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…
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…
Recoge: 1.The themes of the book - 2.From technocratic utopias to the politics of expertise - 3.Technocracy and European Union public policy policy making - 4.The single currency: who won at Maastricht? - 5.Tax policy in the European Union: technocracy or politicization? - 6.Med…
Monograph on technocracy in the German Democratic Republic - explores political behaviour of the new social stratum of intellectual technicians and of those members of the political power Elite recruited from this group, and links various forms of social change to the government…
"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…
"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…