Category: Government

Lorenz von Stein adalah “bapak adm. negara”, kalau dapat disebut seperti itu. Juga “bapak reformasi (bukan revolusi) sosial” dan “bapak negara sosial (bukan sosialis)”. Ini percik pemikiran saya 22 tahun lalu, kalau tidak salah ditulis untuk seminar ISTECS di Paris th 2000. Ditemukan hari ini di web.archive. Lebih banyak tentang ilmuwan ini, lihat wikipedia.

LEARNING FROM THE LORENZ VON STEIN’S IDEA OF SOCIAL STATE

Samodra Wibawa

Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer, Germany

Email: swibawa@gmx.de

Abstract. The 19^th century Europe was characterised by the rapid technological and economical development and –as its consequent– the strong tendency of social revolution. In a such socio-psychological situation many social movements have developed, in search for a social regime on their own interests. Each movement created its own ideology or social theory, such as liberalism or communism, that functions as a working instrument to conduct the movement. The german scholar Lorenz von Stein developed his idea of social-state as a middle way between the Marx-Engels’ law of dialectical social development, the Spencers’ organic social system and the non-interventionist liberalism. He was pro the parliamentary, constitutional monarchy and suggested that the state (and its upper social class) should, in order to stop the revolutionary tendency of the lower, worker class, promote an appropriate living standard of the poor. Although Stein was contra the idea of republic because of its less practicability, he found that civil society is the most developed form the human society. The author find the similarity of Steins with a new, a century later in the other side of the globe growing ideology: the developmentalism of the thirty years Suhartos administration.

Keywords: political idea, social state, administration, bureaucracy.

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