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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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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL, USA
Bristol University Press
2020
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2021). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781529200904 |