TEACHERS FOR A CHANGE: LA GENERATION OF 70 by Juan González Ruiz

“…Since then, it is possible to distinguish three stages until the late twentieth century, an evolution which can be viewed as the reconquest of the professional and personal dignity of teachers: one of them is called authoritarian, the another controlled by technocratic criteria and the third of access to a greater prominence of teachers through participation in the planning and management of educational fact. …”
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Authoritarian technopopulism in Arab countries and international legitimation by Isaías Barreñada Bajo

“…This paper addresses three features that characterise the authoritarian restoration following what is known as the Arab springs of 2011: a) the recourse to technocratic governments, b) the proliferation of discourses on the depoliticisation of governance and c) the postponement of the renegotiation of the old social contracts. …”
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The New PAS: Re-defining the Future of Islamist Politics by Yang Razali Kassim

“…If the last party elections two years ago started this reformist trend with the rise to prominence of the technocrats and professionals, the 53rd muktamar or general assembly saw the emergence of a new breed of clerics with a reformist image – the “young ulama”.…”
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“All Creatures Moving Forward”: Reconsidering the Ethics of Xenotransplantation in Light of Laudato Si’ by Skya Abbate

“…This timely encyclical acknowledges the dignity of human beings and other animal creatures and deserves formal church articulation before the technocratic paradigm of scientific possibility replaces the integrity of creation. …”
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Media Diversity and the Politics of Criteria by Karppinen Kari

“…It is argued in the article that the growing body of research on media diversity as a measurable concept implies a shift from the normative and political questions to more narrowly defined technocratic and market-driven definitions of media and culture, a move which itself is not without normative and political implications.…”
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Democratic Integration in North America: Focusing on Democratic Institutions by Hugo Rangel Torrijo

“…Contrary to the right-wing, anti-free trade discourse, I argue that, beyond a technocratic perspective, a radical transformation is needed to build a continental integration based on democratic institutions and cooperation beyond supranational organizations. …”
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The Law and Political Economy of Online Visibility by Rachel Griffin

“…DSA provisions on recommendations focus on enhancing user choice, protecting creators’ market access, and encouraging technocratic responses to particular negative externalities, such as promotion of disinformation. …”
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Hacia la constitución de una economía de mercados jerárquicos: Modernización capitalista y tradicionalismo social en los industriales chilenos (1952-1958) by Joaquín Fernández Abara, Margarita Goldflam Leiva

“…This program was accompanied by a traditional and hierarchical understanding of labor relations, and a growing distrust of politicians and to the autonomous technocratic cadres in the state. These elements allowed the industrialists to develop a pragmatic and flexible attitude in the framework of the debate between structuralists and monetarists and to the policies of the Klein-Saks Mission. …”
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Interpolations of class, “race”, and politics: Denmark's Jyllands-Posten and its coverage of Greek national elections during the “Greek crisis” by Mylonas Yiannis, Noutsou Matina

“…Our analysis highlights the existence of three main interrelated themes in JP's constructions of the Greek elections: a moralist, a culturalist, and a technocratic/anti-leftist theme. These themes are theorised through the use of relevant theory on class cultures and politics today.…”
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Heidegger, Moral Values, and Non-Human Animals: Philosophical Intersections by Sreetama Misra

“…This entails moving beyond the limited boundaries of contemporary scientific and technocratic paradigms and illuminating the potential for investigating not only human experiences but also those of animals. …”
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Climate Dialog, Climate Action: Can Democracy Do the Job? by Fred Young Phillips, LaVonne Reimer, Rebecca Turner

“…The essay urges adding bottom-up dialog between environmental and anti-environmental voters, to current and future top-down technocratic “solutions”. To make this combination result in a unified pro-environment electorate, we must understand: religious objections to environmentalism; the capital-vs.…”
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Climate Dialog, Climate Action: Can Democracy Do the Job? by Fred Young Phillips, LaVonne Reimer, Rebecca Turner

“…The essay urges adding bottom-up dialog between environmental and anti-environmental voters, to current and future top-down technocratic “solutions”. To make this combination result in a unified pro-environment electorate, we must understand: religious objections to environmentalism; the capital-vs.…”
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Tensiones y problemas de legitimación en la evaluación de políticas públicas un análisis a la luz del caso español by Ángel Rivero Recuenco

“…The institutionalization of policy evaluation in Spain shows the limits and contradictions involved in implementing this practice in the public policy management cycle. The technocratic expectations that inspired in 2005 the creation of the Spanish State agency for evaluation is in sharp contrast to the political, bureaucratic and technical difficulties that the material implementation of this activity implied. …”
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What Can Covid Teach Us? An Essay by Marcus Bussey

“…The paper concludes that love, intimacy, and presence are very much part of educational and cultural discourses and that though currently eclipsed by a technocratic and neoliberal discourse, they are being called forth as a possible response to the Covid pandemic. …”
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What’s the matter with Benjamin O. Flower? by Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet

“…Populism could then be considered as just one moment in the confrontation between the more radical antimonopoly strand of Progressivism and the managerial liberalism fostered by the more technocratic elements among Progressives.…”
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European's federation and currency: the contribution of Luigi Einaudi by Mario Sarcinelli

“…As to the strategy to achieve this result he started from a functionalist approach, moved to a technocratic one, and ended up embracing the thesis to have "political federation" right away.    …”
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The Fifth Order of Design by Mariana Fonseca Braga

“…This comprehensive view is critical to tgetting to grips with global challenges (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) since the shift towards sustainability needs to address the root causes of systemic and interrelated problems that cannot be overcome by reactive marketing and technocratic approaches. Implications for design value, education, skills, and ways of designing are pointed out. …”
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Leading and Organising Education for Citizenship of the World by Lejf Moos, Elisabet Nihlfors, Jan Merok Paulsen

“…On the one hand, society produces a discourse based on outcomes, with a focus on the marketplace, governance, bureaucracies, account-ability and technocratic homogenisation. On the other hand, society focuses on culture in the arts, language, history, relations and communication, producing a discourse based on democratic Bildung and citizenship of the world.…”
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Looking for Good Work: From Matthew Crawford to Pope Francis via Wittgenstein by Mark Ryan

“…These fantasies have a close relationship to what Pope Francis has called “the technocratic paradigm.” I claim that this alternative form of inquiry about work is best understood as an example of the study of ‘ethics’ and specifically an ethics of character.…”
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Owning the libs: Post-truth in right-wing political discourse by Kris Hartley

“…Policy facts are now contested in ways that disrupt mainstream political narratives and weaken institutional legitimacy. In turn, the technocratic response of doubling-down on facts is faltering as the ‘burn it down’ vacuity of post-truth declares equivalent political legitimacy. …”
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