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The New Technocracy /

Setting a new benchmark for studies of technocracy, this book shows that a solution to the challenge of populism will depend as much on a technocratic retreat as democratic innovation. Esmark examines the development since the 1980s of a new 'post-industrial' technocratic regime and its co...

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Autor principal: Esmark, Anders (Autor, Verfasser.)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL, USA Bristol University Press 2020
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Sumario:Setting a new benchmark for studies of technocracy, this book shows that a solution to the challenge of populism will depend as much on a technocratic retreat as democratic innovation. Esmark examines the development since the 1980s of a new 'post-industrial' technocratic regime and its complicity in the populist backlash against politics and political elites that is visible today. The new technocracy - a combination of network governance, risk management and performance management - has, the author argues, abandoned the overtly anti-democratic sentiments of its industrial predecessor and proclaimed a new partnership with democracy. The rise of populism, however, is a clear sign that the inherent problems of this partnership have been exposed and that technocracy posing as democracy will only serve to exacerbate existing problems.
Notas:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2021).
Descripción Física:1 online resource (300 pages).
ISBN:9781529200904