technocracy

Definition

Society which is neither a democracy nor a bureaucracy because the real power has shifted from the elected representatives and bureaucrats to technocrats (engineers, managers, scientists). The term was coined by the US engineer William Henry Smyth (1855-1940) in 1919 and popularized by James Burham (1905-87) in his 1941 book 'Managerial Revolution.'


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