Sentences with word «technocratic»

By all means use the knowledge of those who have been there before, but to reappoint them on that basis just gives the impression of technocratic government by the same small group.

Kurtz posits addiction as a symptom of confusion due to separation of the physical, mental, and spiritual elements of the human personality in technocratic societies.

Global Education Magazine aims to disseminate creative, innovative and transversal educational experiences and ideas from the formal ambit, non formal and informal, to break with the existing positivist and technocratic paradigms of the past that reduce our students in passive citizens and a-critical consumers, because we have as educational horizon the freedom and the emancipation of human -LSB-...]

The responsibility for the crisis is identified in turn with Berlusconi and his failure to deliver on the liberal revolution he repeatedly promised; with the Democratic Party which many saw as hopeless during the long years in opposition; and finally, with Mario Monti, whose technocratic government some perceive as the product of the economic establishment which created the crisis and is now passing the costs on to the middle class.

These kinds of questions are often addressed as technocratic challenges of leadership, legal compliance, or accountability.

Rather than being distracted by the shiny technocratic solutions of the GMO industry, FAO should continue its important work on promoting farmers» access to native and locally adapted seeds and breeds, markets and value chains, and on promoting agroecology as the best way to feed the world and face the challenges of climate change.

Inspired by our increasingly technocratic society designed by bureaucrats with malevolent accounting software, van Lieshout has proffered this sardonic ultimate solution for neoliberal states and corporations looking to colonize our eco-future.»

Political and economic integration is here seen as a project guided by technocratic elites which in last analysis benefits the centers of transnational power weakening and depleting the local contexts.

Both of these capacious minds, I suspect, would have felt rather out of place in today's technocratic world of wonks and white papers, with its distinction between «politics» and «policy» — but more on that later.

In our globalized and technocratic age, we're often told, «we need expert management of monetary, trade, and tax policy, not collective deliberation about how, as a society, we are to order our common life.»

Enriched, widely available professional development would substitute a human capital model of school reform for the current test - based technocratic one.

This is not justified, however, on moral grounds, where inequality is a wrong that must be rectified through social justice, but on technocratic and scientific considerations.

In a world where it seems that the liberal arts are giving ground to a more technocratic approach to learning, such innovation would seem to be timely.

There are many strains of socialism (from technocratic social - democracy, to Fabianism and Stalinism) that have not placed great emphasis on the idea that ordinary citizens should have extensive participation in political decision - making.

In contrast to the «one - dimensional paradigm» of technocratic domination that concerns Pope Francis, the ecomodernists propose what might be described as a two - dimensional paradigm.

David Brooks says the plurality of the little platoons is being replaced by the uniformity of technocratic administration, a topic dear to our Ivan the K.

But sometimes in our quest to improve, we create something else entirely — a maze of technocratic processes and procedures that replaces common sense and removes the human element from our work as teachers.

In the early 1970s many campus ministers believed that the Danforth study reflected too much romance concerning large - scale technocratic organizations.

Others avoid humanistic study altogether, working hard to acquire scientific and technocratic expertise.

Together, these works challenge a universal, homogeneous, and technocratic future determined by economic growth and technological advancement.

It's admirable to put a thumb on the scale towards equalizing opportunity, but the aftermath of the Great Society should have taught us that nothing good is accomplished when technocratic reforms are allowed to displace responsible familial norms.

But the second half reminds me that this faith in technocratic tinkering must be leavened by skepticism of state action and deference to the wisdom of preceding crowds.

I think to a certain extent even President Obama framed his campaign as an attempt to end politics by means of rational and competent technocratic planning, a sign that this narrative is one that appeals to a considerable segment of the voting public.

So they opted for a stealth adoption, powerfully abetted by the federal government, with whispered reassurances that their ambitious effort really was just technocratic tinkering and wasn't that significant after all.

The danger with the sweeping ambition of technocratic reformers is something that conservatives have long recognized.

Whatever the motive, the referendum is an insult to democracy because Tsipras sprung it on an unsuspecting population, asking Greeks to accept or reject technocratic proposals that many will struggle to understand.

The myth of the managerial expert is very damaging, because it shifts the education conversation away from important social issues like justice and equality to technocratic concerns like «accountability» and «efficiency.»

This should be entirely new in relation to the United Nations» system of inter-state relations and the economic and technocratic logic of the Bretton Woods system (WB, IMF, GATT - WTO).

This seems an oddly technocratic point but reminds me of the view of Douglas Alexander and Jim Murphy that «Labour needs a draw on the deficit and a win on growth».

You know, that it would be wonderful from a, sort of, technocratic view of reality if, you know, you could imagine that well, all the scientists would figure out the best way to do something, and then, you know, wave off their hands and somehow everything would drop into place.

Despite devolution, removing lots of hereditary peers, creating a supreme court and the freedom of information act, for some reason, the leadership of the party managed to portray themselves as if they had real apathy for democratic reform, and that they were only interested in technocratic experts getting involved in policy, not citizens.

But sometimes we are tempted into technocratic language that loses sight of the ultimate end user of our schools: the students.

Both men in their 70s are not noted for their particular brilliance, or technocratic skills.

The «high - end viral potential» of the unicorn - trophies strategy contrasts with the cap - and - trade era during Obama's first term, when «the issue was discussed almost exclusively in technocratic terms,» Nisbet added.

It also seemed to be a natural by - product — actually the quintessence — of the Left's technocratic bent: if we set clear, measurable aspirations, develop aligned policies, organize ourselves to achieve our goals, continuously assess performance, and make necessary course corrections, then we will succeed.

However, technocratic attempts to guarantee quality through imposing uniform standards can interrupt this evolutionary process.

«And so Amissah - Arthur performed a very technocratic role; for him becoming the vice president, it would take some time for him to shed the skin of technocracy to real politics and he was doing it.

The rising tide of «people's powers from below» to confront the powers and principalities in these various arenas, has brought new mechanisms of suppression by use of technocratic means.

The narrow focus, political ineptitude, and technocratic fixes come not from the environmental advocacy groups, he says, but from the foundations that fund them.