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.
Not an economist or technocrat himself, he always had an open ear for the advocates of the necessity of elements of self-management.
The other important contribution to systemic corruption is the rise of charismatic politicians, technocrats, bureaucrats, and military commanders with their visions and ambitions.
In the 1890s, there was still a sense amongst city councillors and technocrats that the city was clearly limited and constrained.
As argued above, there were internal pressures for liberalisation from both the private sector and ' technocrats ' in the government.
A second political influence runs through economic technocrats.
Second, the crisis approach should be elaborated with an emphasis on the related roles of dispersed interest groups and technocrats.
Second, he argues that political considerations, not the prescriptions of technocrats, were the motive force behind economic policy in both countries.
In democracies, the autonomy of leaders and technocrats is subject to a dispersed group support constraint.