technocratic

technocrat | Business English

technocrat
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈteknəkræt/us
GOVERNMENT
a person with a lot of scientific or technical knowledge who has an important position in a government or in an industry:
Technocrats do not always have the marketing skills necessary to be successful businessmen.

technocratic

adjective
a technocratic system

Examples of technocrat

technocrat
Economic technocrats are likely to have a significant influence on such policy specifics.
It seems, then, that donors and technocrats, rather than the president, drove reform efforts between 1991 and 1995.
The turnover of technocrats in the cabinet has decreased markedly, with their average age dramatically increasing.
These technocrats began to apply technological solutions to economic problems, strove for efficiency and built up state regulatory agencies to administer their reforms.
What resulted was a tripartite alliance among the military elite, the state technocrats, and big business.
Second, among core political actors, we expect the choices of technocrats to be less determined by value rationality than the choices of politicians.
The case studies are intended only to investigate whether there is process evidence for the hypothesized crisis-era roles of dispersed groups and technocrats.
In democracies, the autonomy of leaders and technocrats is subject to a dispersed group support constraint.
Second, he argues that political considerations, not the prescriptions of technocrats, were the motive force behind economic policy in both countries.
Second, the crisis approach should be elaborated with an emphasis on the related roles of dispersed interest groups and technocrats.
A second political influence runs through economic technocrats.
As argued above, there were internal pressures for liberalisation from both the private sector and ' technocrats ' in the government.
In the 1890s, there was still a sense amongst city councillors and technocrats that the city was clearly limited and constrained.
The other important contribution to systemic corruption is the rise of charismatic politicians, technocrats, bureaucrats, and military commanders with their visions and ambitions.
Not an economist or technocrat himself, he always had an open ear for the advocates of the necessity of elements of self-management.
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