# The New Technocracy

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- Authors: [Anders Esmark](https://www.bookquiver.com/anders-esmark)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2020-09-04

## Description

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.

## Editions

### The New Technocracy

- Publisher: Bristol University Press
- ISBN: 978-15-2920-088-1
- Pages: 300
- Published: 2020-09-04
- Language: en_US