Theirs was a generation that emphasized technocratic, expert policymaking, not democratic processes. |
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In recent years, academic credentials and technocratic knowledge have become more important than political and electoral experience. |
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The hero is on the run for some vague crime against a technocratic society. |
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Latham is overly fond of a technocratic style of language, favoured by business elites. |
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Workfare regimes are not monolithic systems, but dynamic configurations of restless reform, technocratic emulation, and tangled scalar relations. |
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It's a gargantuan challenge, but the possibility of continuing with a remote, technocratic Europe died this week. |
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Kierans did not share the technocratic credentialism that would eventually make the MBA degree such a hot academic commodity. |
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The need for greater democracy is not an idea dreamt up by the technocratic institutions of the industrialized world. |
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Currently the tools for tools for measuring results are technocratic and reductive. |
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It noted that the dam programme under SIWUP appeared to be rather technocratic as opposed to a community-driven project. |
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Or do you simply defer to a technocratic system where you allow the best and brightest scientific minds to deal with these questions? |
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Perhaps the most significant lesson to be drawn from the story of dams is the danger of relying solely upon top-down, technocratic planning. |
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This approach, although often grounded in good intention, can easily morph into a technocratic authoritarianism. |
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In place of passionate political arguments we have a desiccated debate on the euro polarised between technocratic proponents and emotional opponents. |
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Management consultants were drafted in to add technocratic know-how to patrician generalism. |
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That flirtation with democracy prompted finance minister Evangelos Venizelos to rebel and trigged a technocratic government. |
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Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme. |
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For all his technocratic brilliance, however, Gamal desperately lacks any hint of a common touch. |
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Nonetheless, the fact remains that these votes were, from a technocratic perspective, very risky. |
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The method devised by Jean Monnet, the EU's forefather, was to move in half-steps, justified on technocratic merit. |
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The futurists she meets are full of bold predictions and technocratic optimism. |
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Greenspan cultivated an oracular air, his utterances vague and technocratic yet hinting at shamanistic powers. |
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What is happening to the campaigning steamroller that was going to propel the new prophets of technocratic and meritocracy craving Labor into power? |
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Within a business, someone with the technocratic mindset does not get very far. |
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The EU's business is often too technocratic and complex to evince strong political emotions. |
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Generally, soft security seeks to be humane and liberalist rather than impersonally technocratic. |
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Data protection and GMOs are not mere technocratic concerns, and the rules for them should not be dispassionately crafted by number-crunchers. |
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Manchester's pragmatic political culture is technocratic and focused on outputs rather than grandstanding. |
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As a result, his rhetoric on things like pushing power from the state towards civil society ended up being stiflingly technocratic. |
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In stark contrast with the sunny personality of his predecessor, Tony Blair, Brown's demeanor is dour, recessive and technocratic. |
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It was a too strong giveaway of a technocratic rationale that does not reflect what Europe's founding fathers wanted and accomplished. |
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The war in Afghanistan-notwithstanding the technocratic bon mots of the Manley reportis a rite of passage. |
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But by politicising or paralysing the technocratic Fed, it could have dangerous consequences. Begin with the confusions. |
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And why he matters Go forth and don't multiply ReprintsThere is no doubt that working such things out has its technocratic excitements. |
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Vickers has put forward a clever, technocratic answer to the question of risk that creates Chinese walls inside banks. |
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At the heart of the technocratic agenda was trade liberalization, which threatened the protectionist policies that had coddled the native oligarchs. |
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Very often, the contents of a constitution are debated within a restricted and generally technocratic circle. |
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I repeat, quick follow-up was required, but Allan Rock gave an exceedingly technocratic speech. |
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Basic rights were suspended and a technocratic caretaker government appointed. |
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Just as important is to create a competent and technocratic civil service that isolates decision-making from political pressure. |
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The Minister of Health allowed himself to be guided by terribly technocratic considerations. |
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Many believe that policy has become too technocratic and remote, and is too much under the influence of vested interests. |
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Economic development, as many experts have recognized in the course of the last fifty years, has often failed because of its top-down, centralized and technocratic tendencies. |
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The worst is to be a slow, directionless technocratic haven. |
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There is a justification for this pushiness: the claim by the top brass that they alone can provide technocratic rule. Comparing General Musharraf with previous governments, economists give him highish marks. |
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The answer was that youth was being led by its more radical elements into a revolt against the seeming conformity and heartlessness of modern technocratic society. |
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We must ensure that excessive collaboration and a surfeit of technocratic barriers do not put the projects at risk and do not result, as in France, in the funds being only partially used. |
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This remoteness, which is often the result of political cronyism, an increasingly technocratic State, and a deficit of democracy, has been aggravated by structural adjustment policies and their consequences. |
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It is indeed impossible to build the future of world agriculture using technocratic divisions into three hermetic silos symbolizing the bulk of government measures involved in agricultural exchanges. |
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The superficial and technocratic analysis of the crisis that is overturning social, political and economic regulations does not take into account the population's demands. |
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If we want to move from a technocratic Europe towards a political Europe, we must stop having a Europe concocted in Embassy drawing rooms and so pass from a diplomatic Europe to a democratic Europe. |
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But birth control must not be based on coercion or technocratic authoritarianism, nor should it lead to the imposition of foreign models or to dogmatic interference. |
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September 11 was a wakeup call that we must join in the debate of these issues and not confine ourselves solely to the role of technocratic aid managers. |
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I fundamentally believe that when all of this coalesces into a real political force it's not going to start like this – round a table, with a guest list, and a technocratic idea. |
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They are democratic, political, economic and social crises precisely due to the liberalist, monetarist and technocratic policies that you advocate, passing off old ideas as new. |
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This may be a product of declining trust in state institutions and a declining interest in civic engagement, which is seen as technocratic and tokenistic. |
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Knowledge and the technocratic system that is its tentacular offshoot henceforth manifests itself as a determination to possess uncontrollable power. |
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The speaker set technocratic oligarchies currently focussed around corporations and state structures that dominate and dictate their standards to the rest of the world, against joint construction approaches. |
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When, last summer, she was appointed to RAI by Mario Monti, the technocratic former prime minister who succeeded Berlusconi, she set about trying to make the broadcaster more respectful to women. |
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Instead of a battle of ideas, the EU has been marred by a vicious circle between anti-EU populism and technocratic agreements between member states that are afraid of their citizens. |
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The name 'cooperation measures' is too technocratic, whereas 'creative actions' emphasises the fact priority will be given to creativity in the selection of projects. |
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Aid has become increasingly technocratic, with an overwhelming reliance on donor systems of aid management and accountability, implemented by a host of consultants and advisors. |
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As president, he would offer four years of technocratic, corporate power. |
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Such leaders have been referred to as authoritarian technocratic rulers, or techno-politicians, due to their emphasis upon executive control over national economic growth. |
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Families are one of the few groupings in society that embody values alternative to the technocratic and profit-centred motives that are endemic in contemporary society. |
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The inability of all these reforms to resolve the public service crisis undoubtedly resides in their primarily-in some cases exclusively-technical or technocratic approach. |
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The death of Mr. Khomeini in 1989 marked the rise of a more technocratic version of Shiism with the presidency of Mr. Rafsanjani and the prominence of lay intellectuals such as Abdolkarim Soroush. |
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The first advocates of socialism favoured social levelling in order to create a meritocratic or technocratic society based on individual talent. |
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The government of the conservative Prime Minister was replaced by the technocratic cabinet of Mario Monti. |
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Analytic philosophy can be pedantic and boring, even technocratic in its hair-splitting attention to logical minutiae. |
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He is the antithesis of a technocratic, machine politician of the kind many people now have an aversion to. |
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For all of the technocratic blatherskite it generates, business theory gives little attention to the basic human interactions that make business a profoundly human enterprise. |
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When applying the concept of technocratic automaticity to EU enlargement, it could be used to hypothesize that EU enlargement is a never-ending process. |
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As the Space Race started and the Cold War intensified, it ushered in a sweepingly technocratic vision of society that still marks American education. |
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He runs out of gas, and back on the ground meets up with a girl who is motoring through the deadland to meet her boss in Phoenix for some obscure technocratic purpose. |
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