Technocracy In America

Author : Parag Khanna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0998232513

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Technocracy in America by Parag Khanna Pdf

American democracy just isn't good enough anymore. A costly election has done more to divide American society than unite it, while trust in government--and democracy itself--is plummeting. But there are better systems out there, and America would be wise to learn from them. In this provocative manifesto, globalization scholar Parag Khanna tours cutting-edge nations from Switzerland to Singapore to reveal the inner workings that allow them that lead the way in managing the volatility of a fast-changing world while delivering superior welfare and prosperity for their citizens. The ideal form of government for the complex 21st century is what Khanna calls a "direct technocracy," one led by experts but perpetually consulting the people through a combination of democracy and data. From a seven-member presidency and a restructured cabinet to replacing the Senate with an Assembly of Governors, Technocracy in America is full of sensible proposals that have been proven to work in the world's most successful societies. Americans have a choice for whom they elect president, but they should not wait any longer to redesign their political system following Khanna's pragmatic vision.

Author : Eduardo Dargent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107059870

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Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America by Eduardo Dargent Pdf

Praised by some as islands of efficiency in a sea of unprofessional, politicized, and corrupt states, and criticized by others for removing wide areas of policy making from the democratic arena, technocrats have become prominent and controversial actors in Latin American politics. Through an in-depth analysis of economic and health policy in Colombia from 1958 to 2011 and in Peru from 1980 to 2011, Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America explains the source of these experts' power as well as the leverage they have across state policy sectors in Latin America.

Author : William E. Akin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0520031105

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Technocracy and the American Dream by William E. Akin Pdf

This study focuses on the genesis and development of the Technocrats' philosophy, and describes the movement's initial popularity in 1932 abd 1933, and its rapid decline as a result of the Technocrats' failure to develop a political philosophy which could reconcile their technological aristocracy with democracy.

Author : Giovanni Borgognone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782336318912

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TEchnocracy in America by Giovanni Borgognone Pdf

Author : Miguel Angel Centeno
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271045825

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Democracy Within Reason by Miguel Angel Centeno Pdf

Author : Esmark, Anders
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529200911

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The New Technocracy by Esmark, Anders Pdf

The rise of populist parties and movements across the Western hemisphere and their contempt for ‘experts’ has shocked the establishment. This book examines how the ‘post-industrial’ technocratic regime of the 1980’s – of managerialism, depoliticisation and the politics of expertise – sowed the seeds for the backlash against the political elites that is visible today. Populism, Esmark augues, is a sign that the technocratic bluff has finally been called and that technocracy posing as democracy will only serve to exasperate existing problems. This book sets a new benchmark for studies of technocracy, showing that a solution to the challenge of populism will depend as much on a technocratic retreat as democratic innovation.

Author : Eve E. Buckley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469634319

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Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Eve E. Buckley Pdf

Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertão, plagued by chronic poverty, recurrent famine, and mass migrations. Buckley reveals how the physicians, engineers, agronomists, and mid-level technocrats working for federal agencies to combat drought were pressured by politicians to seek out a technological magic bullet that would both end poverty and obviate the need for land redistribution to redress long-standing injustices.

Author : Eri Bertsou,Daniele Caramani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000043600

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The Technocratic Challenge to Democracy by Eri Bertsou,Daniele Caramani Pdf

This book represents the first comprehensive study of how technocracy currently challenges representative democracy and asks how technocratic politics undermines democratic legitimacy. How strong is its challenge to democratic institutions? The book offers a solid theory and conceptualization of technocratic politics and the technocratic challenge is analyzed empirically at all levels of the national and supra-national institutions and actors, such as cabinets, parties, the EU, independent bodies, central banks and direct democratic campaigns in a comparative and policy perspective. It takes an in-depth analysis addressing elitism, meritocracy, de-politicization, efficiency, neutrality, reliance on science and distrust toward party politics and ideologies, and their impact when pitched against democratic responsiveness, accountability, citizens' input and pluralist competition. In the current crisis of democracy, this book assesses the effects of the technocratic critique against representative institutions, which are perceived to be unable to deal with complex and global problems. It analyzes demands for competent and responsible policy making in combination with the simultaneous populist resistance to experts. The book will be of key interest to scholars and students of comparative politics, political theory, policy analysis, multi-level governance as well as practitioners working in bureaucracies, media, think-tanks and policy making.

Author : Harold Loeb
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815603800

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Life in a Technocracy by Harold Loeb Pdf

The origins of technocracy are shrouded in controversy, but most of its leaders were inspired by their association with the social critic Thorstein Veblen, between 1919 and 1921. Harold Loeb, an expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, was one of the more accomplished and interesting of the technocrats. In Life in a Technocracy, now a twentieth-century utopian classic, he expounds on the merits of creating a utopian society through technocracy, predicting the future of art, education, religion, and government under the leadership of technical professionals.

Author : Patrick M. Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Economics
ISBN : 0986373982

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Technocracy by Patrick M. Wood Pdf

This book identifies the birth, evolution, and intrusive nature of the exploitation of science and technology by a group, accurately and adequately identified as technocrats.

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745686837

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The Lure of Technocracy by Jürgen Habermas Pdf

Over the past 25 years, Jürgen Habermas has presented whatis arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of theproject of European unification and of parallel developmentstowards a politically integrated world society. In developing hiskey concepts of the transnationalisation of democracy and theconstitutionalisation of international law, Habermas offers themain players in the struggles over the fate of the European Union(the politicians, the political parties and the publics of themember states) a way out of the current economic and politicalcrisis, should they choose to follow it. In the title essay Habermas addresses the challenges and threatsposed by the current banking and public debt crisis in the Eurozonefor European unification. He is harshly critical of theincrementalist, technocratic policies advocated by the Germangovernment in particular, which are being imposed at the expense ofthe populations of the economically weaker, crisis-strickencountries and are undermining solidarity between the member states.He argues that only if the technocratic approach is replaced by adeeper democratization of the European institutions can theEuropean Union fulfil its promise as a model for how rampant marketcapitalism can once again be brought under political control at thesupranational level. This volume reflects the impressive scope of Habermas?s recentwritings on European themes, including theoretical treatments ofthe complex legal and political issues at stake, interventions oncurrent affairs, and reflections on the lives and works of majorEuropean philosophers and intellectuals. Together the essaysprovide eloquent testimony to the enduring relevance of the work ofone of the most influential and far-sighted public intellectuals inthe world today, and are essential reading for all philosophers,legal scholars and social scientists interested in European andglobal issues.

Author : Miguel A. Centeno,Patricio Silva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349261857

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The Politics of Expertise in Latin America by Miguel A. Centeno,Patricio Silva Pdf

The ascendancy of technocratic personnel and their imposition of neo-liberal economic policies have come to define Latin American politics in the 1980s and 1990s. This book is the first comparative analysis of these events and their implications for the future of democracy on the continent. Individual chapters discuss the rise to power of these technocrats in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru as well as the historical antecedents of expert rule in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Author : Christopher J. Bickerton,Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198807766

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Technopopulism by Christopher J. Bickerton,Carlo Invernizzi Accetti Pdf

This is a book about a contemporary transformation in democratic politics: the rise of a new political field, techno-populism.

Author : Patrick M. Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-29
Category : Economics
ISBN : 0986373907

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Technocracy Rising by Patrick M. Wood Pdf

The dark horse of the New World Order is not Communism, Socialism or Fascism. It is Technocracy. With meticulous detail and an abundance of original research, Patrick M. Wood uses "Technocracy Rising" to connect the dots of modern globalization in a way that has never been seen before so that the reader can clearly understand the globalization plan, its perpetrators and its intended endgame. In the heat of the Great Depression during the 1930s, prominent scientists and engineers proposed a utopian energy-based economic system called Technocracy that would be run by those same scientists and engineers instead of elected politicians. Although this radical movement lost momentum by 1940, it regained status when it was conceptually adopted by the elitist Trilateral Commission (co-founded by Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller) in 1973 to be become its so-called ""New International Economic Order."" In the ensuing 41 years, the modern expression of Technocracy and the New International Economic Order is clearly seen in global programs such as Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Councils of Governments, Smart Growth, Smart Grid, Total Awareness surveillance initiatives and more. Wood contends that the only logical outcome of Technocracy is Scientific Dictatorship, as already seen in dystopian literature such as "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley (1932) and "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell (1948), both of whom looked straight into the face of Technocracy when it was still in its infancy. With over 250 footnotes, an extensive bibliography and clarity of writing style, Wood challenges the reader to new levels of insight and understanding into the clear and present danger of Technocracy, and how Americans might be able to reject it once again.

Author : Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691203966

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The Lost History of Liberalism by Helena Rosenblatt Pdf

"The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry - and a term of derision - in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking readers from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words "liberal" and "liberalism," revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their meaning. In this timely and provocative book, Rosenblatt debunks the popular myth of liberalism as a uniquely Anglo-American tradition centered on individual rights. It was only during the Cold War and America's growing world hegemony that liberalism was refashioned into an American ideology focused so strongly on individual freedoms."--