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Not really, generally someone is considered a technocrat when she/he is appointed to some government position regardless of their political affiliation and pure
by qwytw 5y ago
Not really, generally someone is considered a technocrat when she/he is appointed to some government position regardless of their political affiliation and purely because of their expertise in the area related to that position not because they might have a degree in STEM E.g. the current PM of Italy Mario Draghi can be considered a technocrat, but definitely not Thatcher or Carter.
- mongol 5y agoAgreed. An elected politician, no matter what background, can't really be a technocrat.
- culi 5y agoI mean, hypothetically, there could be ways to merge technocracy and democracy. People could vote on a selection of top experts for example. Or perhaps people could vote for what technical background they think is most important for a position and experts of those backgrounds are automatically assigned to the role Just some ideas
- mongol 5y agoYes good points. If a specialist background is required for election, you get some degree of technocracy into it.
- qwytw 5y agoSo basically a government funded committee would decide who gets appointed to any public office. Alternatively we can just select a random person with a relevant bacgkround/degree..