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Technocratic Populism in Hybrid Regimes: Georgia on My Mind and in My Pocket
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Abstract Most studies of technocratic populism have focused on democracies under stress (e.g., Italy, Czech Republic). This article builds on and extends these studies by analyzing a hybrid regime - post-Soviet Georgia - and argues that technocratic populism in this context is utilized as a façade to cover a... mehr
Most studies of technocratic populism have focused on democracies under stress (e.g., Italy, Czech Republic). This article builds on and extends these studies by analyzing a hybrid regime - post-Soviet Georgia - and argues that technocratic populism in this context is utilized as a façade to cover authoritarian and oligarchic tendencies, while suspending (or reversing) democratization efforts. The state apparatus is weaponized against current and potential political opponents. Ideology is irrelevant, loyalty is key, and passivity is encouraged. The government aims to chip away at institutional checks and balances, and to demobilize the public by undermining confidence in the country's representative institutions while increasing dependence on experienced personalities, the 'can do experts.' The result is most often a stable partial-reform equilibrium. We illustrate this argument with evidence from Georgia, where Bidzina Ivanishvili, the richest man in the country, came to power in 2012 and, despite not holding any official position in the government since 2013, has run the state as a firm.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Georgien; UdSSR-Nachfolgestaat; Technokratie; Populismus; politisches System; autoritäres System; Oligarchie
Klassifikation
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Ivanishvili; hybrid regimes; technocratic populism
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 580-589
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 8 (2020) 4
Heftthema
Varieties of Technocratic Populism around the World
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)