Overview
- Traces the origins, life and death of Administrative Science in Italy as an academic discipline
- Combines the study of ideas, institutional history, intellectual history and social history
- Argues the function of jurists in the symbolic legitimisation of the power and in the origins of Fascism
Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book traces the origins, life and death of Administrative Science in Italy as an academic discipline between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so by combining the study of ideas, institutional history, intellectual history and social history. The Faculty of Law first introduced Administrative Science in 1875, with the aim of providing the elite with the necessary tools to distribute wealth more equally, to take care of the population and, thus, to make the young Italian State more legitimate in the eyes of the emerging masses. Law and social sciences were merged with the aim of increasing reforms, including that of creating a State of Happiness for all citizens. Throughout its 70-year existence, Administrative Science was deprived of its contents and scientific independence, and academically overshadowed by Administrative and Public law. Finally, although the liberal elites discarded the reformer project of Administrative Science even before Fascism turned everything upside down, most of the original traits of this knowledge were absorbed into Fascist corporate and totalitarian structures.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Andrea Rapini is Professor in Contemporary History at the Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Social History of Administrative Science in Italy
Book Subtitle: Planning a State of Happiness from Liberalism to Fascism
Authors: Andrea Rapini
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17047-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17046-1Published: 02 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17047-8Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 164
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Italy, History of Modern Europe, History, general, Cultural History, Social History