The Technocratic Challenge to Democracy

ISBN-13: 9781032237831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 340 str.

Eri Bertsou; Daniele Caramani

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

Eri Bertsou is Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Politics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Daniele Caramani is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.