TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rapini,Andrea
TI  - A Social History of Administrative Science in Italy: Planning a State of Happiness from Liberalism to Fascism 
T2  - Italian and Italian American Studies,
SN  - 9783031170478
U1  - 945 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Italy-History
KW  - Europe-History-1492-
KW  - Intellectual life-History
KW  - Social history
KW  - History of Italy
KW  - History of Modern Europe
KW  - Intellectual History
KW  - History of Ideas
KW  - Social History
N1  - 1. Introduction -- 2. State Building and the Institutionalization of Administrative Science -- 3. Who Decides what Administrative Science is? -- 4. Administrative Science and Total War -- 5. The Decline of Administrative Science -- 6. Conclusion
N2  - 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. Andrea Rapini is Professor in Contemporary History at the Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17047-8
ER  -