The New Technocracy

Anders Esmark

doi:10.46692/9781529200904

Setting a new benchmark for studies of technocracy, this book shows that a solution to the challenge of populism will depend as much on a technocratic retreat as democratic innovation. Esmark examines the development since the 1980s of a new 'post-industrial' technocratic regime and its complicity in the populist backlash against politics and political elites that is visible today. The new technocracy - a combination of network governance, risk management and performance management - has, the author argues, abandoned the overtly anti-democratic sentiments of its industrial predecessor and proclaimed a new partnership with democracy. The rise of populism, however, is a clear sign that the inherent problems of this partnership have been exposed and that technocracy posing as democracy will only serve to exacerbate existing problems.

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

List of Figures
pp iv-iv

1 - Rediscovering Technocracy
pp 1-18

2 - Technocratic Revolutions: From Industrial to Post-industrial Technocracy
pp 19-52

3 - Who Are the Technocrats? From the Technostructure to Technocratic Government
pp 53-78

4 - The Technocratic Regime: Technocracy, Bureaucracy and Democracy
pp 79-110

5 - Technocratic Organization: The Power of Networks
pp 111-140

6 - Technocratic Regulation: Coping with Risk and Uncertainty
pp 141-172

7 - Technocratic Calculation: Economy, Evidence and Experiments
pp 173-202

8 - New Populism vs New Technocracy
pp 203-226

9 - Reining Technocracy Back In?
pp 227-250

Conclusion: Technocracy at the End of the World
pp 251-258

References
pp 259-286

Index
pp 287-296

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