| Manchester's pragmatic political culture is technocratic and focused on outputs rather than grandstanding. |
| It's a gargantuan challenge, but the possibility of continuing with a remote, technocratic Europe died this week. |
| The need for greater democracy is not an idea dreamt up by the technocratic institutions of the industrialized world. |
| Workfare regimes are not monolithic systems, but dynamic configurations of restless reform, technocratic emulation, and tangled scalar relations. |
| Theirs was a generation that emphasized technocratic, expert policymaking, not democratic processes. |
| In recent years, academic credentials and technocratic knowledge have become more important than political and electoral experience. |
