Technocracy (and legal culture)
Abstract
Despite its roots in classical philosophy, the idea of ‘technocracy’ has an increasing significance in contemporary legal and political culture. In the context of what is usually described as the information or knowledge society, the ideal of government by experts, who possess the relevant expertise to make the “best” choices, tends to be associated with the anti-formalistic trends that are becoming prevalent in public and private law. We are witnessing a deep transformation in the expectations that jurists and lay-people have in approaching the legal realm. This entry gathers some paradigmatic examples of the technocratic evolution of contemporary legal culture, as the new governance experiences in the European Union (EU) and the development of innovative patterns of transnational commercial law, in which efficiency is usually taken as one of the defining features of the rule of law.
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