The purpose of this article is to analyse the role of experts in the current COVID-19 crisis with a focus on the lockdown phase. There are many ways and many perspectives in which to do this. Our standpoint will be based on technocratic theory. In other words, we wonder: 1. what is the impact of expertise and technique process on public-decision making? 2. Is a government acting on expertise and technocratic process changing the nature of the socio-political system? First, we will try to define technocracy and technocratic politics in general, after which we will analyse the socio-political characteristics of the pandemic crisis with a special focus on macro-social dimensions. In the third part we will focus on recent technocratic politics during the COVID-19 crisis: our main hypothesis is that a new ambiguous political technocratic configuration, next to traditional “enlightened despotism”, is forming as a result of different emerging effects linked to a series of trends and tensions at a macro-social level during the lockdown phase.
Scopo dell’articolo è analizzare il ruolo degli esperti nell’attuale crisi della COVID-19 con una speciale attenzione sulla fase del lockdown. Il nostropunto di vista sarà basato sulla teoria tecnocratica. In altre parole, ci chiederemo: 1. Qual è l’impatto della competenza e della tecnica sul processo decisionale pubblico. 2. Se un nuovo governo basato sulla tecnica e sugli esperti sta cambiando la natura del sistema socio-politico. Nel primo paragrafo proveremo a definire la tecnocrazia e la politica tecnocratica, in generale. Nel secondo analizzeremo le caratteristiche sociali della crisi pandemica approfondendo, in particolare, le sue dimensioni macro-sociali. Nel terzo paragrafo la nostra attenzione si concentrerà sulla politica tecnocratica ai tempi della COVID-19: la nostra principale ipotesi è che una nuova ambigua configurazione politica tecnocratica – vicina al tradizionale “dispotismo illuminato” – si sia formata, nella fase del lockdown, come risultato della combinazione di effetti emergenti legati a una serie di tendenze e tensioni al livello macro-sociale.
Antonelli, F. (2020). Emerging Aspects in Technocratic Politics at the Time of the SARS COVID-19 Crisis. RIVISTA TRIMESTRALE DI SCIENZA DELL'AMMINISTRAZIONE(2), 1-20 [10.32049/RTSA.2020.2.13].
Emerging Aspects in Technocratic Politics at the Time of the SARS COVID-19 Crisis
francesco antonelli
2020-01-01
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to analyse the role of experts in the current COVID-19 crisis with a focus on the lockdown phase. There are many ways and many perspectives in which to do this. Our standpoint will be based on technocratic theory. In other words, we wonder: 1. what is the impact of expertise and technique process on public-decision making? 2. Is a government acting on expertise and technocratic process changing the nature of the socio-political system? First, we will try to define technocracy and technocratic politics in general, after which we will analyse the socio-political characteristics of the pandemic crisis with a special focus on macro-social dimensions. In the third part we will focus on recent technocratic politics during the COVID-19 crisis: our main hypothesis is that a new ambiguous political technocratic configuration, next to traditional “enlightened despotism”, is forming as a result of different emerging effects linked to a series of trends and tensions at a macro-social level during the lockdown phase.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.