Anders Esmark
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4154608 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anders Esmark |
| PRENOMES | Anders |
| SOBRENOME | Esmark |
| ASSINATURA | ESMARK A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5014-5246 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
How technocratic is the power elite? A new approach and evidence from a mixed-method study of the Danish power elite
Does Ethnicity Affect Allocation of Unemployment-Related Benefits to Job Center Clients? A Survey-Experimental Study of Representative Bureaucracy in Denmark
The role of street-level bureaucracy in social policy has been taken up by two relatively distinct streams of research, based on Lipsky's foundational work (2010). One group of literature has focused on the organizational working conditions, practices and coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats, their impact on the implementation of political programs and reforms, and the scope for discretion in the face of political pressures and instituti…
Is there a behavioral revolution in policy design? A new agenda and inventory of the behavioral toolbox
The article argues for a revised research on behavioral public policy focused on the core claim and sine qua non of a behavioral “revolution”: the ability to produce equal or better outcomes with less stringent policy designs than in traditional solutions, at least for certain types of problems. Three contributions to such an agenda are proposed. First, the article argues that the growing focus on the evaluation of real-world behavioral policy pr…
How does crisis affect the conflict between technocracy and populism? Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic
The article focuses on the relationship between technocracy and populism during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis. On one hand, this relationship has been defined by populist denial, displacement of crisis, and rejection of the technocratic consensus on the need for urgent and decisive action in the face of the global pandemic. On the other hand, COVID-19 has also led to convergence between the two sides and populist approximation to technocr…
The New Technocracy
The New Technocracy
Setting a new benchmark for studies of technocracy, the book shows that a solution to the challenge of populism will depend as much on a technocratic retreat as democratic innovation. Esmark examines the development since the 1980s of a new 'post-industrial' technocratic regime and its complicity in the populist backlash against politics and political elites that is visible today. The new technocracy – a combination of network governance, risk ma…
Limits to Liberal Government
In contrast to the widely voiced notion about a current neoliberal hegemony, the article seeks to demonstrate that the distinctly liberal form of governmental rationality and practice is neither neoliberal, at least not in the conventional sense of the word, nor hegemonic. Rather than a minimal government pursuing laissez-faire politics, liberal government is an ‘omnipresent’ form of government aiming to widen and deepen a particular regulatory g…
Deserving social benefits? Political framing and media framing of ‘deservingness’ in two welfare reforms in Denmark
The article contributes to the growing literature on framing of deservingness as an alternative to ‘blame avoidance’ strategies in the politics of welfare retrenchment. In particular, the article focuses on the interplay between political framing and media framing. Based on an analysis of two major welfare reforms involving reductions of social benefits in Denmark in 2005 and 2013, the article analyses the frames used by politicians supporting an…
The informational logics of liberal democracy. Making sense of the nudging agenda
Maybe It Is Time to Rediscover Technocracy? An Old Framework for a New Analysis of Administrative Reforms in the Governance Era
The article argues that recent decades of administrative policy and reform have led to the emergence of a late modern technocracy, defined by the intersecting ideas and principles of connective governance, risk management, and performance management. Connectivity, risk, and performance have remained consistent concerns across the various market-based and/or network-based alternatives to bureaucracy found in New Public Management (NPM) and post-NP…
Governmentality and the Political (System)
Good Governance in Network Society
This paper critically assesses the implications of the "good governance" program and its underpinning network approach to public governance—that is, the increased reliance on more or less informal networks as a way to mobilize and engage citizens, firms, and organizations in the development, implementation, and monitoring of public policy. We begin by positioning the network approach to public governance within the broader notion of an emerging n…
The Functional Differentiation of Governance
The article explores the relation between the functional differentiation of society and the transformation of public governance. Based on the analysis of functional differentiation provided by Niklas Luhmann, the article interprets functional differentiation as the historical constitution of the basic and encompassing governance traditions in modern society, defined by the governance mediums of so‐called function systems and the various programme…
Tracing the National Mandate
The article analyses the Europeanization of the Danish national administration. The article offers a revision of the standard image of Danish adaptation to EU membership as being highly centralized and formalized. Rather, the Danish experience involves substantial polity change in terms of new institutions and procedures as well as a change in the overall approach to the EU. Whereas the initial response to membership favoured a strategy for polit…
Good Governance in Network Society
This paper critically assesses the implications of the "good governance" program and its underpinning network approach to public governance—that is, the increased reliance on more or less informal networks as a way to mobilize and engage citizens, firms, and organizations in the development, implementation, and monitoring of public policy. We begin by positioning the network approach to public governance within the broader notion of an emerging n…
Maybe It Is Time to Rediscover Technocracy? An Old Framework for a New Analysis of Administrative Reforms in the Governance Era
The article argues that recent decades of administrative policy and reform have led to the emergence of a late modern technocracy, defined by the intersecting ideas and principles of connective governance, risk management, and performance management. Connectivity, risk, and performance have remained consistent concerns across the various market-based and/or network-based alternatives to bureaucracy found in New Public Management (NPM) and post-NP…
Deserving social benefits? Political framing and media framing of ‘deservingness’ in two welfare reforms in Denmark
The article contributes to the growing literature on framing of deservingness as an alternative to ‘blame avoidance’ strategies in the politics of welfare retrenchment. In particular, the article focuses on the interplay between political framing and media framing. Based on an analysis of two major welfare reforms involving reductions of social benefits in Denmark in 2005 and 2013, the article analyses the frames used by politicians supporting an…
The Functional Differentiation of Governance
The article explores the relation between the functional differentiation of society and the transformation of public governance. Based on the analysis of functional differentiation provided by Niklas Luhmann, the article interprets functional differentiation as the historical constitution of the basic and encompassing governance traditions in modern society, defined by the governance mediums of so‐called function systems and the various programme…
How does crisis affect the conflict between technocracy and populism? Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic
The article focuses on the relationship between technocracy and populism during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis. On one hand, this relationship has been defined by populist denial, displacement of crisis, and rejection of the technocratic consensus on the need for urgent and decisive action in the face of the global pandemic. On the other hand, COVID-19 has also led to convergence between the two sides and populist approximation to technocr…
Tracing the National Mandate
The article analyses the Europeanization of the Danish national administration. The article offers a revision of the standard image of Danish adaptation to EU membership as being highly centralized and formalized. Rather, the Danish experience involves substantial polity change in terms of new institutions and procedures as well as a change in the overall approach to the EU. Whereas the initial response to membership favoured a strategy for polit…
Is there a behavioral revolution in policy design? A new agenda and inventory of the behavioral toolbox
The article argues for a revised research on behavioral public policy focused on the core claim and sine qua non of a behavioral “revolution”: the ability to produce equal or better outcomes with less stringent policy designs than in traditional solutions, at least for certain types of problems. Three contributions to such an agenda are proposed. First, the article argues that the growing focus on the evaluation of real-world behavioral policy pr…
How technocratic is the power elite? A new approach and evidence from a mixed-method study of the Danish power elite
Governmentality and the Political (System)
Tracing the National Mandate
The article analyses the Europeanization of the Danish national administration. The article offers a revision of the standard image of Danish adaptation to EU membership as being highly centralized and formalized. Rather, the Danish experience involves substantial polity change in terms of new institutions and procedures as well as a change in the overall approach to the EU. Whereas the initial response to membership favoured a strategy for polit…
Good Governance in Network Society
This paper critically assesses the implications of the "good governance" program and its underpinning network approach to public governance—that is, the increased reliance on more or less informal networks as a way to mobilize and engage citizens, firms, and organizations in the development, implementation, and monitoring of public policy. We begin by positioning the network approach to public governance within the broader notion of an emerging n…
The Functional Differentiation of Governance
The article explores the relation between the functional differentiation of society and the transformation of public governance. Based on the analysis of functional differentiation provided by Niklas Luhmann, the article interprets functional differentiation as the historical constitution of the basic and encompassing governance traditions in modern society, defined by the governance mediums of so‐called function systems and the various programme…
Governmentality and the Political (System)
The informational logics of liberal democracy. Making sense of the nudging agenda
Maybe It Is Time to Rediscover Technocracy? An Old Framework for a New Analysis of Administrative Reforms in the Governance Era
The article argues that recent decades of administrative policy and reform have led to the emergence of a late modern technocracy, defined by the intersecting ideas and principles of connective governance, risk management, and performance management. Connectivity, risk, and performance have remained consistent concerns across the various market-based and/or network-based alternatives to bureaucracy found in New Public Management (NPM) and post-NP…
Deserving social benefits? Political framing and media framing of ‘deservingness’ in two welfare reforms in Denmark
The article contributes to the growing literature on framing of deservingness as an alternative to ‘blame avoidance’ strategies in the politics of welfare retrenchment. In particular, the article focuses on the interplay between political framing and media framing. Based on an analysis of two major welfare reforms involving reductions of social benefits in Denmark in 2005 and 2013, the article analyses the frames used by politicians supporting an…
Limits to Liberal Government
In contrast to the widely voiced notion about a current neoliberal hegemony, the article seeks to demonstrate that the distinctly liberal form of governmental rationality and practice is neither neoliberal, at least not in the conventional sense of the word, nor hegemonic. Rather than a minimal government pursuing laissez-faire politics, liberal government is an ‘omnipresent’ form of government aiming to widen and deepen a particular regulatory g…
The New Technocracy
The New Technocracy
Setting a new benchmark for studies of technocracy, the book shows that a solution to the challenge of populism will depend as much on a technocratic retreat as democratic innovation. Esmark examines the development since the 1980s of a new 'post-industrial' technocratic regime and its complicity in the populist backlash against politics and political elites that is visible today. The new technocracy – a combination of network governance, risk ma…
Is there a behavioral revolution in policy design? A new agenda and inventory of the behavioral toolbox
The article argues for a revised research on behavioral public policy focused on the core claim and sine qua non of a behavioral “revolution”: the ability to produce equal or better outcomes with less stringent policy designs than in traditional solutions, at least for certain types of problems. Three contributions to such an agenda are proposed. First, the article argues that the growing focus on the evaluation of real-world behavioral policy pr…
How does crisis affect the conflict between technocracy and populism? Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic
The article focuses on the relationship between technocracy and populism during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis. On one hand, this relationship has been defined by populist denial, displacement of crisis, and rejection of the technocratic consensus on the need for urgent and decisive action in the face of the global pandemic. On the other hand, COVID-19 has also led to convergence between the two sides and populist approximation to technocr…
Does Ethnicity Affect Allocation of Unemployment-Related Benefits to Job Center Clients? A Survey-Experimental Study of Representative Bureaucracy in Denmark
The role of street-level bureaucracy in social policy has been taken up by two relatively distinct streams of research, based on Lipsky's foundational work (2010). One group of literature has focused on the organizational working conditions, practices and coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats, their impact on the implementation of political programs and reforms, and the scope for discretion in the face of political pressures and instituti…
How technocratic is the power elite? A new approach and evidence from a mixed-method study of the Danish power elite
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