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The New Technocracy
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- 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.
- Subjects :
- Populism
Technocracy
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBNs :
- 9781529200874 and 9781529200904
- Database :
- eBook Index
- Journal :
- The New Technocracy
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- 2419246