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The Technocratic Challenge to Democracy (Paperback)
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The Technocratic Challenge to Democracy (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites
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This book represents the first comprehensive study of how
technocracy currently challenges representative democracy and asks
how technocratic politics undermines democratic legitimacy. 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. 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.
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