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EncyclopediaTechnocracy refers to any political–social–economic system that is governed and managed using purportedly objective scientific and technical principles, and in which ultimate power and authority rests with technical and scientific experts.
Cameron Elliott Gordon
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Amsterdam Law Forum, 2009 The European Union tries to be a responsible, technocratic, scientific regulator. As national governments struggle with populist calls for protectionism and state aid it preaches a co-ordinated, economically defensible recovery policy. Yet the paradox is
Gareth Davies
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Anticipatory action and pastoralism in Africa: a synthesis of current challenges, opportunities, and priorities. [PDF]
DisastersAbstract This article synthesises the current situation vis‐à‐vis the aid modality of anticipatory action in pastoralist settings. Broadly comprising pre‐planned, pre‐financed interventions triggered by early warning systems and aimed at reducing the impacts of crises, anticipatory action has been effective at reducing the impact of shocks in multiple ...
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Slow Science and Slow Education in a Digitalized University: an Anthropopractic Approach
Дискурс, 2022 Introduction. The slow movement in universities is a reaction to the economic-centricity and commodification of higher education and science, the standardization and quantifiability of research and educational activities, the expansion of digital ...
Yu. A. Gorbunova, I. O. Boronikhina
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What Can Faith-Based Forms of Violent Conflict Prevention Teach Us About Liberal Peace? [PDF]
, 2020 Faith-based actors are often recognised as contributors to both conflict and peace. However, their work to prevent violent conflict, rather than bring an end to or recover from it, is largely unexplored.
Payne, Laura
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Financial Power and Democratic Legitimacy [PDF]
, 2022 To what extent are questions of sovereign debt a matter for political rather than scientific or moral adjudication? We answer that question by defending three claims. We argue that (i) moral and technocratic takes on sovereign debt tend to be ideological
Prinz, Janosch, Rossi, Enzo
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Le VIH au Chili. Usages politiques de la vérité technique
Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2021 The technical truth is defined here as a scientifically determined truth, validated by an epistemic community prior to ratification by political authorities.
Eduardo Carrasco-Rahal
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International Review of Public Policy, 2020 This essay examines epistemological tensions inherent in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) project. The clash between the totalizing logic of the SDGs and growing populist antipathy for expert governance can be better understood and potentially ...
Kris Hartley
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Technological parables and iconic illustrations: American technocracy and the rhetoric of the technological fix [PDF]
, 2016 This paper traces the role of American technocrats in popularizing the notion later dubbed the “technological fix”. Channeled by their long-term “chief”, Howard Scott, their claim was that technology always provides the most effective solution to modern ...
Johnston, Sean F.
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Coming into the Anthropocene [PDF]
, 2014 This essay reviews Professor Jonathan Cannon’s Environment in the Balance. Cannon’s book admirably analyzes the Supreme Court’s uptake of, or refusal of, the key commitments of the environmental-law revolution of the early 1970s.
Chey, Chan Oeurn +6 more
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