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

The ascendancy of technocratic personnel and their imposition of neo-liberal economic policies have come to define Latin American politics in the 1980s and 1990

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