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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BELÉM (PA): contradições sociais do e no planejamento urbano by Sandra Helena Ribeiro Cruz, Pedro Paulo de Miranda Araújo Soares, Welson de Sousa Cardoso

“…The methodological course was based on critical social theory, which subsidized the analysis of the technocratic and market-oriented planning processes, as well as on the social movements' action in front of the urban interventions in Belém. …”
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La traduction des enjeux sécuritaires et écologiques dans les modes de gestion Suisse des zones alluviales by Mihaela Nedelcu, François Hainard

“…This article highlights the various stakes and constraints which are limiting the passage from a technocratic model of regulation towards a citizen regulation of the public action. …”
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California Consumers’ Beliefs and Trust in Electric Utilities by Christine Horne, Thomas Familia, Emily Huddart Kennedy

“…These results have implications for the energy transition and, more generally, understanding potential challenges experienced by technocratic institutions.…”
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The paradoxes of reason in tasks of university research and teaching by Carolina González Laurino

“…The study considers the historical statements about contradictions of reason, exemplified by the approaches of the critical theory, recovering the emancipatory sense of questioning thought of technocratic models and the rehabilitation of conservative impulses in university education, in a moment marked by the superficiality of the professional education.…”
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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 Basic Principles of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games in Relation to Philosophy by Petr Sádlo

“…The author assumes that MMORPGs originated as a responseto the super-technical and increasingly technocratic western world from which players want to escape in order to find a simpler and more challenging, yet virtual world.…”
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Évolution syndicale de Pétroles du  Venezuela S. A. (PDVSA) by Thomas Posado

“…(PDVSA) in 1976, a model based on a technocratic meritocracy emerged, with increasing autonomy from the state. …”
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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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Anti-state fantasy and the fiction of the 1940s by Mackay, M

“…Lewis's That Hideous Strength (1945), I argue that these conservative novels are best understood as extreme iterations of a more widespread anxiety about the potentially totalitarian elements of a centralising and technocratic democracy at war.…”

Latin American and Caribbean Urban Development by Christien Klaufus, Rivke Jaffe

“…Following different ideological trends in twentieth-century urban studies, we currently see more pragmatic frameworks and a belief in technocratic solutions. Some scholars consider Latin American and Caribbean cities to be the world’s new signposts in urban development, given their role as sites of innovations in politics, architecture and urban design; we see potential here for urban scholars of the region to move beyond technocratic language. …”
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From the 8-Hour Day to the 40-Hour Week: Legitimization Discourses of Labour Legislation between the Wars in France and Belgium by Sabine Rudischhauser

“…Stressing the output dimension of legitimacy and the improved quality of legal norms, these discourses had a technocratic tendency and ultimately argued in favour of a shift of power from the legislative to the administrative branch of government.…”
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A Progressive Policy without Progressive Politics: Lessons from the failure to implement ‘Breaking New Ground’ by Richard Pithouse

“…It is suggested that a technocratic approach privileges elite interests and that there could be better results from an explicitly pro-poor political approach – which would include direct support for poor people’s organisations to challenge elite interests, including those in the state, and to undertake independent innovation on their own.…”
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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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Law, Expertise and Global Political Economy by David Kennedy

“…As politicians, citizens, and experts engage one another on a technocratic terrain of irresolvable argument and uncertain knowledge, a world of astonishing inequality and injustice is born. …”
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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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Family relationships and polar opposition: Being equal while remaining different by Martín Carbajo Núñez

“…He notes, however, that the technocratic paradigm, homogeneous and one-dimensional, cancels out this dynamic, thus opening the way to globalized indifference and the throwaway culture (part 2). …”
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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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L'idéal technocratique des ingénieurs à l'épreuve de la construction de l’Etat : Maghreb, Machrek, Indochine au XXe siècle by Anousheh Karvar

“…I will question the technocratic ideal of these state engineers as a contradictory product of their science acquired in the West and their aspiration towards independence. …”
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Topography and scale in a community-driven maternal and child health program in Eastern Indonesia by Jesse Hession Grayman

“…I analyze these discourses of topography and field in relation to the changing therapeutic landscape of maternal and child health services in the Manggarai highlands of western Flores, then follow Generasi’s scalar scaffolding from the meetings and clinics in villages, to the technocratic policy work in Jakarta, and to the academic spaces of Auckland and Cambridge.…”
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