technocracy
tech·noc·racy
noun
1.
a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control
- “technocracy was described as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge”
Origin
From techno- (“technical”, “technicians”) + -cracy (“rule by”), attributed to W.H. Smyth.
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