technocracy
noun/tɛkˈnɒkɹəsi/
Etymology From techno- (“technical”, “technicians”) + -cracy (“rule by”), attributed to W.H. Smyth.
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A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise.
- 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.1919, William Henry Smyth, Technocracy, first, second and third series, published 1921, page 20:
- Macron may be the best of the existing system, but his politics is located within the liberal-democratic coordinates of the enlightened technocracy.2018 December 17, Slavoj Žižek, “The yellow vest protesters revolting against centrism mean well – but their left wing populism won’t change French politics”, in The Independent:
- Related terms
- technocrat, technocratic