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2004
Qty:

Annotation: Most accounts of Jeremy Bentham (1748???1832) deal with him as a prophet of either utilitarianism or of liberal democracy. This book discusses a less familiar but very important aspect of his political thought: his theory of how government institutions should be organised in order to function as efficient and yet responsive guardians of the community??'s interests. It thus focuses on his programme for he executive and judicial branches of government rather than for the legislature and the electorate. Dr Hume suggests that eighteenth-century political thought was richer in ideas about government that has usually been allowed, but that Bentham??'s special qualities of mind enabled him to widen and deepen those ideas much further than his contemporaries could have foreseen.

Click for more in this series: Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - General
Dewey: 320.109
Series: Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.94 lbs) 336 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Most accounts of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) deal with him as a prophet of either utilitarianism or of liberal democracy. This book discusses a less familiar but very important aspect of his political thought: his theory of how government institutions should be organised in order to function as efficient and yet responsive guardians of the community's interests. It thus focuses on his programme for he executive and judicial branches of government rather than for the legislature and the electorate. Dr Hume suggests that eighteenth-century political thought was richer in ideas about government that has usually been allowed, but that Bentham's special qualities of mind enabled him to widen and deepen those ideas much further than his contemporaries could have foreseen.
 
Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review
 
To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First!