The Architecture Of Government

Author : Daniel Treisman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139466496
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Government written by Daniel Treisman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the days of Montesquieu and Jefferson, political decentralization has been seen as a force for better government and economic performance. It is thought to bring government 'closer to the people', nurture civic virtue, protect liberty, exploit local information, stimulate policy innovation, and alleviate ethnic tensions. Inspired by such arguments, and generously funded by the major development agencies, countries across the globe have been racing to devolve power to local governments. This book re-examines the arguments that underlie the modern faith in decentralization. Using logical analysis and formal modeling, and appealing to numerous examples, it shows that most are based on vague intuitions or partial views that do not withstand scrutiny. A review of empirical studies of decentralization finds these as inconclusive and mutually contradictory as the theories they set out to test.

Author : Duncan Bell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350103764
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Theory and Architecture written by Duncan Bell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can political theory teach us about architecture, and what can it learn from paying closer attention to architecture? The essays assembled in this volume begin from a common postulate: that architecture is not merely a backdrop to political life but a political force in its own right. Each in their own way, they aim to give countenance to that claim, and to show how our thinking about politics can be enriched by reflecting on the built environment. The collection advances four lines of inquiry, probing the connection between architecture and political regimes; examining how architecture can be constitutive of the ethical and political realm; uncovering how architecture is enmeshed in logics of governmentality and in the political economy of the city; and asking to what extent we can think of architecture-tributary as it is to the flows of capital-as a partially autonomous social force. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the salience of a range of political theoretical approaches for the analysis of architecture, and show that architecture deserves a place as an object of study in political theory, alongside institutions, laws, norms, practices, imaginaries, and discourses.

Author : Allan Greenberg
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Democracy written by Allan Greenberg and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centered on his intriguing synthesis of the American republic's architectural and democratic traditions, Allan Greenberg's essay moves across geography and through history as the renowned architect and scholar makes the case that America's architectural tradition and political ideals are deeply connected.At the core of the American democratic architectural tradition is the modest, single-family house, which gave rise to the statehouse, the courthouse, the firehouse, the schoolhouse, the jailhouse, and the President's house (as it was known before it became the White House).Generously illustrated and skillfully written, Architecture of Democracy traces a common line from the earliest colonial settlements to the Western frontier of the nineteenth century and today's ultramodern city centers. The volume will imbue in its readers a newfound appreciation for the democratic ideals that American architecture strives to express and uphold.

Author : Blake Emerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190682876
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Public's Law written by Blake Emerson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Yale University, 2016) issued under title: Between public law and public sphere: reconstructing the American Progressive theory of the administrative state.

Author : Jim Stembridge
Publisher : Coho Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780983029298
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty State Capitols written by Jim Stembridge and published by Coho Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State governments, headquartered in their iconic capitol buildings, have been governing continuously--and largely democratically, peacefully, and openly--for more than two centuries, a record difficult to match in the history of civilization. Fifty State Capitols shows how the architecture of state capitols contributes to the success of representative government.The formality, timelessness, and public grandeur of representative government are on public display at every one of America's fifty state capitols. Fifty State Capitols describes the majesty and stateliness of each state capitol's exterior form and selected interior details, in words and photographs, including a brief history of the building.

Author : Daniel Treisman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511350160
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Government written by Daniel Treisman and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the days of Montesquieu and Jefferson, political decentralisation has been seen as a force for better government and economic performance. This text examines the most influential arguments about the consequences of political decentralisation.

Author : Pallab Saha
Publisher : IGI Global Snippet
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Government Enterprise Architecture written by Pallab Saha and published by IGI Global Snippet. This book was released on 2009 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource is a compilation of chapters on government Enterprise architecture with the intention of informing professionals with different levels of enterprise architecture knowledge.

Author : Joy Knoblauch
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987031
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Good Behavior written by Joy Knoblauch and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desired behaviors with environmental incentives, implementing what Joy Knoblauch calls “psychological functionalism.” Recruited by federal construction and research programs for institutional reform and expansion—which included hospitals, mental health centers, prisons, and public housing—architects theorized new ways to control behavior and make it more functional by exercising soft power, or power through persuasion, with their designs. In the 1960s –1970s era of anti-institutional sentiment, they hoped to offer an enlightened, palatable, more humane solution to larger social problems related to health, mental health, justice, and security of the population by applying psychological expertise to institutional design. In turn, Knoblauch argues, architects gained new roles as researchers, organizers, and writers while theories of confinement, territory, and surveillance proliferated. The Architecture of Good Behavior explores psychological functionalism as a political tool and the architectural projects funded by a postwar nation in its efforts to govern, exert control over, and ultimately pacify its patients, prisoners, and residents.

Author : Pier Vittorio Aureli
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262515792
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture written by Pier Vittorio Aureli and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city. In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli uses the term absolute not in the conventional sense of “pure,” but to denote something that is resolutely itself after being separated from its other. In the pursuit of the possibility of an absolute architecture, the other is the space of the city, its extensive organization, and its government. Politics is agonism through separation and confrontation; the very condition of architectural form is to separate and be separated. Through its act of separation and being separated, architecture reveals at once the essence of the city and the essence of itself as political form: the city as the composition of (separate) parts. Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advanced through the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city at large: Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Étienne Louis-Boullée, and Oswald Mathias Ungers. The work of these architects, Aureli argues, addressed the transformations of the modern city and its urban implications through the elaboration of specific and strategic architectural forms. Their projects for the city do not take the form of an overall plan but are expressed as an “archipelago” of site-specific interventions.

Author : Lois A. Craig
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262530590
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Federal Presence written by Lois A. Craig and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This kaleidoscopic survey of architecture and design traces the federal government's role in shaping America's built environment from L'Enfant's baroque plan for Washington, D.C. to the space-age technology of Cape Canaveral. Its rich exhibit of documents and photographic material accompanied by a lively text reveal the U.S. government to be one of the most active, and at times most creative, patrons of architecture and design.