The trajectory of the Indian National Congress is often narrated as one progressive and terminal decline. This article focuses on a largely neglected period in history INC from 1980s when party was subject to techno-managerial reforms intended revitalise party. Launched under Rajiv Gandhi, this modernisation project entailed use large-scale data collection, computerisation, technocrats for mana...

This chapter is concerned with exploring an alternative organizing vision for effective e-participation relevant to developing countries in Africa. The premise is that e-participation, as an e-government artifact, remains relatively poorly developed at the levels of theory and practice. The presentation adopts an explanatory critique by drawing on various perspectives; some of which are grounde...

Debates in and over the European Union (EU) are increasingly characterised as being based arguments that either ‘populist’ or ‘technocratic’. As systems of communication, this article argues, populism technocracy possess dramatically different logics argumentation, modes communication meaning-making, distinct narratives, with appeals to sources legitimacy. such, actors adopting political style ...

The unprecedented World Health Organization orchestrated lockdown and public health measures in response to the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic were enacted by virtually every government worldwide. In many countries, but especially United States, long-standing political animosities congealed into a discourse of dehumanization between liberal establishment adherents anti-state revolutionaries. Left...

Despite anticipated curtailment of their powers, the past decade saw technocratic actors take on an increasingly powerful role in economic governance. Focusing EU, I analyse these epochal shifts as a move away from market liberal paradigm that informed 1992 European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The EMU combines highly restrictive attitude to public money creation with permissive laissez-f...

This article explores how national executives in Serbia and Bulgaria address European Union (EU) rule of law conditionality by framing it within the populism/technocracy dichotomy. The remains one main problems EU relations with two countries. While acknowledging nuances pre- post-enlargement Europeanisation, this technocratic populist narratives exploited their interactions domestic public. Ra...