Bentham and Bureaucracy

L. J. Hume

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511608971

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.

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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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List of Abbreviations
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1 - Introduction
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2 - Government in eighteenth-century thought
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3 - The foundations of Bentham's thought: the Comment, the Fragment, the Introduction and Of Laws in General
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4 - Further explorations in jurisprudence
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5 - From principles to practice: the Panopticon and its companions
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6 - From the Panopticon to the Constitutional Code
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7 - The Constitutional Code and Bentham's theory of government
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8 - Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xi

List of Abbreviations
pp xii-xii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-16

2 - Government in eighteenth-century thought
pp 17-54

3 - The foundations of Bentham's thought: the Comment, the Fragment, the Introduction and Of Laws in General
pp 55-86

4 - Further explorations in jurisprudence
pp 87-109

5 - From principles to practice: the Panopticon and its companions
pp 110-164

6 - From the Panopticon to the Constitutional Code
pp 165-208

7 - The Constitutional Code and Bentham's theory of government
pp 209-237

8 - Conclusion
pp 238-258

Notes
pp 259-302

Bibliography
pp 303-310

Index
pp 311-320

Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
pp 321-322

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