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Mark Bevir

Professor of Political Science

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Mark Bevir is Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. He was born and raised in London, and received his doctorate from the University of Oxford.

Mark's research interests include the philosophy of the human sciences, modern political thought, political philosophy, and governance. His historical interests include Anglophone, continental, and South Asian thought — especially radical, socialist, and critical theory of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His philosophical interests include postfoundational approaches to subjectivity, social inquiry, ethics, and democratic theory.

NB. If you are in UC Berkeley, the following links should work. If you are elsewhere some will work only if you or your institution have appropriate on-line subscriptions.

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Books

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  The Logic of the History of Ideas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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  [Read a summary of some aspects of this book]
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  Interpreting British Governance (with R.A.W. Rhodes), London, Routledge, 2003.
  [Read a summary of some aspects of this book]
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  New Labour: A Critique, London, Routledge, 2005.
  [Read a summary of some aspects of this book]
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  Governance Stories (with R.A.W. Rhodes), London, Routledge, 2006.

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Edited Books

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  Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day (with Frank Trentmann), Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
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  Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World (with Frank Trentmann), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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  Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880 (with Robert Adcock and Shannon Stimson), Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2007.
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  Histories of Postmodernism (with Jill Hargis and Sara Rushing), New York, Routledge, 2007.
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  Public Governance, 4 vols., London, Sage, 2007.
  Volume 1: Theories of Governance.
  Volume 2: Public Sector Reform.
  Volume 3: Public Policy.
  Volume 4: Democratic Governance.
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  Governance, Consumers and Citizens (with Frank Trentmann), Baringstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Reference Works

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  Encyclopedia of Governance, ed., 2 vols., Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage, 2007.

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Journal Issues

• Capitalism and Social Justice: British Critiques, Traditions, and Practices (with Frank Trentmann), European Legacy, vol. 6, no. 2, 2001.
• Traditions of Governance: History and Diversity (with R.A.W. Rhodes and Patrick Weller), Public Administration, vol. 81, no. 1, 2003.
• Historical Understanding and the Human Sciences, Journal of the Philosophy of History, vol. 1, no. 3, 2007

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Articles

Mark is the author of over a hundred articles in scholarly journals and books. Over time these will be placed, when the publishers allow, in the eScholarship Repository of the California Digital Library.

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Interviews

Interviews with Mark that are available online include:

• Poststructuralism and Radical Politics Newsletter by Sylvain Meyet
• Journal of Moral Philosophy by Simon Stow
• Niin & Näin by Petri Koikkalainen

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Debates

Several scholars have debated Mark’s work. Some examples are available on the web.

I. On the philosophy of the human sciences

• A journal issue on The Logic of the History of Ideas: History of European Ideas 28/1-2 (2002), 1-117.
• A round table on The Logic: Rethinking History 4 (2000), 301-350. This round table was reproduced, together with additional material, in Reviews in History.
• A symposium on The Logic: Philosophical Books 42 (2001), 64-86
• A symposium on The Logic: History of the Human Sciences 15/2 (2002), 102-125.
• Correspondence on The Logic: Rethinking History 4 (2000), 351-372.
• A debate on tradition: Humanitas 13 (2000), 28-53, and Humanitas 14 (2001), 108-119.
• A debate on weak intentionalism: History and Theory 41 (2002), 198-217.

II. On interpretive political science

• A symposium on the interpretive approach: British Journal of Politics and International Relations 6 (2004), 129-164.
• A symposium on New Labour: History of the Human Sciences 19/1 (2006), 89-120.
• A symposium on the interpretive approach: Political Studies Review 6 (2008), 143-177
• A symposium on the history of political science: Public Administration 79 (2001), 469-495.
• A debate on the interpretive approach and realism: British Politics 1 (2006), 113-138 and 397-413.
• A debate on New Labour: Parliamentary Affairs 60 (2007), 313-345.
• A debate on the interpretive approach: British Journal of Politics and International Relations 10 (2008), 251-268

III. On political philosophy

• A debate on the open community: Notizie di Politeia (Milano) 59 (2000), 67-85, and Notizie di Politeia (Milano) 60 (2000), 135-136.

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