The Issue of Making Administration Effective in Modern Political Philosophy: State, Power, and Freedom

This paper examines the origins of the issue of how the administration can be made more effective, which is dealt with in modern political philosophy. Modern politics is shaped as a result of efforts to produce solutions to the problems caused by the processes of social change that begin with the modernization. The recognition of the fact that continuous change is inevitable leads to the emergence of problems about how administration can be made effective. Locke aims to establish the conditions guaranteeing the right to property and freedom by advocating the existence of a natural equality among all human beings. This leads to the understanding of administration as a phenomenon that becomes more effective through interactions between free individuals. In this context, this paper analyzes the issue of making the administration effective by taking into account the perspectives of the three leading philosophers of modern politics (Machiavelli, Hobbes and Locke).