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Snippet from Wikipedia: Technocracy

Technocracy is an expert-based type of governance. In its strongest sense, it is a form of government in which decisions across all sectors and policy domains follow evidence-based, efficiency-oriented procedures grounded in scientific methods and instrumental rationality. In a weaker sense, the term denotes hybrid models that delegate specific functions to experts or implement expertise-driven decision procedures in areas such as central banking, public health, or environmental regulation.

Technocracy is often regarded as a challenge to democracy since it grounds political legitimacy in elite expertise, while democracy justifies itself as the rule of the people. One approach to resolving their tensions suggests that democratically elected officials choose political goals, while technocrats choose the most efficient ways to realize those goals, serving as advisors and implementers. Technocracy is closely related to meritocracy, expertocracy, epistocracy, managerialism, and algocracy. It contrasts with populism, which frames politics as a struggle between morally pure people and a self-serving elite.

Proponents of technocracy argue that scientific expertise and evidence-guided policy produce better outcomes. They hold that its value-neutral approach is best suited to promote the long-term welfare of society as a whole. Opponents contend that technocracy is anti-democratic by excluding large segments of the population from politics, that the claim to neutrality masks value-laden choices, and that science alone is insufficient for political decisions.

Early contributions to the idea of technocracy appear in the utopian visions of Plato, Francis Bacon, and Henri de Saint-Simon. The notion of science- and rationality-based governance gained prominence during the Enlightenment and became increasingly influential as industrial and post-industrial transformations made societies more complex. Notable examples of technocratic influence are found in the North American technocracy movement of the 1930s, Soviet and Chinese centralized planning, developmental efforts in Latin America and Singapore, and the institutional architecture of the European Union.

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