After the Cartel Party: ‘Extra-Party’ and ‘Intra-Party’ Techno-Populism

Piquer, José M.; Jäger, Anton

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“…Two conditions are conducive for the emergence of technocratic populism-the implosion of the existing party system (Castaldo & Verzichelli, 2020;Perottino & Guasti, 2020) and the exhaustion of the left-right ideological cleavage (Buštíková & Guasti, 2019). Technocratic populism combines the redemptive promise of populism with the technocratic promise of competent governance (Aprasidze & Siroky, 2020; Perottino & Guasti, 2020) and can restructure intra-party logic (Piquer & Jäger, 2020). It rejects existing parties and political ideologies as obsolete and it attacks established and other populist parties as incompetent.…”

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A Marriage of Convenience: Responsive Populists and Responsible Experts

Guasti

Buštíková

2020

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This thematic issue, “Varieties of Technocratic Populism around the World,” investigates ideological origins of technocratic populism and situates it among other types of populism. It is composed of 11 articles that bring together 18 scholars from around the world with a wide variety of perspectives. Technocratic populism is an output-oriented populism that directly links voters to leaders via expertise. It emerges as a response to a crisis of governance, reproaches mainstream parties for it and offers solutions that challenge traditional left–right divisions in politics. New leaders combine populism with technocracy: They offer expertise, often harnessed in business, but also a direct, personalized link to ‘ordinary’ citizens. Above all, they politicize expertise to gain legitimacy. Technocratic populism primarily responds to frustrations of the electorate with poor governance, not to nativist grievances or to the plight of the most vulnerable citizens. In a new social contract, it is expected that voters renounce politics and political parties and that they turn into spectators who observe how technocratic elites adopt solutions that benefit the ‘ordinary people.’ Technocratic populism is a growing challenge to pluralistic forms of representative democracy and calls for further scholarly attention.

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“…Three are also two-country comparisons. Piquer and Jäger (2020) see the cartelization of party systems as a driving factor for the rise of intra-and extra-party techno-populist logic, focusing on the UK and Spain. Snegovaya (2020) compares voter attitudes in France and the Czech Republic.…”

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A Marriage of Convenience: Responsive Populists and Responsible Experts

Guasti

Buštíková

2020

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“…A burgeoning empirical literature has also examined technocratic attitudes among public servants (Andersen, 2021;Raudla, Douglas, & Mohr, 2021;Ribbhagen, 2011;Tortola & Tarlea, 2021;Wood, 2021) and support for technocratic politicians and forms of politics among the voting public (Bertsou & Caramani, 2020;Bertsou & Pastorella, 2017;Lavezzolo, Ramiro, & Fernández-Vázquez, 2021) in Western democracies. Another strand of literature has delineated the rise of 'technopopulism'-the blending of technocratic and populist 'modes of political action'-as the dominant political logic of contemporary Western democracy (Bickerton & Invernizzi-Accetti, 2021;Caramani, 2017;Kriesi, 2014;Piquer & Jäger, 2020).…”

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Technocracy Ascendant: Central Banking and Ideology after 2008

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<p>Adopting a Gramscian view of the current era as one of organic crisis and intellectual and ideological disorientation among the ruling classes, this thesis explores the changing forms and ideological dimensions of technocratic economic governance following the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007–2009 and into the Covid-19 era. I focus on the major central banks of the capitalist core and pursue two main lines of investigation: (1) theorizing the evolving role and expanding power of central banks within the post-GFC context of organic crisis; and (2) providing case studies of intellectual and ideological disorientation and attempted reorientation in central banking. The thesis introduction lays out my research problematic and my theoretical and conceptual framework. Chapter 1 critically examines the institutional character and strategic orientations of today’s formally independent central banks, building a nuanced reading of these organizations as public–private governors that operate as power centres of finance capital. Chapter 2 considers the political-economic terrain in which these power centres of finance capital have intervened since 2007, providing a comparative review of the literature on the proximate and structural causes of the GFC, the related Eurozone Crisis of 2009–2015, and the Covid-19-induced financial panic of March/April 2020. Focusing on the Federal Reserve System (Fed) and the European Central Bank (ECB) as illustrative case studies, chapter 3 traces out the development and implementation of novel forms of emergency liquidity support over this crisis period. Here, I delineate the rise of the ‘derisking’ (Gabor 2020) central bank and argue that it is a core component of ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’ as a form of governance. Chapters 4 and 5 turn to examine how central bankers have responded to the repoliticization of ‘the economy’ and its management in the decade following the GFC. I develop an original conception of central bankers as organic intellectuals of finance capital—technical specialists and political operatives who produce authoritative interpretations of how monetary and financial systems work and how they should be managed. Chapter 4 examines a large body of speeches from high-ranking officials at the Fed and the ECB from 2009–2020. Focusing on how they frame and seek to make sense of the repoliticization of the economy and their place in it, I delineate and critically interrogate three core ideological narratives: (1) a climate of fear, (2) authoritarian neoliberalism, and (3) stakeholder capitalism. Chapter 5 extends this analysis by critically examining the intellectual reorientation of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) following the GFC. I trace out the unique economic imaginary of what I call Global Balance-Sheet Capitalism that has developed at the BIS over this period and critically examine how the bank has sought to deploy this imaginary in defence of financial globalization as a political project. A short concluding chapter considers some of the implications of this research for contemporary socialist politics.</p>

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The Technocratic Populist Loop: Clashes Between Parliamentary and Popular Sovereignty in EU’s Eastern and Southern Periphery

Tudzarovska,

Rone

2023

Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics

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After the Cartel Party: ‘Extra-Party’ and ‘Intra-Party’ Techno-Populism

Cited by 11 publications

References 36 publications

A Marriage of Convenience: Responsive Populists and Responsible Experts

A Marriage of Convenience: Responsive Populists and Responsible Experts

Technocracy Ascendant: Central Banking and Ideology after 2008

The Technocratic Populist Loop: Clashes Between Parliamentary and Popular Sovereignty in EU’s Eastern and Southern Periphery

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