The New Technocracy

The New Technocracy

by Anders Esmark
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 08/04/2020

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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.

ISBN:
9781529200911
9781529200911
Category:
Public administration
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
08-04-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bristol University Press

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