Technocracy
Model of government in which decisions are made by experts and technical, scientific criteria, entrusting engineers, economists, and scientists with the rational and efficient management of the state and the economy.
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Model of government in which decisions are made by experts and technical, scientific criteria, entrusting engineers, economists, and scientists with the rational and efficient management of the state and the economy.
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I want a society run by experts, with technical decisions replacing political bargaining and a planned economy guided by scientific criteria.
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Our Technocracy model centers on society run by experts, with technical decisions replacing political bargaining and a planned economy guided by scientific criteria. That core does not specify the constitutional allocation of power between territorial units and a center. Administrative centralization, social equality and opposition to the state are different claims from a federal constitution.

Our Technocracy definition includes “society run by experts”. Authority is assigned to a qualified, hereditary, corporate or religious leadership rather than equal popular decision-making; mixed constitutional qualifications are retained.


Our Technocracy model centers on society run by experts, with technical decisions replacing political bargaining and a planned economy guided by scientific criteria. That core does not specify the permissible use of public coercion versus protected personal autonomy. The form of government does not alone establish the extent of surveillance, repression or civil liberty.


Our Technocracy model centers on society run by experts, with technical decisions replacing political bargaining and a planned economy guided by scientific criteria. That core does not specify minority membership, migration and the coexistence of cultural identities. Shared economic interests or a universal philosophical ethic do not alone specify immigration or cultural-integration policy.


Our Technocracy model centers on society run by experts, with technical decisions replacing political bargaining and a planned economy guided by scientific criteria. That core does not specify the political role of organized armed force and acceptance of war. Domestic coercion, economic state intervention and national pride do not by themselves establish militarism or pacifism.


Our Technocracy model centers on society run by experts, with technical decisions replacing political bargaining and a planned economy guided by scientific criteria. That core does not specify coercive foreign projection into other peoples or states. This axis concerns foreign intervention, not nationalism, domestic regulation, cultural confidence or military preparedness alone.


Our Technocracy model centers on society run by experts, with technical decisions replacing political bargaining and a planned economy guided by scientific criteria. That core does not specify ownership of productive assets, land and enterprises. Welfare spending, moral solidarity and expert administration do not by themselves abolish or privatize productive ownership.


Our Technocracy definition includes “technical decisions replacing political bargaining and a planned economy guided by scientific criteria”. Explicit planning directs production and allocation, independently of whether assets are formally public or private.

Our Technocracy model centers on society run by experts, with technical decisions replacing political bargaining and a planned economy guided by scientific criteria. That core does not specify cross-border trade, capital flows and economic integration. Domestic market freedom and international cultural solidarity are different claims from a free-trade policy.

Our Technocracy definition includes “model of government in which decisions are made by experts and technical, scientific criteria”. Reason, rights or criticism of religion offers context for public justification, but does not alone settle the institutional relation between religion and governance.

Our Technocracy model centers on society run by experts, with technical decisions replacing political bargaining and a planned economy guided by scientific criteria. That core does not specify public attitudes toward inherited customs, family, gender and social change. Economic redistribution, technological novelty and a religious affiliation do not uniquely determine every moral position.

Our Technocracy definition includes “entrusting engineers, economists”. Technology, industrial transformation or scientific organization is part of the stated project, while its ethical and ecological limits remain separate questions.

Leans further toward progressive than 72% of the 250 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where it stands furthest from the rest.


On Diplomacy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.

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