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The Technocratic Challenge to Democracy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (341 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781000043563
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Technocratic Challenge to DemocracyDDC classification:
  • 321.8
LOC classification:
  • HB87 .T436 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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