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Tag Archives: technocratic government
Dec 3 2012
Five minutes with Noam Chomsky – “Europe’s policies make sense only on one assumption: that the goal is to try and undermine and unravel the welfare state.”
8 CommentsIn the first of two interviews with EUROPP editors Stuart A Brown and Chris Gilson, Noam Chomsky discusses technocratic governance in Europe, why the eurozone’s austerity policies are failing to solve the crisis, and the rise of the far-right in … Continue reading
Posted by: December 3, 2012
Tagged with: austerity, far right, racism, technocratic government
Apr 16 2012
With Mario Monti’s technocratic government, it is not just the idea of party government which is being damaged in Italy, but the very idea of the political party’s role as an indispensable agent of democracy.
6 CommentsSilvio Berlusconi was Italy’s longest-serving prime minister since Benito Mussolini, and his resignation was a turning point in modern Italian history. Duncan McDonnell argues that his successor Mario Monti’s government marks an era of ‘democracy without choices’. He believes that Monti’s … Continue reading
Posted by: April 16, 2012
Tagged with: democracy, government, Italy, Mario Monti, political parties, politics, Silvio Berlusconi, technocratic government
