{"id":8224,"date":"2024-09-18T10:56:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T08:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reverent-antonelli.23-88-7-78.plesk.page\/member\/prof-stefan-rummens\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:39:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:39:46","slug":"prof-stefan-rummens","status":"publish","type":"member","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/member\/prof-stefan-rummens\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Stefan Rummens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Prof. Stefan Rummens is Full Professor of Political Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of KU Leuven (Belgium)<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research project title:<\/strong><br\/>Populism and technocracy: opposite threats to our democratic society?<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research abstract:<\/strong><br\/>The hypothesis that populism and technocracy are opposite and mutually reinforcing threats to our democratic society is investigated through three more specific resesarch questions:<br\/>1\/ What is technocracy? The starting point here is J\u00fcrgen Habermas&#8217;s analysis of technocracy in the context of the Keynesian welfare state. The goal is to make an update of this analysis by investigating how the rise of the neoliberal regime and the transition from government to governance have changed the nature of technocracy.<br\/>2\/ Are populism and technocracy opposite threats to democracy? In previous work I have argued that populism should be seen as an attempted closure of the empty place of power (Lefort). Now, the aim is to investigate to what extent technocracy should be analysed as an attempted dissolution of the empty place of power.<br\/>3\/ Is there a mutually reinforcing dynamic between populism and technocracy? The idea under investigation here is that the rise of (neoliberal) technocracy has created the social and political preconditions for the rise of populism and that, the other way around, the threat of populism only reinforces the depoliticizing tendencies of the current technocratic regime.     <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Events:<\/strong><br\/><em>November 9, 2021<\/em><br\/><strong>Lecture at the Colloquium Political Theory<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Stefan Rummens is Full Professor of Political Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of KU Leuven (Belgium) Research project title:Populism and technocracy: opposite threats to our democratic society? Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1611,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"position":[213],"institute":[],"class_list":["post-8224","member","type-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","position-former-fellow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member\/8224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/member"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"institute","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institute?post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}