
Technocratic Politics
Beyond Democratic Society?
Francesco Antonelli(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. May 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-032-10926-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book considers the role of experts and expertise in contemporary politics and the ways in which digitalisation and the use of technique are transforming practices of governance.
Asking whether the Covid-19 crisis is likely to further advance or weaken these processes, it examines their impact on the future of democracy and urges rejection of the idea of technocracy as an alternative to politics. An examination of the relationship between social elites and technique, this volume highlights the threat posed to representative democracy of this fundamental mechanism of governance in the global world and reflects upon new forms of the political-economic regime.
It is important reading for scholars of sociology and politics with interests in questions of power, governance, and representation.
Asking whether the Covid-19 crisis is likely to further advance or weaken these processes, it examines their impact on the future of democracy and urges rejection of the idea of technocracy as an alternative to politics. An examination of the relationship between social elites and technique, this volume highlights the threat posed to representative democracy of this fundamental mechanism of governance in the global world and reflects upon new forms of the political-economic regime.
It is important reading for scholars of sociology and politics with interests in questions of power, governance, and representation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
126 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-10926-8 (9781032109268)
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Francesco Antonelli is Professor of General Sociology in the Department of Political Sciences at the Universita degli Studi "Roma Tre", Italy. He is also the Coordinator of the HORIZON2020 Project "PARTICIPATION: Analyzing and Preventing Violent Extremism Via Participation" (2020-2023) and Secretary of the RC "Sociological Theory and Social Transformations" at the Italian Association of Sociology (AIS).
Content
Introduction, 1. Rationality: Reassembling Technocratic Theory, 2. Power: Expertise and Digitalisation, 3. Ambivalence: Governance and Technoscience, 4. Emergency: The New Enlightened Despotism