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Matthew Scherer
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BIOGRAPHY

Assistant Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University. Author of Beyond Church and State. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Governance (2007) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.

Primary Contributions (1)
Micropolitics, small-scale interventions that are used for governing the behaviour of large populations of people. In the second half of the 20th century, micropolitics came to be defined by French philosophers Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari as a type of political regulation…
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Publications (2)
Beyond Church and State: Democracy, Secularism, and Conversion
Beyond Church and State: Democracy, Secularism, and Conversion (March 2013)
By Matthew Scherer
Secularism is often imagined in Thomas Jefferson's words as "a wall of separation between Church and State." Beyond Church and State moves past that standard picture to argue that secularism is a process that reshapes both religion and politics. Borrowing a term from religious traditions, the book goes further to argue that this process should be understood as a process of conversion. Matthew Scherer studies Saint Augustine, John Locke, John Rawls, Henri Bergson, and Stanley Cavell to present a more...
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Encyclopedia of Governance - 2 volume set
Encyclopedia of Governance - 2 volume set (December 2006)
The Encyclopedia of Governance provides a one-stop point of reference for the diverse and complex topics surrounding governance for the period between the collapse of the post-war consensus and the rise of neoliberal regimes in the 1970s. This comprehensive resource concentrates primarily on topics related to the changing nature and role of the state in recent times and the ways in which these roles have been conceptualized in the areas of Political Science, Public Administration, Political Economy,...
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