How to Use technocracy in a Sentence

technocracy

noun

• Although its legislature is elected, the union is in many ways a technocracy first.
  — Amanda Taub, New York Times, 29 June 2016
• People in Western countries have been far too quick to throw centrist technocracy into the dustbin of history.
  — Noah Smith, The Denver Post, 23 May 2017
• Howard Scott, a Greenwich Village gasbag, seized the moment to push his philosophy of technocracy.
  — Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 23 June 2019
• California, the undisputed climate leader in the US, has shown that technocracy can work.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 6 Nov. 2018
• First born in the 1950s at the high-water mark for faith in technocracy, the successive institutions that blossomed into today’s EU were always premised on the notion that voters couldn’t be trusted.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
• In other words, technocracy was a project to make peacetime administration look more like wartime mobilization, to make change at scale.
  — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
• And that vision, created at a time when European powers were carving up other parts of the world, was cloaked in metaphors of imperialism, technocracy, and war.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2021
• From Bismarck’s Prussia flowed the current of modern state technocracy that eventually swelled into the deluge that would consume much of the 20th century.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 17 June 2021
• Normal rules of technocracy—everything private, special, secret, privileged—read differently in a place where young people wear snakes around their necks and charge strangers to take their pictures.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2017
• With a party made of novice deputies from various professional backgrounds, technocracy more than anything else has shaped the new president’s governing style.
  — James McAuley, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2017
• Biden intends to revive the patterns of diplomacy and technocracy that had defined late twentieth-century liberalism, and had been thought to have lost their potency.
  — The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2022
• That means the Parliament should be at the center of any attempt to imbue Brussels’s remote technocracy with democratic legitimacy.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
• But some politicians build their careers on technocracy, detail, and competency.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 5 July 2017
• Of course, replacing one form of blind adherence to authority with another—replacing technocracy with a circumscribed set of books blessed by a right-wing Christian consensus—is not the answer.
  — Annie Abrams, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2022
• As an ideology, technocracy holds that the problems in the world are technical problems that require technical solutions.
  — Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2019
• The action is routine, the drama tends toward the banal and sentimental, and the social symbolism of class division and technocracy, while cleverly worked out, isn’t compelling or coherent enough to tie it all together.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 14 May 2020
• Technocrats like to say that entire sectors of public policy are very complicated and therefore no one can propose reforms or even understand the sector without entry into the priesthood of the technocracy.
  — Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2019
• Attempts to expand technocracy will increase support for sidelining experts and elites entirely.
  — Sheri Berman, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2018
• But when Americans begin to prefer the warm blanket of technocracy to the inherent uncertainty of self-determination — when basic freedoms begin to be seen as irresponsible and reckless — our way of life erodes.
  — Nate Hochman, National Review, 24 Oct. 2021
• Kirk was clearly more comfortable with the moral outlook of Smithian political economy than the model-and-measure technocracy of university economics, which certainly would not be granted a place in Kirk’s scholarly pantheon.
  — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 31 Mar. 2021
• Michael doesn’t so much argue as feel that some combination of materialism, technocracy, and individualism is carrying us away from our purpose.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 14 June 2019
• But if undemocratic liberal technocracy is the ultimate driver of the popular revolt, how can a technocratic list of solutions offered by a technocratic think tank be a credible answer?
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• Moreover, as Alexis de Tocqueville saw, that daily participation in local governance can help ward off the tendencies toward atomism and technocracy to which modern democracy is susceptible.
  — Fred Bauer, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019
• Freud’s focus on chaos and irrationality, which both Marcuse and Trilling shared, could be the antidote to certain centrist liberals’ superficial infatuation with science and enlightened technocracy as the solutions to our problems.
  — Udi Greenberg, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2022
• Singing with earnest clarity, Father John Misty indicts selfishness, ignorance, distraction, vanity, politics, self-delusion, dogmatism, technocracy, God and, by no means least, himself.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
• One licenses domineering technocracy; the other, cruder forms of authoritarianism.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• Consumerocracy, bureaucracy, and technocracy promise us greater satisfaction, but don’t deliver.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2020
• Singapore remains an illiberal, albeit effective, technocracy.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2017

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