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

The origins of technocracy are shrouded in controversy, but most of its leaders were inspired by their association with the social critic Thorstein Veblen, betw

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