The Integrated State: Architecture, Planning, and Politics in Mexico, 1938-1958 by López, Albert José-Antonio

“…I argue that architects became central figures in mid-century Mexican political society and the state's planning bureaucracy as Mexico's mode of governmentality shifted from an ideologically flexible post-conflict reconstructionist model to various modalities of governance ranging from socialist and nationalist interpretations of pseudo state-corporatism, increasing executive branch empowerment with varied levels of presidentialism, and eventually the embrace of a developmentalist, technocratic and bureaucratic authoritarianism. An important faction of Mexican Architects argued their indispensability to political society and appealed to popular support via print journalism, but also public speeches, and use of other mass forms of media, in a broad and long-term collective mobility project. …”
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Navigating Climate and Urban Change: Development Patterns, Conflicts, and Equity in a Sub-Arctic and Post-Socialist City by Durova, Aleksandra O.

“…The processes arise from governance dynamics, such as top-down technocratic planning aligned with market interests, inadequate consideration of risk in spatial development, and a lack of housing market regulation. …”
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Shaping "The Second Half Century" : the Architectural Review, 1947-1971 by Erten, Erdem, 1972-

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Information friction : information technology and military performance by Lindsay, Jon Randall

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Project Apollo, Cold War diplomacy and the American framing of global interdependence by Muir-Harmony, Teasel

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Who reforms? The political economy of digital infrastructure by Mann, R

“…</p> <p>I offer and test a theory of variation in reform outcomes, arguing that the digitisation of entitlements is not simply a technocratic, politically-neutral solution to logistical issues of distribution that can be easily explained by levels of national economic development or technological savviness. …”

Varieties of regulation: how states pursue and set international financial standards by Prabhakar, R

“…</p> <p>My empirical findings remove the veneer of technocratic legitimacy associated with international standard-setting to reveal intense distributional battles. …”

Institusi pendidikan tinggi Islam swasta (IPTIS) dan peranannya dalam penyediaan tenaga kerja bersepadu : suatu kajian kes di Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor by Mydin Kutty, Faridah

“…The need to produce equal Islamic technocrats and professionals, including changing the societies paradigm in relation to the efficiency of Islamic educational Institutions and the graduate produce. …”
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O historii absolutnej klęski – krytyka religii w eseistycznej twórczości Josefa Šafaříka by Paula van Wissem

“…The sharpness of this criticism is directed against technocratic civilization, although it is not only a criticism of widely understood modernity. …”
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Utopía y distopía del Estado mínimo en la Patagonia: sueños de secesión y pesadillas apocalípticas / Utopia and dystopia of the minimal state in Patagonia: dreams of secession and... by Fernando Lizárraga

“…On the other hand, the idea that the development of the gas and oil industries, connected to an unregulated capitalist world market, would end up devastating and breaking apart this territory, in a kind of apocalyptic nightmare (the dystopic way out), marked by the depletion of natural resources and the extinction of regional identities, as it is presented in the technocratic anticipation written by Ramón Martínez Guarino.…”
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Peter Berger and his sociocultural-phenomenological research by E. A. Timoshchuk

“…Despite the first difference between sociology and phenomenology, the emphasis on design, biography, historical context, subjectivity and experience only complement quantitative research with the necessary quality of humanism. Today, when technocratic line is becoming a leading trend, when people talk about neuro-turnaround in science and social practices, phenomenology must be given credit for its courage in sociocultural subjectivity and the actualization of the philosophy of consciousness. …”
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Efectos del modelo de gestión local en la eficiencia y legitimidad política: el municipio Chacao, Venezuela by Juan Carlos RODRÍGUEZ V., María Pilar GARCÍA-GUADILLA, Ernesto ROA CARRERO

“…We found that the most efficient model of achieving decisions at the local level is not the technocratic-rational-bureaucratic one but a mixed model which combines technobureaucratic with political features. …”
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Who must adapt to whom? Contested discourses on human–wolf coexistence and their impact on policy in Spain by Hanna L. Pettersson, George Holmes, Claire H. Quinn, Steven M. Sait, Juan Carlos Blanco

“…Through our policy analysis, we illuminate a dominance of protectionism within national politics, which justified a centralised technocratic pathway while downplaying place‐based approaches. …”
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Politics–evidence conflict in national health policy making in Africa: a scoping review by Edward W. Ansah, Samuel Maneen, Anastasia Ephraim, Janet E. Y. Ocloo, Mabel N. Barnes, Nkosi N. Botha

“…Abstract Background Generally, public health policy-making is hardly a linear process and is characterized by interactions among politicians, institutions, researchers, technocrats and practitioners from diverse fields, as well as brokers, interest groups, financiers and a gamut of other actors. …”
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System-level determinants of immunization coverage disparities among health districts in Burkina Faso: a multiple case study by Contreras Gisèle, Ouédraogo Boubacar, Kabore Moussa, Taminy Elie, Feletto Marta, Bicaba Abel, Haddad Slim, Larocque Renée, Fournier Pierre

“…</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The discourse on factors that determine the performance or breakdown of local health care systems in lower and middle income countries remains largely concentrated on technocratic and financial considerations, targeting institutional reforms, availability of resources, or accessibility of health services. …”

Milan Šimečka: Listy z väzenia, Dopisy z vězení) .(Writing As a Way Towards the Reality (Milan Šimečka: Listy z väzenia, Dopisy z vězení – Letters from the Prison) by Pavel Matejovič

“…He points out an ecologic measure of Šimečka´s opinions, rooted in the reforming Marxism of the 60th, as well as in the critic of technocratism in the works of representatives of the Frankfurt School.…”
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Nature for resilience reconfigured: global-to-local translation of frames in Africa by Katharina Rochell, Harriet Bulkeley, Hens Runhaar

“…Critical scholarship has observed that urban adaptation and resilience interventions in Africa are often characterised as technocratic and top-down approaches, hence it is vital to understand whether these are replicated through proliferating nature-based solutions (NBSs). …”
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Essays on the attitudes, behavior, and decision-making of income-constrained electricity consumers : implications for integrative grid and off-grid business model planning by Rahnama, Roxanne

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The pobladores and local democracy in Chile : the case of El Bosque and Peñalolén by Rivera-Ottenberger, Anny Ximena, 1955-

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The people in the city of the nation : re-viewing Islamabad's fifth function by Mohr, Robert Allen

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