Srovnání krize parlamentarismu v Německu a Rakousku, 1930–1934 by Martin Jeřábek

“…We argue that the German system of emergency decrees of the President (Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution) systematically undermined the German parliament in favour of state bureaucracy and a technocratic government. In Austria, since March 4, 1933 Dollfuss coalition of the right wing of Political Catholicism with the Heimwehr implemented a degree law with the War Economy Empowering Act (KWEG) as a tool to govern without parliament. …”
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The Open Data Movement: Young Activists between Data Disclosure and Digital Reputation by Davide Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Reale

“…The ODS case appears interesting for its evolu-tion, its strategy and organizational structure: an elitist and technocratic movement that aspires to a broad constituency. …”
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Euro as the currency of the EU’s green transition by Agnieszka Smoleńska

“…At the same time, while a ‘green currency’ creates spaces for engagement and new forms of organising a polity, it still remains largely removed from ordinary citizens as ‘technocratic’ rather than ‘democratic’ self-government.…”
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THE CITIZENSHIP IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND AN EVALUATION ABOUT ITS EFFECTS by Yavuz Yıldırım

“…Today, the politics and government are based on the expertise and technocratic initiatives of fewer active citizens.…”
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Overview and Insights from ‘Systems Education for a Sustainable Planet’ by Robert Y. Cavana, Vicky E. Forgie

“…Barriers include current institutional structures and the need for students to be both big picture thinkers and detail-oriented technocrats; (3) Teaching systems approaches outside of specialised programs for students (both young and mature) help to expose systems thinking to a wider demographic; (4) The strong links that exist between systems approaches and sustainability goals are increasingly being recognised. …”
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Konstitusi Hijau Perancis: Komentar atas asas Kehati-hatian dalam Piagam Lingkungan Perancis 2004 by Andri G. Wibisana

“…The papers shows that interpreting the precautionary principle as  risk assessment is not consistent with the intention of developing the precautionary principle, because risk assessment as currently conducted  is plagued with a technocratic approach. The practices of risk assessment have oversimplified the situation of incertitude as merely risk, and consequently, has the potential to ignore public opinion and participation in the decision making process. …”
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Technopopulism: The Emergence of a Discursive Formation by Marco Deseriis

“…These two seemingly contradictory aspects precipitate in two variants of technopopulism: a leaderless-technocratic variant, which is derived from the open source mode of governance and from early experiments of the Global Justice Movement in networked self-government; and a leaderist-populist variant, which is more strictly focused on the electoral competition as an intrinsically reductive and thus hegemonic practice. …”
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Den Flüssen mehr Raum geben – Umsetzungsrestriktionen in Recht und Praxis by Thomas Hartmann

“…In fact, however, instruments are needed which would enable integrative planning processes in order to cope with conflicts in spatial flood protection, and in order to support a rethinking in water management—from a technocratic and controlling towards an integrating mode of governance. …”
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Dry Country, Wet City: A World-Ecological Reading of Drought in Thea Astley’s <i>Drylands</i> by Ashley Cahillane

“…This happens on the level of both content and form: while its theme of drought-induced migration is critical of the past, present, and future social and ecological effects of the reckless extraction of freshwater, its nonlinear plot and hybrid form as a montage of short stories work to undermine the dominant anthropocentric colonial narratives that underline technocratic water cultivation.…”
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Varieties of Marketization<subtitle>Introducing a new Framework for the Study of Market Reforms in Nordic Welfare States</subtitle> by Ola Innset, Elin Åström Rudberg

“…Particularly, we find that the justification for the reforms differed, with the Swedish reform being justified in ideological terms and the Norwegian in technocratic terms. Contrary to some literature, we hold that marketization has fundamentally altered Nordic welfare states and the relationship between capital and society in the Nordics, and we suggest that our framework could be used for future comparative studies of market reforms.…”
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About Problems and Prospects of Humanities and Humanitarian Education in Russia by O. V. Vorobieva

“…It is noted that in this situation it is very important to move away from a predominantly technocratic and economic understanding of the priorities and results of the scientific and technological development of Russia for a historical perspective, to avoid reducing information about the progress of a person, society, and the state to technological and economic criteria; to recognize a special status of Humanities, social sciences, and education as the most important resource confronting the technologically accelerated destruction of nature and society, to view them as a factor of cognition, dialogue and management.…”
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FIFTH PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN BULGARIA by Pavel E. Kandel

“…The leaders of the warring majority camps (GERB-SDS vs «We Continue the changes» – «Democratic Bulgaria») already fear of being branded as the culprits of a new failure leading to appointment of one more temporary technocratic government by the president and the next snap elections. …”
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Marine citizenship: The right to participate in the transformation of the human-ocean relationship for sustainability. by Pamela M Buchan, Louisa S Evans, Margherita Pieraccini, Stewart Barr

“…The field is underpinned by knowledge-deficit and technocratic approaches to behaviour change such as awareness raising, ocean literacy, and environmental attitudes research. …”
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Planning and Critical Entrepreneurship by Sabine Knierbein

“…It simultaneously promoted the notion that both businesses and publics take a sceptical stance towards technocratic planning and government interventions. This scepticism, apparently, “has brought the discipline into crisis, from which it has not yet fully recovered” (ibid.). …”
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The teaching of offensive skills against different defensive scenarios in handball: analysis of coaches’ perspectives in different categories by VINICIUS S. MUSA, RAFAEL P. MENEZES

“…In addition, it was also found that teaching approaches are based on a technocratic way with further attempts to transfer the learned skills to the game context for all age groups. …”
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“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”: environmental-climate conspiracy theories and populism at the beginning of the Bolsonaro... by Klaus Ramalho von Behr

“…From this qualitative analysis, we evidenced a conspiratorial structure as follows: global, intellectual, technocratic, and left-wing elites seek to instrumentalize the environmental-climate agenda – in particular by ideological indoctrination and alarmism – to justify widespread control over the nations sovereignties and the individuals freedoms. …”
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Always a matter of style? The question of proper architectural vocabulary in castle renovations from the 1890s to the 2020s in Bohemia and Moravia by Martin Horáček

“…The study examines selected Czech examples that feature a substantial newly-added layer (Gothic in Bouzov, the 1890s–1900s; Art Nouveau and Art Deco in Nové Město nad Metují, the 1910s–1920s; Classical in Prague Castle, the 1920s–1950s; Technocratic in Lipnice, the 1970s–1980s; Romantic in Častolovice, the 1990s; Minimalist in Helfštýn, the 2010s). …”
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Pragmatic resistance as counter-conduct : civil society advocacy in Singapore by Neo, Isaac Yi Chong

“…This dissertation analyses the methods that civil society actors use to engage the state and posits that civil society actors engage in pragmatic resistance against the state using largely non-confrontational and technocratic methods while strategically shifting between cooperating with and contesting the state. …”
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Ecuador's experiment in living well: sumak kawsay, Spinoza and the inadequacy of ideas by Gerlach, J

“…Acknowledging the precarious composition of sumak kawsay, the paper questions the extent to which the ethos of experimentalism in politics can be sustained, eliding stymied technocratic forms of the political. It turns, therefore, to Baruch Spinoza’s treatise on adequate and inadequate ideas. …”

‘Capacity for what? Capacity for whom?’ A decolonial deconstruction of research capacity development practices in the Global South and a proposal for a value-centred approach by Mormina, ME, Istratii, R

“…Without making transparent these normative and epistemological dimensions, RCD practices will continue to perpetuate approaches that are likely to be narrow, technocratic and unreflexive of colonial legacies, thus failing to achieve the aims of RCD, namely, the equitable and development-oriented production of knowledge in low- and middle-income societies. …”