Bentham and Bureaucracy

An examination of Bentham's programme for the executive and judicial branches of government.

Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Government in eighteenth-century thought; 3. The foundations of Bentham's thought: the Comment, the Fragment, the Introduction and Of Laws in General; 4. Further explorations in jurisprudence; 5. From principles to practice: the Panopticon and its companions; 6. From the Panopticon to the Constitutional Code; 7. The Constitutional Code and Bentham's theory of government; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.