| Titre | Pour une sociologie historique des sciences de gouvernement. | |
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| Auteur | Olivier Ihl | |
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Revue | Revue française d'administration publique |
| Numéro | no 102, avril-juin 2002 La mémoire de l'administration | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | La mémoire de l'administration Acteurs et mémoires d'acteurs |
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| Résumé anglais |
For a Historical Sociology of Governmental Sciences.
How did state action become an object of scientific enquiry ? Any answer to such a
question implies recognition of the fact that the management of both human beings and
systems is carried out and legitimized thanks to specialized skills. Since the advent in
Europe of absolute monarchies and the development of administrations with a monopoly
over all government functions, power has been legitimized by science, rather than by
secrecy. As a result, scientists, administrators, philanthropists, writers, magistrates and
many others put their knowledge at the service of the “governmental sciences”. Under
the pretext of introducing reforms, they impose new notions of rationality on state action
and thus contribute to changing the way the administration functions. To explain the
emergence of “State engineering” through the institutionalizing of these “disciplines”,
we must use two intersecting viewpoints, the first focusing on the job of rationalizing the
conditions of state intervention, and the second on the practices that justify and create the
need for these specialized “skills”. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=RFAP_102_0229 |
