{"title":"The Pandemic and Max Weber","authors":"Hinnerk Bruhns","doi":"10.1353/max.2020.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2020.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122203613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secular Ethics and Socialist Spirit: Reflections on The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism","authors":"Wang Yiwei","doi":"10.1353/max.2020.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2020.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"63 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115726607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weber as a Swimmer in the Currents of his Time: An Object Lesson in how not to get Washed Away by the Tide","authors":"S. Fuller","doi":"10.1353/max.2020.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2020.0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121464538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weber and the Jains","authors":"L. Babb","doi":"10.1353/max.2020.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2020.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Although Max Weber is best known to non-specialists for The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, a work as controversial as it is famous, he also wrote extensively on the world's other major religions, and this included the religions of India. In what follows, I examine what he had say about Jainism and some of the issues to which it gives rise. I begin with some Jain basics followed by a brief account of what Weber himself had to say about the Jains. I then discuss the Jains as traders and as traders among other traders, after which I consider the issue of Weber's relevance to an understanding of the Jains.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"420 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122864584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ideal Types and Behavioral Hypotheses: Public Law, Max Weber and the New Public Administration","authors":"Paolo D’Anselmi","doi":"10.1353/max.2020.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2020.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article challenges the assumptions that current public administration is a direct application of Max Weber's ideal type of rational-legal bureaucracy. The prevailing theory of public administration is the Rational Behavioral Hypothesis which this article argues is an instrumentalized version of Weber's ideal type and as such it presumes, invalidly, the attributes of legal-rationality. Of the majority of civil services across the world employing an estimated half a billion officials, Weberian criteria of efficiency, rationality, and impartiality to politicans and citizens alike is lacking. Yet despite these failings bureaucratic practice is assumed to be Weberian. The author argues that the Rational Behavioral Hypothesis has to be replaced by the ‘Administrative Behavior hypothesis’ which is taken from Herbert Simon. Bruce Ackerman's account of bureaucracy as the fourth pillar of modern constitutionalism is criticised for its reliance on the cultural formation of bureaucratic elites. The role of New Public Management and the Neo-Weberian State in public administration are assessed.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130578628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Max Weber and the Mandate of Heaven","authors":"W. Drechsler","doi":"10.1353/max.2020.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2020.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:How can China's eminence in the global economy during the era from 1000 to 1750 be reconciled with its Confucian system of government and administration, which allegedly did not focus on the economy at all? The answer might lie in the concept of the Mandate of Heaven, which provided the Confucian bureaucracy with a severe performance imperative, a point made forcefully if very implicitly—almost unconsciously—by Max Weber in his Confucianism study. Perhaps because of this implicitness, however, no study on the MoH so far has apparently utilized Weber, while Weber-on-China studies have only rarely looked at his use of the Mandate of Heaven. This essay fills these lacunae from the Public Administration perspective, bringing the discussion up to today.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125557774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kapitalismus bei Max Weberâzur Rekonstruktion eines fast vergessenen Themas by Talcott Parsons (review)","authors":"Victor Lidz, Helmut Staubmann","doi":"10.1353/max.2020.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2020.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125744439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reply to Frank J. Lechner's ‘Versions of Vocation‘","authors":"J. Dreijmanis","doi":"10.1353/max.2020.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2020.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132875067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}