Format:
xviii, 322 Seiten
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Diagramme
ISBN:
9781032237831
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9780367358280
Series Statement:
Routledge research on social and political elites
Content:
"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. The book offers a solid theory and conceptualization of technocratic politics and the technocratic challenge is analyzed empirically at all levels of the national and supra-national institutions and actors, such as cabinets, parties, the EU, independent bodies, central banks and direct democratic campaigns in a comparative and policy perspective. It takes an in-depth analysis addressing elitism, meritocracy, de-politicization, efficiency, neutrality, reliance on science and distrust toward party politics and ideologies, and their impact when pitched against democratic responsiveness, accountability, citizens' input and pluralist competition. In the current crisis of democracy, this book assesses the effects of the technocratic critique against representative institutions, which are perceived to be unable to deal with complex and global problems, and it analyzes demands for competent and responsible policy making in combination with the simultaneous populist resistance to experts. The book will be of key interest to scholars and students of comparative politics, political theory, policy analysis, multi-level governance as well as practitioners working in bureaucracies, media, think-tanks and policy making"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 279-311. - Index
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Introduction: The technocratic challenge to democracy
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Technocracy and political theory
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Neoliberal technocracy : the challenge to democratic self-government
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Technocracy and depoliticization
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Technocratic responsiveness : Reinout van der Veer
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Measuring technocracy
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Technocratic cabinets
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Technocrats in cabinets and their policy effects
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Technocratic cabinets in European negotiations
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Technocracy in discourse : the case of direct democracy
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Technocracy and the policy process
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The EU between technocratic and democratic legitimacy
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Technocracy in Latin America : between stability and democratic deficit
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Technocracy in Central-Eastern Europe and its impact on democratization
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Conclusion: Technocracy and democracy : friends or foes?
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780429342165
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Technocratic challenge to democracy Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe The technocratic challenge to democracy London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 ISBN 9781000043563
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Technokratie
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Demokratie
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Politik
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Legitimität
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Repräsentation
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Caramani, Daniele 1968-
