technocracy

English

techno- (“technical”, “technicians”) +‎ -cracy (“rule by”), attributed to W.H. Smyth.[1]

technocracy (countable and uncountable, plural technocracies)

A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise.
- 1919, William Henry Smyth, Technocracy, first, second and third series, published 1921, page 20:
  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.
- 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:
  Macron may be the best of the existing system, but his politics is located within the liberal-democratic coordinates of the enlightened technocracy.

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

William Henry Smyth (1919) “‘Technocracy’—Ways and Means to Gain Industrial Democracy”, in Technocracy, first, second and third series‎, published 1921

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