The technocratic challenge to democracy / edited by Eri Bertsou and Daniele Caramani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bertsou, Eri, editor.

Caramani, Daniele, 1968- editor.

Series:

Routledge research on social and political elites.

Routledge research on social and political elites

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technocracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The technocratic challenge to democracy / Daniele Caramani

Technocracy and political theory / Christopher Bickerton and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti

Neoliberal technocracy : the challenge to democratic self-government / Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca

Technocracy and depoliticization / Pier Domenico Tortola

Technocratic responsiveness / Reinout van der Veer

Measuring technocracy / Eri Bertsou and Daniele Caramani

Technocratic cabinets / Marco Valbruzzi

Technocrats in cabinets and their policy effects / Despina Alexiadou

Technocratic cabinets in European negotiations / Silvana Târlea and Stefanie Bailer

Technocracy in discourse : the case of direct democracy / Jean Nava, Miguel Ángel Centeno and Larry Liu

Technocracy and the policy process / Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli

The EU between technocratic and democratic legitimacy / Marina Costa Lobo and Ian McManus

Technocracy in Latin America : between stability and democratic deficit / Eduardo Dargent

Technocracy in Central-Eastern Europe and its impact on democratization / Joshua A. Tucker and Jan Zilinsky

Conclusion: Technocracy and democracy : friends or foes? / Eri Bertsou.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-04356-8

0-429-34216-0

9780429342165

OCLC:

1141038181