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This is a book about a contemporary transformation in democratic politics: the rise of a new political field, techno-populism.
List 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?
About the author
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.
Summary
This is a book about a contemporary transformation in democratic politics: the rise of a new political field, techno-populism.
Additional text
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.
