Towards a transdisciplinary approach to rural electrification planning for universal access in India by Borofsky, Yael

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Hak pemeliharaan dan penangkapan ikan eksistensi dan prospek pengaturannya di Indonesia by SAAD, Sudirman

“…The fact that the politics of fishery law tiwards the end of the 1990s was characterized by common property was due to the adoption of a technocratic model in the law-making process and the influence of other countries that wanted to maintain the common property concept. …”

Varieties of organised capitalism: technocracy, corporatism and industrial policy in modern France and Italy (1937-58) by Vagge, C

“…It argues that the Italian Fascist regime, Vichy’s French State, the Italian Social Republic (RSI), the French and Italian Provisional Governments, the Fourth Republic and the Italian Republic from 1946 were all developmental states, which utilised organised capitalism to modernise key industries such as iron and steel. Technocratic institutions such as Italy’s Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI) and France’s General Planning Commissariat (CGP) became in this way pivotal industrial policy instruments.…”

Water, power and IWRM (Integrated water resources management): a comparative study of village water governance in arid and semi-arid Northwest China by Yu, H

“…This thesis enables a new perspective on the global water management debate within a context where research has stresses the natural and technocratic approaches and creates new opportunities for more effective and appropriate governance of common pool resources. …”

The EU’s european semester: soft power and knowledge in the governing of education by Eeva, K

“…</p> <p>The key findings of the research are that policy actors form new ‘governing elites’ that are increasingly technocratic and knowledge-based, and who operate through networks. …”

Editorial Vol-1-Issue-2-2005 by Yngve Nordkvelle

“…Her depiction of technology is a critical account of how technocratic approaches are intruding into everyday technological environments. …”
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Pola Legitimasi “Criminal-Policy” Pada Pembentukan Peraturan Daerah by Sri Wahyu Kridasakti, Purwaningdyah Purwaningdyah, Eko Nuriyatman

“…The acceptance in complexiu of the living-law values ​​with their local wisdom in the formation of regional regulations in the field of public order was apparently nowhere to be found, so that the basis for the legitimacy of criminal-policy norms was built only on technocratic uptake. Abstrak Dengan tidak adanya standar mengenai pembentukan peraturan daerah yang ada di Indonesia terkait dengan tertib umum oleh pemerintah daerah yang bermuatan sanksi pidana, menimbulkan penyimpangan dalam hal asas-asa kepastian hukum bagi masyarakat. …”
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Análisis del gasto militar desde la perspectiva de la economía de la defensa: El caso colombiano 1950-2006 by Fernando Chavarro Miranda, Manfred Grautoff

“…The sector defense has not had technocratic tradition, and the Investigation field is incipient, the present work presents/displays an approach to the study of the cost in defense and security (GDS) between 1950 - 2006, where it will be verified as this one macroeconomic aggregate stayed below the regional average through century XX. …”
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Migration in the Middle East: Old economics or new politics? by Choucri, Nazli

“…The foreign policies of nations, Arab and non-Arab, are increasingly shaped by manpower connections, and issues that were conventionally thought to be in the realm of "low politics"--to be dealt with by technocrats, bureaucrats, economists, and the like--have been catapulted into the arena of "high politics," pressing themselves upon the attention and shaping the priorities of almost every leader in the region. …”
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Bridging the divide : incorporating local ecological knowledge into U.S. natural resource management by Schulman, Alexis

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Hydroterritorial Configuration and Confrontation: The Daule-Peripa Multipurpose Hydraulic Scheme in Coastal Ecuador by Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas, Rutgerd Boelens, Edgar Isch

“…They bring benefits to some social groups while many others are negatively affected. Technocratic discourses are dominant in the region; they strategically mobilize institutions, infrastructure, money, and knowledge to present particular hydrosocial territorial imaginaries—such as multipurpose dams—as natural, universal, and politically neutral. …”
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Made for export : labor migration, state power, and higher education in a developing Philippine economy by Ruiz, Neil G

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Self-management of chronic pain: a critical interpretive inquiry by Walumbe, JN

“…</p> <p>I conclude by arguing that the presence of contrasting pain ontologies has resulted in practitioners experiencing ontological conflict when trying to deliver modernised, technocratic services for chronic pain, and patients and practitioners experiencing uncertainty and distress when negotiating the health care system. …”

Stedebouwkundig(e) ontwerpen in woorden by MaartenJan Hoekstra

“…Nassuth’s and his team’s use of words and drawings can be characterised as abstract, technocratic and sometimes even hermetic (not focused on communicating). …”
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Environmentalism in Qatar: examining the influence of Islamic ethics on environmental thought and practice by Kolkailah, N

“…This study also demonstrates how state authorities and their corporate allies adopt predominately technocratic and market-based approaches to resolving environmental problems and maintain control over environmental discourses and decisions while actively depoliticizing climate discourses. …”

Trends and Prospects in Educational Modernisation: A Hermeneutic Approach by A. F. Zakirova, Ye. N. Volodina

“…The prevalence of the technological component over the axiological results in the consolidation of a pragmatic, narrowly functional, technocratic vector of education development. To overcome this situation and to break this deadlock, a profound reconsideration of the values underlying mechanisms of reform is required, taking into account multifaceted personal, social, national and universal relations, as well as unity of content, forms and means of education.The aims of the research were identified as follows: to analyse the current trends of modernisation in comprehensive schools and higher educational establishments; to justify humanistic mechanisms for improving the modernisation in the context of language education, which performs personally developing and socialising functions under ideological pluralism and opposition of value systems.Methodology and research methods. …”
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Smart und/oder partizipativ? Eine kritische Betrachtung der SmartCity Cologne by Alexander Follmann, Stephen Leitheiser, Holger Kretschmer

“…However, available empirical studies on the Smart City criticize the dominant top-down implementation, the determining role of private sector actors, and the technocratic character of smart projects – even those which explicitly promise participation and are described as citizen-oriented. …”
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Business social responsibility. Search for assessment methods by M. V. Bikeeva

“…At the same time, a characteristic feature of existing scientific approaches is the emphasis on technocratic and economic positions and the complete absence of approaches based on the relationship between business and stakeholders. …”
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Studying the state through the lens of Bolsa Família: policy preservation under adverse circumstances in Brazil by Bolch, K

“…The analysis in this thesis suggests that this is not only due to the difficult politics involved in taking benefits away from voters, but also in large part due to the continuity of technocratic actors (and their broader epistemic community) over time that acted as “protective constituency” for the program. …”

Drivers and barriers to change in desalinated water governance in the GCC: a comparative approach to water privatisations in Abu Dhabi, Doha and Kuwait City by Lambert, LA

“…The political culture approach shows that these privatisations were facilitated by a gradual shift from pure rentierism towards a post-rentier form of neoliberalism in the political philosophy of liberal water technocrats on the one hand, and towards a regional trend of ‘pious neoliberalism’ (Atia, 2011) among practicing Sunni Muslims. …”