The technocratic challenge to democracy

by Bertsou, Eri Caramani, Danièle

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

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"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780429342165, 0429342160, 9781000043563, 1000043568, 1000043606, 9781000043587, 1000043584, 9781000043600
DOI:10.4324/9780429342165.
oclc:on1141038181
LC Classification:JC423
Dewey Decimal:321.8

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.