Technopopulism: The New Logic of Democratic Politics

Author:   Christopher J. Bickerton (Reader in Modern European Politics, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge) ,  Carlo Invernizzi Accetti (Associate Professor in Political Theory, Associate Professor in Political Theory, City College of New York (CUNY))
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 February 2021
Format:   Hardback
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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 technopopulismDLa new political logic that is being superimposed on the traditional struggle between left and right. Political movements and actorsDLsuch as Italy's Five Star Movement and France's La Republiqe En MarcheDLcombine 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.

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Author:   Christopher J. Bickerton (Reader in Modern European Politics, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge) ,  Carlo Invernizzi Accetti (Associate Professor in Political Theory, Associate Professor in Political Theory, City College of New York (CUNY))
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9780198807766


ISBN 10:   0198807767
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: The Concept of Technopopulism 2: Varieties of Technopopulism 3: The Origins of Technopopulism 4: Consequences of Technopopulism 5: Normative Reflections on Technopopulism Conclusion: Beyond Technopopulism?

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This first-rate study shows how one of the main challenges to party democracy comes from within. As Bickerton and Invernizzi Accetti lucidly explain, rather than caught between technocrats and populists, elected representatives today are imitating and blending their claims, hoping to strengthen their own legitimacy. 'Technopopulism' is where it leads: the book offers an excellent account of the trends unfolding and the normative questions at stake. * Jonathan White, London School of Economics * A remarkably original and illuminating work, from which both political scientists and politicians can learn an immense amount * Richard Tuck, Harvard University * This excellent book achieves two important results: it fills a void of knowledge and names a key contemporary political phenomenon. In decoding the common grammar that underpins both populism and technocracy, it sheds new light on the present crisis of our representative democracies. * Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University * This conceptually innovative book helps us understand one of the peculiar political phenomena of our day: the convergence of technocracy and populism. It is also excellent in making sense of larger developments in contemporary European politics, and it contains an important normative theory of why democracies cannot do without political parties. * Jan-Werner Muller, Princeton University *


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Dr Christopher J. Bickerton is a Reader in Modern European Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. He is also Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. His books include European Union Foreign Policy (2011), European Integration: From Nation-States to Member States (2012), and the best-selling The European Union: A Citizen's Guide (2016), which was nominated for the Baillie-Gifford non-fiction book prize. He has written regularly for the New York Times, The Guardian and the Monde Diplomatique. He is a regular panelist on the podcast Talking Politics. Dr Carlo Invernizzi Accetti is an Associate Professor in Political Theory at the City College of New York (CUNY). He is also Associate Researcher at the Centre for European Studies of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and Visiting Associate Professor of European Politics at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). His books include Relativism and Religion: Why Democratic Societies Do Not Need Moral Absolutes (Columbia UP, 2015) and What is Christian Democracy? Politics, Religion, and Ideology (Cambridge UP, 2019). He has published widely in academic journals, including in the American Political Science Review. He is a regular contributor on European and US political affairs for The Financial Times, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, La Repubblica, and the Monde Diplomatique.

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