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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Technocracy"”.
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PUBLIC OPINION TOWARDS TECHNOCRACY: ATTITUDES, PREFERENCES AND VOTING BEHAVIOR
… with liberal representative democracy. While technocracy and democracy are often portrayed as conceptually opposed—one grounded in expertise, the other in popular sovereignty—empirical developments across Europe reveal more hybrid configurations. From the growing reliance on experts by …
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Technology against technocracy : toward design strategies for critical community technology
This thesis develops an intersectional, critical analysis of the field of practice known as Civic Tech and highlights other relevant community-organizing and activist practices that utilize technology as a central component. First, I develop critiques of Civic Tech as a dominant technocratic, …
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The origins and impact of an American radicalism : a history of Technocracy, Inc.
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Transforming Sustainability thru Adaptive Co-Management: A Critique of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan
… action, we embrace science, but step back from technocracy. We utilize local knowledge, and combine it with expertise.</p>
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ELITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA. EXPLORATORY STUDY ON ELITES' BEHAVIOUR ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND TECHNOCRATIC, TECHNO-POPULIST AND POPULIST ATTITUDES
… and their connection with populism, elitism and technocracy. Such research goals are addressed in this work in three autonomous sections, introduced by an overview of the literature on the concepts that are common to all chapters and concluded by a recapitulation chapter. The first chapter …
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Understanding the transnational and the domestic : the case of the neoliberal restructuring in Chile, 1973-1989
… or transnationally connected domestic actors (technocracy and the army)as they are even able to bring down a democratically elected government, persuadetraditionally apolitical military to adopt an anticommunist approach, and transform aheavily politicised society into a consumerism-oriented …
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Velocidad, tecnología, sociedad y poder en la obra de Paul Virilio y en su crítica
… technological acceleration and different kind of technocracy. We will follow the teachings of Paul Virilio, whose work has been demonstrated that technocracy has been based on un-rootedness, fragmentation and re-totalization of “animal bodies” of men, women and children, “social bodies” of …
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Instrumentalization in the Public Smart Bikeshare Sector
… a backdrop of increasing neoliberalism and technocracy. This is investigated by means of a comparative study of smart public bikeshare schemes in Dublin, Ireland and Hamilton, Canada. These schemes are configured and systemized using a variety of technical and ideological rationales and …
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Theatre : the art of human being : locating the cultural value of theatre in the Age of Broadcast Media and a retrospective paper on the process leading towards the 2000 performance Involving Eternity
… ideological gap in the climate of the emerging technocracy and so I go on to examine these two field in closer detail. My analysis of broadcast media is focused on how these new aesthetic modes can be said to be reforming social perceptions about reality and representation. I draw from the …
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Land administration and regulation model for improved formal delivery and accessibility of urban lands in Nigeria.
… growth, complex bureaucracies, unskilled technocracy, corruption and weak institutional machineries, among others. All these had hampered smooth and efficient delivery processes and finally had decreased delivery and accessibility of urban lands in Nigeria. Therefore, this study was …
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Architecture as an Apparatus of Governance: (British) Architecture from the Welfare State to the State of Neoliberal Workfare
… facilitated a transition towards a neoliberal technocracy in architecture. They transformed the architectural design into a rational economic action and public architecture was reclaimed as a commodity defined by exchange value and was resubmitted to the operations of the market. Moreover, they …
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Constrained Partisanship: A Comparative Study of Policy Choices and Party Discourses in the British and Spanish Crisis Experiences (2008-2014)
… increasingly appeal to expertise and competence (technocracy), legality and legal obligations (legalism) and emergencies and exceptions (exceptionalism). The comparative analysis finds in both the British and Spanish cases a form of what the thesis calls constrained partisanship. All four …
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Modernism and professionalism in American architecture, 1919-1933
… popular terminology of Scientific Management, Technocracy, Fordism, and the nostrums of the 'New Era' and promised 'efficiency' in their work and in the industries they presumed to manage. It reveals that within these efforts of professional redefinition, the professional ideology supporting …
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Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, . . . and C. S. Lewis? Two Revolutionary Philosophical, Moral, and Cultural Critiques
… industry and technology in the form of a growing technocracy, and the resulting loss of personal liberty and dignity through increasing forms of dehumanization in mass culture and society. In this regard, both works belong to the prominent corpus of twentieth-century conservative and radical …
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In the era of normative power Europe
… communities what is referred to as an elite technocracy-influence, champion and marshal how the Caribbean state is socialized inter- and intra-regionally, per moral imperatives. This study determines that this dual 'socializing' engagement is profoundly informed by elite technocrats operating …
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Visions of Dystopia in German Literature, 1913-1957
The following study investigates German dystopian literature. Until now, such literature has been subsumed under the much broader and poorly defined utopian genre. As a result, German dystopianism has not yet been identified as a coherent cultural phenomenon. A primary aim of the project is …
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Feyerabend's Monster and the Critique of Scientism
In this dissertation, I identify and develop the social-democratic tendency within Paul Feyerabend’s political thought to lay the groundwork for a critical social theory of scientism. Across his political writings, Feyerabend develops a critical diagnosis of late modernity vis-à-vis pervasive …
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Toward a More Humane Public Policy: How the Humanities Can, and Should, Inform the Creation and Analysis of Public Policy
<p>This capstone investigates how the methodologies of the humanities can inform the creation and analysis of public policy. Since the mid-twentieth century, public policy has increasingly turned away from humanistic questions and toward technical questions. The result has been a public policy …
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Fabricating humans: From H.G. Wells' Morlock to Karel Čapek's Robot via Zamyatin's OneState & E.M. Forster's Machine
… force in these narratives is the realization of technocracy’s application of science to completely control the individual, eliminate diversity and facilitate totalitarianism.
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