Background
Bevir, William Mark was born on February 18, 1963 in London. Son of William Lawrence and Phebe (Belton Cobb).
(New Labour is the most innovative and powerful political ...)
New Labour is the most innovative and powerful political movement in Britain today. However, New Labour: A Critique argues that its apparent pragmatism disguises an ideological commitment to particular forms of social science, deploying new institutionalism and communitarianism to respond to the New Right. Bevir traces the impact of these forms of social science on the ideas and policies of New Labour, paying particular attention to the welfare state and the economy. New Labour, the new institutionalism and communitarianism typically objectify aspects of the social world to sustain claims to expert knowledge. Bevir defends and enacts an alternative, interpretive approach to social science. This interpretive approach inspires a critique of New Labour as a contingent reworking of a particular socialist tradition rather than the necessary or pragmatic response that it portrays itself as.
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(How is Britain governed? Have we entered a new era of gov...)
How is Britain governed? Have we entered a new era of governance? Can traditional approaches to governance help us to interpret 21st century Britain? This book develops the argument that we can understand political practices only by grasping the beliefs on which people act. It offers a governance narrative as a challenge to the Westminster model of British government and searches for a more accurate and open way of speaking about British government.
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( An incisive examination of Britain today, which breaks ...)
An incisive examination of Britain today, which breaks from traditional studies, and takes a new approach to account for massive changes in the make-up of the nation. Over the last twenty years Britain has changed from being governed as a unitary state to a country ruled by the interplay of various forces: central government, the market, public-private partnerships, new local government structures (eg. the new Mayoral system), greater regional autonomy as well as the EU and transnational businesses and organizations. In their earlier book Interpreting British Governance, Bevir and Rhodes examined changes in British government by setting out an interpretative approach to British political science, which focussed on an aggregate analysis of British political traditions. This new study builds on this work to: • provide a theoretical defence of situated agency located in the historical context of British political science • compare their approach to British political science with others including, post-structural and institutional analysis • present a general account of governance as the context for ethnographic analyses of governance in action • deliver studies of the consumers of public services, the National Health Service, government departments and policy networks. This book will be of great interest to advanced students and researchers of political theory, public policy, British politics and British history.
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(This book provides a philosophical analysis of the reason...)
This book provides a philosophical analysis of the reasoning appropriate to the history of ideas. It addresses three main questions: what sort of meanings do historians study? How can historians justify claims to have objective knowledge of such meanings? What sorts of explanations are appropriate to such meanings? By answering these questions Mark Bevir seeks to clarify the nature of the history of ideas so as to guide historians in their practice, and to illuminate the process by which human thought develops.
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Bevir, William Mark was born on February 18, 1963 in London. Son of William Lawrence and Phebe (Belton Cobb).
Bachelor, Exeter University, England, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, England, 1989.
Research fellow Madras University, India, 1990—1992. Sir James Knott fellow Newcastle University, England, 1992—1998, reader in political theory England, 1998—2000. Assistant professor University California, Berkeley, 2000—2002, associate professor, 2002—2005, professor, since 2005.
Member International Next Generations Leaders' Forum, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 1995. Visiting fellow Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University Texas, Austin, 1999, CERVL, Bordeaux, France, 2003, Australian National University, 2004, Birkbeck College, London, 2005. Affiliate Institute Government Studies, University California, Berkeley, since 2000.
(How is Britain governed? Have we entered a new era of gov...)
( An incisive examination of Britain today, which breaks ...)
(This book provides a philosophical analysis of the reason...)
(This book provides a philosophical analysis of the reason...)
(New Labour is the most innovative and powerful political ...)
Member of Society for the Philosophy of History (vice president 2001-2005, president since 2005).
Married Laura Grant, April 7, 1990. Children: Lawrence Anthony, Harry John.