Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
AMME IDARESI DERGISI, cilt.53, sa.3, ss.79-102, 2020 (SSCI)
The concept of police gained a prominent position in the modern history of governmental thought in the period when absolute state structures started to form in the Continental Europe from the 16th century onwards. In the German cameralist states, police developed as academic literature at the highest level in Europe. Police as the science of government had a central place in universities, shaping the German social sciences. The conceptual, theoretical, and event history of the modern reason of state and public administration can be traced in the European history of police. After the second half of the 18th century, the conceptual and theoretical content of police transformed in the wake of the criticism of liberal governmental reason. The liberal critique of police took place in a wide range from classical political economists to Kant. Hegel proves to be a philosopher of this critical period with his approach to the concept of police, which appears in the short page range in his Elements of the Philosophy of Right. The present study examines the concept of police within the factual and intellectual history of cameralism. On this historical background, Hegel is positioned in the history of governmental thought by exhibiting the way he deals with the concept of police. Hegels approach to the police is clarified in the context of liberal governmental reason shaped by classical political economy of his age.