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Author Bickerton, Christopher J., author

Title Technopopulism : the new logic of democratic politics / Christopher J. Bickerton and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Summary Technocratic appeals to expertise and populist invocations of 'the people' have become mainstays of political competition in established democracies. This development is best understood as the emergence of technopopulism-a new political logic that is being superimposed on the traditional struggle between left and right. Political movements and actors-such as Italy's Five Star Movement and France's La Republiqe En Marche-combine technocratic and populist appeals in a variety of ways, as do more established parties that are adapting to the particular set of incentives and constraints implicit in this new, unmediated form of politics. In the first book-length treatment of the phenomenon of technopopulism, we combine theoretical and historical approaches, offering a systematic definition of the concept of technopopulism, while also exploring a number of salient contemporary examples. This book provides a detailed account of the emergence of this new political logic, as well as a discussion of its troubling consequences for existing democratic regimes. It ends by considering some possible remedies that go beyond the simplistic idea that in the right 'dose' populism and technocracy can counter-balance one another
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on June 25, 2021)
Subject Democracy -- History -- 21st century
Populism -- History -- 21st century
Technocracy -- History -- 21st century
Democracy
Populism
Technocracy
Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Accetti, Carlo Invernizzi, 1983- author.
ISBN 9780192534989
019253498X
9780191845628
0191845620