The New Technocracy
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The New Technocracy

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The New Technocracy

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. 1 Rediscovering Technocracy:
  7. 2 Technocratic Revolutions: From Industrial to Post-industrial Technocracy:
  8. 3 Who Are the Technocrats? From the Technostructure to Technocratic Government:
  9. 4 The Technocratic Regime: Technocracy, Bureaucracy and Democracy:
  10. 5 Technocratic Organization: The Power of Networks:
  11. 6 Technocratic Regulation: Coping With Risk and Uncertainty:
  12. 7 Technocratic Calculation: Economy, Evidence and Experiments:
  13. 8 New Populism vs New Technocracy:
  14. 9 Reining Technocracy Back In?:
  15. Conclusion: Technocracy at the End of the World:
  16. References
  17. Index