Example collocations logo

Technocratic in sentence

205 examples of Technocratic in a sentence

It is this feature of populism – the idea that the people want only one thing, and that only true representatives can give it to them – that explains a symmetry (often evoked, but seldom spelled out) between populism and technocratic government.
Lastly, the purely technocratic approach is a recipe for pushing older voters into the arms of populists.
After appealing to retirees in the election earlier this year, Italy’s populist governing coalition is now trying to dismantle a technocratic pension-reform package that former Prime Minister Mario Monti pushed through in 2011.
At the end of the day, conditioning retirement benefits on work represents a fair compromise between the self-defeating technocratic approach and the unsustainable populist approach.
The Commission was originally created as a technocratic body relatively independent of either national or supranational control - correctly so, given its mandate.
It must greatly reduce the technocratic aspects of its approach to external action, and at the same time make its relations with southern Mediterranean countries a top priority.
Many Germans may despise Greece’s current Syriza government, which pledged to end the policy of creditor-imposed austerity; but four consecutive governments – center-left, technocratic, center-right, and left – have implemented it.
And if those attacks include forcing Patel out, the blow to the RBI – the only well-respected technocratic institution in India’s mostly dysfunctional bureaucracy – would be severe.
The situation in the eurozone is particularly unstable, owing to citizens’ growing alienation from a distant, technocratic elite; the absence of conventional economic adjustment mechanisms (exchange rates, inflation, public investment, and so on); and tight limits on fiscal transfers, which send powerful signals about the real boundaries of cohesion.
But the depth and persistence of the ongoing crisis have exposed the euro’s fundamental fragilities, and should serve as a warning that today’s technocratic Band-Aids may not hold in the face of another shock.
It contains an essential truth – the disregard of which says much about how we – the world’s financial, political, and technocratic elite – distanced ourselves from our compatriots and lost their trust.
The president of Germany’s Constitutional Court openly speculates that, if more Europe is needed for technocratic reasons, it might be time for the people to vote on a new constitution.
From this technocratic perspective, Brussels today maintains functions that even within nation states are often delegated to institutions that are not democratically elected.
They argue that a new caretaker government, probably led by the technocratic finance minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, will reform electoral laws to keep the Five Star Movement from power.
Otherwise, the goal of global governance embodies a yearning for technocratic solutions that override and undercut public deliberation.
These include the royal family itself; the bureaucracy and technocratic elites; the media and intelligentsia; the massive national oil company, Saudi Aramco; and the religious establishment and its various institutions.
To tell people who have been hurt that they could have been spared the pain does not give them any less reason to complain; it just fuels resentment of technocratic experts.
If it does, it will be a transforming event of grand strategy, beside which Desert Storm will seem to be just a temper tantrum of a technocratic adolescent with hi-tech toys.
Anti-austerity anger swept away the reform agenda of Mario Monti’s previous technocratic government, leaving Italy, its future uncertain, to continue muddling through.
Instead, encouraged by his country’s victory, Italy’s new technocratic prime minister, Mario Monti, in alliance with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, pressed German Chancellor Angela Merkel for easier access to ESM support – and scored another major victory for his country.
We need to recognize that global governance is not a technocratic puzzle to be solved by clever institutional design.
The glacially technocratic and apolitical International Monetary Fund, in its latest report on the eurozone, goes as far as mentioning “political union and ex ante fiscal risk sharing” as conditions for any monetary union to work.
The Hour of the TechnocratsCAMBRIDGE – Greece and Italy, desperate after their gridlocked political systems left them mired in debt and crisis, have both chosen technocratic economists – Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti, respectively – rather than politicians to lead new governments.
Monti, despite strong popular support for his technocratic government, does not have a parliamentary majority upon which he can rely.
It is a mistake to conflate technocratic elites (those with PhDs or other advanced economics degrees) with other kinds of elites (those with money or power, especially if they inherited one or the other).
But neither Papademos nor Monti can work any technocratic magic if they are not given the political tools to get the right policies enacted.
His emergency technocratic government, supported by the left and right, was a masterstroke of outgoing President Giorgio Napolitano.
But, as working-class Thais, who had tolerated military and technocratic rule for decades, came to embrace the kingdom’s new democratic politics, they voted for populist parties that would shift political power away from the royal, military, and political elites.
Non-depression economics eschews fiscal policy, on the grounds that central banks’ tools are powerful enough and their decision-making more effective and technocratic than that by legislatures.
Europe-wide presidential elections, for which many senior political figures have called, would help to stem the erosion of political legitimacy that has cost the EU, in its technocratic incarnation, the respect, sense of identification, and even the attention of its citizens.
BackNext