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 demo

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

This book represents the first comprehensive study of how technocracy currently challenges representative democracy and asks how technocratic politics undermine

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

The rise of populist parties and movements across the Western hemisphere and their contempt for ‘experts’ has shocked the establishment. This book examines