The Well-Ordered Police State and the Development of Modernity in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe: An Attempt at a Comparative Approach

Multi-level Governance: Conceptual challenges and case studies from Australia

“…21 Hindess (2005: 405-06); c.f. Raeff (1975). 22 A political a priori many of Foucault's followers forget; see also Walters and Haahr (2005); Walters (2011).…”

Multi-level Governance as Political Theory

“…21 Hindess (2005: 405-06); c.f. Raeff (1975). 22 A political a priori many of Foucault's followers forget; see also Walters and Haahr (2005); Walters (2011).…”

Mechanics of patronage: Christopher Polhem and the changing regimes of the Swedish state (1680-1750)

“…In early modern Europe, the power of machines were used as metaphors, analogies and symbols, through which one could understand social forces and abstract entities at play in the world 14 . Mechanics and geometry were part of an authoritarian political order, where products of mechanical work, and the dominion of mechanici over craftsmen and nature alike, became a means of arguing for a centralist vision of society, the rule of God and the absolute monarch 15 . In return, the mechanical conception of political order legitimated certain ways of constructing machines, where ideal machines were perceived as autonomous and hierarchical 16 .…”