Democratising smart cities? Penta-helix multistakeholder social innovation framework by Calzada, I

“…However, these implementations not only reduce the interdependencies among stakeholders to technocratic Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) models, but also fail to question the identities of strategic stakeholders and how they prioritise their business/social models. …”

The view from nowhere? How think tanks work to shape health policy by Shaw, SE, Russell, J, Parsons, W, Greenhalgh, T

“…Our analysis demonstrates how a sample of healthcare think tanks publicly positioned themselves as ‘independent’ organizations. They drew on technocratic health planning discourse to emphasize a range of knowledge-related activities, artifacts and instrumental language that, informants suggested, allowed them to feed emerging evidence into policy and improve health services. …”

The 'new financial development paradigm' : the role of the state vis-a-vis the financial market in east Asia. by Lehmann, Jeanine Andrea.

“…It refers to a state-led development strategy that is based on the political rationale of prioritizing economic growth. Hence, a technocratic elite 'governed' the market while promoting close ties with corporations and businesses. …”
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An Overview of Challenges in Producing and Consuming Transgenic Products by Leila Najafian, Ali Zamanmirabadi, Fatemeh Khaleghi

“…Most of these disputes are caused by distrust of regulatory authorities, scientists, and technocratic decisions. Among all these concerns, health issues, allergenicity and antibiotic resistance are more important. …”
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Communicative strategies for building public confidence in data governance: Analyzing Singapore's COVID-19 contact-tracing initiatives by Gordon Kuo Siong Tan, Sun Sun Lim

“…We argue that these strategies reflect a top-down approach that prioritizes transactional dissemination of information, in line with Singapore's technocratic stance toward governance. We further assert that such communicative tactics represent missed opportunities to foster public confidence in social data governance through greater trust building. …”
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Public Interests and the Legitimation of Global Governance Actors by Janne Mende

“…It sheds light on how individual interests form public interests (without reducing the former to the latter or vice versa), how apparently neutral, technocratic, or expert-driven ideas of public interests are a matter of (global) politics, and how all the elements of public interests are imbued with power inequalities. …”
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Welfare regimes and social workers' conceptions of social problems and professional roles by Lennart Nygren, Alastair Christie, Carolina Muñoz Guzmán, Rasa Naujaniené

“…Chile, exemplifying a familialized family policy regime, reflects a poverty-compensatory social worker role that also supports familial reproduction; Ireland, a partly de-familialized regime, reflects a supportive and risk-reactive role; Lithuania, a re-familialized regime reflects a patriarchal risk-reducing role and Sweden, a de-familialized policy regime, reflects a rights-oriented and technocratic role. Welfare regimes shape different social work practice contexts. …”
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Le complexe nucléaire de Sellafield au cœur des controverses : le fait technologique entre experts et profanes by Lucie de Carvalho

“…Then focussing on technological facts, the present study shall assess how the transformations triggered by those controversies have embodied a shift from a technocratic model, related to an information deficit among the laypeople, to a more nuanced model in which laypeople to a certain extent succeeded in entering the scientific sphere. …”
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Integrative resilience in action: Stories from the frontlines of climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic by Chiara Camponeschi

“…Institutional interventions continue to lag behind, remaining predominantly focused on technocratic framings of vulnerability and resilience that do not lead to a more robust engagement with the reality of the changes that are underway. …”
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Acting in solidarity with the poor? Some conceptual and practical challenges by Catherine Lu

“…This approach politicizes poverty and provides a powerful refutation of some previous approaches that primarily formulated responses to global poverty to consist in mere charity to lighten the poor’s deprivations, or top-down solutions imposed by technocrats and other development experts. Deveaux then extends the concept of solidarity to characterize the political responsibility of the nonpoor, which consists of acting in political solidarity with poor-led organizations and movements. …”
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Why Is Civil Conflict Path Dependent? A Cultural Explanation by Atin Basuchoudhary

“…If culture is indeed a possible cause for conflict, the best intentions of technocratic peacemakers trying to build frameworks for resource sharing and/or institutional building may fail, simply because such structures are not suited to local conditions. …”
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The Link between ICT4D and Modernization Theory by Marlene Kunst

“…Modernization theory was chosen as a reference point, as even though it has frequently been marked as outdated, some argue that ICT4D has brought about its revival: Led by a technocratic mindset, actors in the field have indeed assumed ICTs to be context-free tools, which is one of the reasons why ICT4D has so far not been an unmitigated success. …”
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Kota Cerdas Untuk Siapa? Studi Kasus Kanal Partisipasi Warga Medan, Jakarta, dan Surabaya by Dian Zuchraeni Ekasari Hasanuddin

“…This concern is reflected in the main critics (Hollands, 2008; Krivy, 2016; Cardullo & Kitchin, 2018;) of the technocratic, unequal, and less citizen-centric characters of smart city. …”
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Consistency and Reconciliation Model In Regional Development Planning by Dina Suryawati, Selfi Budi Helpiastuti

“…On the other hand, the process of development planning in the </em><em>region </em><em>involves technocratic system</em><em>,</em><em> that is</em><em>, </em><em>both top-down and bottom-up</em><em> </em><em>system of participat</em><em>ion</em><em>. …”
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Technology-driven proctoring: Validity, social justice and ethics in higher education by Elizabeth Archer

“…The student seems to be a secondary consideration compared to the technocratic digital proctoring arena. However, the introduction of online assessment, specifically with digital proctoring, impacts the assessment’s validity by introducing intervening variables into the process. …”
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Axiological approach as a methodological basis of pedagogy and educational practice improvement by Nadiya Ashytok

“…Decisive among them are the global trend in the change of the basic paradigm of education, its shift from a technocratic to humanitarian one, philosophical rethinking of value and ideological principles of educational practices, as well as of value and ideological content of the educational process; world trends of globalization with inherent intensive migration. …”
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Increasing production efficiency of irrigation systems through stakeholder participation by Anand N. Asthana

“…There is widespread dissatisfaction with technocratic top-down programmes imposed with little community support. …”
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Interdisciplinarity in natural science and humanities as the basis for the development of education by Safontseva Natalia

“…According to the author, technocratism ensures the transition from ideas about the desired image of a graduate of an educational institution to a truly developed professionally competent person with fundamental education. …”
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Encyclical Laudato si’ on the Question of Progress by Witold Kania

“…Then, he provides a critical analysis of the technocratic paradigm embodying the false face of progress. …”
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A Research Agenda for Food System Transformation Through Autonomous Community-based Food Projects by Branden Born

“…The focus of much of the research that examines the food system coming from the planning and policy fields is empirical and reductionist, following a rational technocratic planning epistemology. One critical failing in this approach is a general reliance on the state and its close ties to capital through a global neoliberal economic philosophy that is entirely enmeshed with the food system. …”
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