The New Technocracy

By Anders Esmark

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529200873
• ISBN13: 9781529200874
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"