Are Populism and Technocracy Constitutive Features of Postwar Representative Democracy in Europe?
Modern democracies are facing severe difficulties from trends toward more technocratic decision-making and the emergence of populist movements and parties. Accompanying occurrences point to problems with representative democratic institutions that democratic theories must recognize and fix. Both populist and epistemic conceptions of democracy, as we have argued in this paper, are incompatible with the profound ... Read More
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