Technocracy

Definitions

A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“When scientific imagination and knowledge of Nature's Laws are substituted in our economics for chance, mystery, and magic;[…] when this economic childish irrationality is sanely substituted by organized Science, Technology, and specialized Skill co-ordinated in National Industrial Management, then will begin⟳ real civilization, the Age of Social Sanity, — Technocracy.”

“Macron may be the best of the existing system, but his politics is located within the liberal-democratic coordinates of the enlightened technocracy.”

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