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.
Author(s): Andrea Rapini
Series: Italian and Italian American Studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 177
City: Cham
Foreword
Consulted Archives
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Graphs
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Administrative Science as a Historical Problem
1.2 Modus Operandi
1.3 Outline of the Book
Chapter 2: State Building and the Institutionalisation of Administrative Science
2.1 National Roots and International Transfer
2.2 Regulations, Borders and Territories
2.3 Consecration: Clues
2.4 The Attraction of Other Disciplines: Luigi Rava
Chapter 3: Who Decides What Administrative Science Is?
3.1 The Italian University Model: Between France and Germany
3.2 Recruiting the Recruiters
3.3 From Individuals to Networks
3.4 Vittorio Emanuele Orlando: Between the Coordination Nucleus and the Decision-Making Periphery
3.5 Disciplines and Regulations: Giovanni Vacchelli
Appendix
Chapter 4: Administrative Science, Total War and Social Reform
4.1 Modern Warfare, Work and Care for the Population
4.2 A Reforming Nebula: Prosopographic Analysis
4.3 The Commission’s Proposals for the Study of Social Legislation
4.4 The Invention of the Middle Classes
4.5 On the Edge of the Precipice: Administrative Science, the Liberal State and Fascism
4.6 When the Gates Are Not Open
Chapter 5: The Deinstitutionalisation of Administrative Science
5.1 The Catholic University, Romeo Vuoli and the Institutionalisation of Political Sciences
5.2 Administrative Science and Corporatism
5.3 The Tetrarchy
5.4 At the Margins of the Discipline: Carlo Francesco Ferraris
5.5 The Anomaly: Guido Cavaglieri
5.6 The Nomos of the Discipline: Oreste Ranelletti
Chapter 6: “Silkworm Man”: Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
