caa a22 4500 445822449 CHVBK 20180317145248.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11186-011-9141-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11186-011-9141-9 Mukerji Chandra Department of Communication, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, 92093-0503, La Jolla, CA, USA aut Jurisdiction, inscription, and state formation: administrative modernism and knowledge regimes [Elektronische Daten] [Chandra Mukerji] In seventeenth-century France, Colbert built a more effective state administration not by rationalizing state offices but by using public documents to increase the government's intellectual capacity to exercise logistical power and engage in territorial governance. This pattern calls into question Weber's model of the genesis of "modern officialdom,” suggesting that its source was not social rationalization, but rather the identification and management of expertise. Colbert recruited into government nascent technocrats with knowledge useful to territorial politics, using contracts and other documents to limit their independence and subordinate them to patrimonial authorities. They exercised specific duties and impersonal powers in jurisdictional areas—much like modern technocrats. Their expertise enhanced the intellectual capacity of the administration to exercise territorial power and made the state less dependent on patrimonial clienteles without challenging the patrimonial culture of power/knowledge. The Author(s), 2011 Weber nationallicence Bureaucratic files nationallicence Power/knowledge nationallicence Political networks nationallicence Distributed cognition nationallicence Public documents nationallicence Roman numerals nationallicence Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/3(2011-05-01), 223-245 0304-2421 40:3<223 2011 40 11186 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9141-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9141-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mukerji Chandra Department of Communication, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, 92093-0503, La Jolla, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/3(2011-05-01), 223-245 0304-2421 40:3<223 2011 40 11186 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer