technocrat
The economic ministers appointed were less political and more technocratic than their predecessors.
Let us have a secular, powerful and technocratic leadership and not the one which you helped establish based on sect and race.
The government is getting used to making decisions in its technocratic circle without taking into account the problems which affect normal people.
In America, computers and telephones are potent symbols of organized authority and the technocratic business elite.
This is the technocratic view, that experts' opinions carry a greater weight than other people's.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Experts and specialists
academician
artist
authority
boffin
child prodigy
doyenne
know something inside outidiom
lapidary
Latin Americanist
literati
maven
Renaissance man
savant
semiotician
skilled
smart money
whizz
wonder
wonderkid
wunderkind

Examples of technocratic

technocratic
This was a thoroughly technocratic strategy because it privileged methods over goals.
This technocratic approach may be partly successful but often at the cost of isolating and stigmatising the beneficiaries.
Successive governments (usually from the technocratic ministries) announced plans to push for market-oriented changes.
The first was administrative and technocratic : to improve the capacity of the administration's staff.
A neo-liberal and technocratic ideology portrays these actors as rational and entrepreneurial agents responding to local technical or market exigencies.
Second, such technocratic influence is likely to be stronger to the extent that there is something close to an optimal policy consensus among professional economists.
The unpredictability in science in general entails that the technocratic ideal of the discovery of an optimal solution to social decisions is untenable.
It emerges convincingly that technocratic development approaches based on universalistic views of ' good farming ' shape and sharpen boundaries between social groups and categories.
In fact, in some ways his view of his own role and authority was technocratic.
Moreover, there is a long tradition of populist or technocratic presidential contenders who, despite losing, attracted substantial popular support.
Evans thereby misses out the social structures and strategies of technocratic elites and professionally qualified expert groups.
Thus, the aid agencies engender forms of socio-political organisations in the villages under the cover of their participatory or technocratic ideology.
Instead, the industrial policy was chosen by otherwise liberal-minded political and technocratic elites.
An important element of this, which is essential to avoid the dangers of rule by technocratic elites, is to foster a more discursive rationality.
In a chapter of examples of health system 'accidents', the authors eliminate any possibility of reverting to simple technocratic solutions.
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