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Barry Hindess

Bio: Barry Hindess is an academic researcher from Australian National University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Democracy. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 99 publications receiving 4082 citations.


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12 Jan 1996
TL;DR: The Supreme Exercise of Power: Lukes and Critical Theory as discussed by the authors, which is the basis for this paper, is a good starting point for a discussion of the relationship between power, government and domination.
Abstract: Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. That Mortal God: Hobbes on Power and the Sovereign. 3. A Right of Making Laws: Locke on Political Power and Morality. 4. The Supreme Exercise of Power: Lukes and Critical Theory. 5. Discipline and Cherish: Foucault on Power, Government and Domination. 6. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index.

593 citations

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01 Jan 1975

294 citations

Book
01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: In this paper, Mitchell Dean and Barry Hindess discuss the relationship between government, liberalism and society, and the role of asceticism in the ethical life of the unemployed citizen.
Abstract: 1. Introduction: government, liberalism and society Mitchell Dean and Barry Hindess 2. Corporatising education Denise Meredyth 3. Ethics in the service of the state J. P. Minson 4. Bad habits or bad conscience? Sexual harassment in the Australian Defence Force Alison Smith 5. Administering asceticism: reworking the ethical life of the unemployed citizen Mitchell Dean 6. Dangerous individuals: government and the concept of personality David McCallum 7. The constitution of AIDS in Australia Taking government at a distance seriously John Ballard 8. Governing queens: gay communities and the state in contemporary Australia Gary Dowsett 9. Indigenous governance Pat O'Malley 10. Governing material culture Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell 11. 'The mutable minds of particular men': the emergence of 'economic science' and debates around contemporary economic policy David Burchell 12. Neo-liberalism and the national economy Barry Hindess 13. Interpreting contemporary contractualism Anna Yeatman 14 Uncivil society: Historical and methodological comments on liberal government Ian Hunter.

224 citations

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TL;DR: Foucault's view of the market as a locus of privileged experience where one can identify the effects of excessive governmentality has been adapted to the analysis of neoliberal attempts to govern through the decisions of autonomous individuals as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Perhaps the most influential aspect of Michel Foucault's work on government has been his treatment of liberalism as a distinctive form of political reason. Liberalism is commonly regarded as a normative political doctrine or theory that treats the maintenance of individual liberty as an end in itself and therefore views liberty as setting limits of principle both to the legitimate objectives of government and to the manner in which those objectives may be pursued. Foucault's account of liberalism as a rationality of government also accords central place to individual liberty, which is seen as giving rise to a prudential concern that one might be governing too much. The suggestion is that, rather than pursue its objectives through the detailed regulation of conduct in the manner of police, it might be more effective for the government of a state to work through the maintenance and promotion of certain forms of individual liberty. According to this account, underlying the liberal fear of governing too much are two distinct but related perceptions of the population to be governed. It is seen first as containing a number of self-regulating domains of social interaction, and secondly as consisting of individuals endowed with a capacity for autonomous, self-directing activity. In liberal political thought, Foucault observes, the market epitomizes both perceptions, serving, in effect, as "a locus of privileged experience where one can identify the effects of excessive governmentality."1 Liberal political reason, then, sees individual liberty as a limit, not simply to the legitimate reach of government, but also to its effectiveness. More recent scholars have adapted this account of liberalism to the analysis of neoliberal attempts to govern through the decisions of autonomous individuals.

207 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that an understanding of the impact of citizenship in the modern world must consider not only its role in bringing together members of particular sub-populations and promoting some of their interests, but also the effects of rendering the global population governable by dividing it into sub-population consisting of the citizens of discrete, politically independent and competing states.
Abstract: Academic discussion of citizenship focuses primarily on the citizen in relation to the particular state of which s/he is a member From this perspective the modern spread of citizenship, first in a few western states and then somewhat more generally, is usually regarded as a definite advance in human well-being, as turning what had once been the privileges of the few into the rights of the many This paper aims, if not entirely to undermine, then at least to unsettle this celebration of citizenship It suggests that an understanding of the impact of citizenship in the modern world must consider not just its role in bringing together members of particular sub-populations and promoting some of their interests, but also the effects of rendering the global population governable by dividing it into sub-populations consisting of the citizens of discrete, politically independent and competing states

204 citations


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01 Sep 1989
TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.
Abstract: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

5,075 citations

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TL;DR: The debate between realists and liberals has reemerged as an axis of contention in international relations theory as mentioned in this paper, and the debate is more concerned today with the extent to which state action is influenced by "structure" versus "process" and institutions.
Abstract: The debate between realists and liberals has reemerged as an axis of contention in international relations theory.’ Revolving in the past around competing theories of human nature, the debate is more concerned today with the extent to which state action is influenced by ‘structure’ (anarchy and the distribution of power) versus ‘process’ (interaction and learning) and institutions. Does the absence of centralized political authority force states to play competitive power politics? Can international regimes overcome this logic, and under what conditions? What in anarchy is given and immutable, and what is amenable to change?

3,964 citations

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TL;DR: It is impossible that the rulers now on earth should make any benefit, or derive any the least shadow of authority from that, which is held to be the fountain of all power, Adam's private dominion and paternal jurisdiction.
Abstract: All these premises having, as I think, been clearly made out, it is impossible that the rulers now on earth should make any benefit, or derive any the least shadow of authority from that, which is held to be the fountain of all power, Adam's private dominion and paternal jurisdiction; so that he that will not give just occasion to think that all government in the world is the product only of force and violence, and that men live together by no other rules but that of beasts, where the strongest carries it, and so lay a foundation for perpetual disorder and mischief, tumult, sedition and rebellion, (things that the followers of that hypothesis so loudly cry out against) must of necessity find out another rise of government, another original of political power, and another way of designing and knowing the persons that have it, than what Sir Robert Filmer hath taught us.

3,076 citations

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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: The four Visegrad states (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) form a compact area between Germany and Austria in the west and the states of the former USSR in the east as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The four Visegrad states — Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia (until 1993 Czechoslovakia) and Hungary — form a compact area between Germany and Austria in the west and the states of the former USSR in the east. They are bounded by the Baltic in the north and the Danube river in the south. They are cut by the Sudeten and Carpathian mountain ranges, which divide Poland off from the other states. Poland is an extension of the North European plain and like the latter is drained by rivers that flow from south to north west — the Oder, the Vlatava and the Elbe, the Vistula and the Bug. The Danube is the great exception, flowing from its source eastward, turning through two 90-degree turns to end up in the Black Sea, forming the barrier and often the political frontier between central Europe and the Balkans. Hungary to the east of the Danube is also an open plain. The region is historically and culturally part of western Europe, but its eastern Marches now represents a vital strategic zone between Germany and the core of the European Union to the west and the Russian zone to the east.

3,056 citations