)—has become disfigured ( Urbinati 2014 ). Three democratic disfigurations are key theoretically and empirically—technocracy, populism, and plebiscitarianism ( Urbinati 2014 ). Technocracy promises to rescue democracy from its cacophonic partisanship
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Central and Eastern Europe
The Rise of Autocracy and Democratic Resilience
Petra Guasti
Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo
) argues there are three types of Bolivian women's movements ‘ideologically polarized’ in the 1990s: liberal, NGO-based ‘gender technocracy’ and anarcho-feminism. In her view, CIDEM falls within the category of gender technocracy because focusing on one
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Guiding Girls
Neoliberal Governance and Government Educational Resource Manuals in Canada
Lisa Smith and Stephanie Paterson
Women . 2014 . Guide for Girls! ( 3rd ed.) Government of Nova Scotia . Paterson , Stephanie , Patrik Marier , and Felix Chu . 2016 . “ Technocracy or Transformation? Mapping Women’s Policy Agencies and Orienting Gender (In)Equality in the
Amanda J. Reinke
quote. The resulting technocracy is what he terms ‘technical superiority’ over other organisational systems, in which bureaucracy marshals speed, clarity of procedure and knowledge, and practical precision such that it is the optimal organising
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Introduction
Desire for the political in the aftermath of the Cold War
Dace Dzenovska and Nicholas De Genova
grievances of “the people” regarding deteriorating living standards, the paucity of life prospects, technocracy, and the alienation wrought by the oblique forces of “globalization.” In this regard, it is instructive to recall Wilhelm Reich’s ([1933] 1970
