As I noted (recall) earlier in the week, a blog post (here) by the French scholar, Cyril Hédoin, got me to read Jeffrey Friedman’s (2019) Power without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy (OUP).
A side point, but maybe relevant. Political polarization is US-specific. Looking at other OECD countries, there's no general trend. That counts against explanations of polarization based on technology, social media and so on
A side point, but maybe relevant. Political polarization is US-specific. Looking at other OECD countries, there's no general trend. That counts against explanations of polarization based on technology, social media and so on
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/us-voters-are-increasingly-polarised-over-politics-but-brits-are-far-less-stubborn