technocracy

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛkˈnɒkɹəsi/

Noun

technocracy (countable and uncountable, plural technocracies)

1. 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^[2]:

     Macron may be the best of the existing system, but his politics is located within the liberal-democratic coordinates of the enlightened technocracy.

Related terms

• technocrat
• technocratic

 

Translations

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

• Asturian: teunocracia f
• Belarusian: тэхнакра́тыя f (texnakrátyja)
• Bulgarian: технокра́ция f (tehnokrácija)
• Catalan: tecnocràcia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 專家統治／专家统治 (zhuānjiā tǒngzhì)

• Czech: technokracie f
• Danish: teknokrati n
• Dutch: technocratie (nl) f
• Esperanto: teĥnokratio, teknokratio
• Finnish: teknokratia (fi)
• French: technocratie (fr) f
• Galician: tecnocracia (gl) f
• Georgian: ტექნოკრატია (ṭeknoḳraṭia)
• German: Technokratie (de) f
• Greek: τεχνοκρατία (el) f (technokratía)
• Hungarian: technokrácia (hu)
• Icelandic: tækniveldi n
• Indonesian: teknokrasi (id)
• Irish: teicnealathas m
• Italian: tecnocrazia (it) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 테크노크라시 (tekeunokeurasi), 기술 관료정치 (gisul gwallyojeongchi)
• Latvian: tehnokrātija f
• Lithuanian: technokratija (lt) f
• Macedonian: технократија f (tehnokratija)
• Malay: teknokrasi
• Polish: technokracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: tecnocracia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਤਕਨੀਕੀਰਾਜ m (taknīkīrāj)
• Romanian: tehnocrație (ro)
• Russian: технокра́тия (ru) f (texnokrátija)
• Spanish: tecnocracia (es) f
• Swahili: teknokrasia class n
• Swedish: teknokrati (sv)
• Turkish: teknokrasi (tr)
• Ukrainian: технокра́тія (uk) f (texnokrátija)
• Welsh: technocratiaeth f

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