| The EU's business is often too technocratic and complex to evince strong political emotions. |
| Theirs was a generation that emphasized technocratic, expert policymaking, not democratic processes. |
| Kierans did not share the technocratic credentialism that would eventually make the MBA degree such a hot academic commodity. |
| The need for greater democracy is not an idea dreamt up by the technocratic institutions of the industrialized world. |
| In recent years, academic credentials and technocratic knowledge have become more important than political and electoral experience. |
| Workfare regimes are not monolithic systems, but dynamic configurations of restless reform, technocratic emulation, and tangled scalar relations. |
