Through Knowledge to Power: How Modern Transformations of Society Create New Dimensions of Political Power

Ляховенко, О.И.

Автор: Ляховенко О.И.
Журнал: Journal of US-China Public Administration
Том: 12
Номер: 6
Год издания: 2015
Первая страница: 460
Последняя страница: 468
DOI: 10.17265/1548-6591/2015.06.004
Аннотация: Since famous writings by Galbraith, Bell, and Toffler, we know that modern conditions of economic competition, technical progress, and growing speed of information flows raise the role of organized knowledge in social life. In the middle of 20th century, growing complexity of society and production processes gives birth to “The New Industrial State” as difficult system based on knowledge, specialization, and unique competences. Here rises the technostructure. In the very end of 20th century, most developed countries turn to post-industrial society. Society itself becomes more and more complex. Developing technologies of communication fasten all the social processes. Also, politics faces the third wave of democratization and vast expanding of non-governmental bodies, competing parties, and new political actors. As a result, political scientists, analysts, “think tanks”, spin-doctors, political experts, and security advisers—all who can be called knowledge elite—become a significant part of both political and administrative power. To the extent they take part in policy making, influence on decision-making or are involved in everyday, routine work of political and administrative institutions, they could be supposed as technostructure of political sphere. However, knowledge elite is not—and probably will never be—a strong body which suppose itself to be an autonomous subject in politics or could dictate its will to decision-makers. Politics still remains a realm of political will, where elites possess power, electorate chooses politicians, parties compete between themselves. But even if classical idea of power still belongs to traditional actors and institutions, new dimensions of power emerge from knowledge elite.
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