TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bertsou,Eri
AU  - Caramani,Daniele
TI  - The Technocratic Challenge to Democracy
T2  - Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites Series
SN  - 9781000043563
AV  - HB87 .T436 2020
U1  - 321.8 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Technocracy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The technocratic challenge to democracy -- PART I: Concepts and theory -- 1: Technocracy and political theory -- 2: Neoliberal technocracy: The challenge to democratic self-government -- 3: Technocracy and depoliticization -- 4: Technocratic responsiveness -- 5: Measuring technocracy -- PART II: Institutions, actors and policies -- 6: Technocratic cabinets -- 7: Technocrats in cabinets and their policy effects -- 8: Technocratic cabinets in European negotiations -- 9: Technocracy in discourse: The case of direct democracy -- 10: Technocracy and the policy process -- PART III: Comparative perspectives -- 11: The EU between technocratic and democratic legitimacy -- 12: Technocracy in Latin America: Between stability and democratic deficit -- 13: Technocracy in Central/Eastern Europe and its impact on democratization -- Conclusion-Technocracy and democracy: Friends or foes? -- Appendix -- References -- Index
N2  - This book represents the first comprehensive study of how technocracy currently challenges representative democracy and asks how technocratic politics undermines democratic legitimacy and how strong is its challenge to democratic institutions
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ER  -