0 an expert in science or technology who has a lot of power in or influence with the government or industry:
1 a person with a lot of scientific or technical knowledge who has an important position in a government or in an industry:
Technocrats do not always have the marketing skills necessary to be successful businessmen.
Economic technocrats are likely to have a significant influence on such policy specifics.
It seems, then, that donors and technocrats, rather than the president, drove reform efforts between 1991 and 1995.
The turnover of technocrats in the cabinet has decreased markedly, with their average age dramatically increasing.
These technocrats began to apply technological solutions to economic problems, strove for efficiency and built up state regulatory agencies to administer their reforms.
What resulted was a tripartite alliance among the military elite, the state technocrats, and big business.
Second, among core political actors, we expect the choices of technocrats to be less determined by value rationality than the choices of politicians.
The case studies are intended only to investigate whether there is process evidence for the hypothesized crisis-era roles of dispersed groups and technocrats.
In democracies, the autonomy of leaders and technocrats is subject to a dispersed group support constraint.
