This book examines the democratic legitimacy of the European Union (EU) and evaluates the democratic credentials of the EU's main decision-making procedure. It finds that though there is potential for democratic decision-making in the EU, the actual process is dominated by techn…
Praised by some as islands of efficiency in a sea of unprofessional, politicized and corrupt states, and criticized by others for removing wide areas of policy making from the democratic arena, technocrats have become prominent and controversial actors in Latin American politics…
Praised by some as islands of efficiency in a sea of unprofessional, politicized and corrupt states, and criticized by others for removing wide areas of policy making from the democratic arena, technocrats have become prominent and controversial actors in Latin American politics…
Praised by some as islands of efficiency in a sea of unprofessional, politicized and corrupt states, and criticized by others for removing wide areas of policy making from the democratic arena, technocrats have become prominent and controversial actors in Latin American politics…
The lure of technocracy
by Cronin, Ciaran, (Ciaran P.), Habermas, Jürgen, Habermas, Jürgen
"Over the past twenty-five years, Jürgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defense of the project of European unification and of parallel developments towards a politically integrated world society. In developing his key concepts of the t…
The lure of technocracy
by Cronin, Ciaran, (Ciaran P.), Habermas, Jürgen, Habermas, Jürgen
Over the past 25 years, Jürgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of the project of European unification and of parallel developments towards a politically integrated world society. In developing his key concepts of the transnation…
Over the past twenty-five years, Jürgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defense of the project of European unification and of parallel developments towards a politically integrated world society. In developing his key concepts of the tr…