Overview
The recent rise of populist parties and movements in the United States and Europe--and their contempt for and distrust of the opinions of mainstream experts--has shocked the establishment. New Technocracy examines how the post-industrial technocratic regime of the 1980s--defined by managerialism, depoliticization, and the politics of expertise--sowed the seeds for the today's backlash against elite political powers. Esmark argues that populism is a sign that the technocratic bluff has finally been called, setting a new benchmark for studies of technocracy by showing that a solution to the challenge of populism will depend as much on a technocratic retreat as democratic innovation.
- | Author: Anders Esmark
- | Publisher: Policy Press
- | Publication Date: May 08, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 224 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1529200873
- | ISBN-13: 9781529200874
