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He seems to be imprisoned in the contemporary technocratic imagination, which views the expert as the solution and the people as a problem.

The European Commission is often the place for dry, technocratic announcements, but the Spanish commissioner, Loyola de Palacio, was angry.

Indeed, the book gives a strong sense of the confidence of the technocratic elite in India's performance and prospects.

Financial regulations do not result from a technocratic exercise, but are primarily the outcome of a political process.

For all his technocratic brilliance, however, Gamal desperately lacks any hint of a common touch.

In Italy, as in Greece, the expectation is that this task will fall to a technocratic government.

Mr Jupp was floored in part by his contemptuous, technocratic attitude towards union leaders.

The arrival of technocratic prime ministers in Greece and Italy has not been greeted with universal applause.

The decade shows that political problems cannot be solved with technocratic solutions.

Where Mr Gbagbo, a southerner, was outgoing and jolly, the new president is at times seen as cold and technocratic.

It is hardly unblemished (one ex-governor is appealing against a jail sentence), but it has produced a technocratic elite of sorts.

That prerogative belongs to President Giorgio Napolitano, who may want a transitional, technocratic government to guarantee stability.

It will be hard for parties to water down the measures while the technocratic government is still in its early stages.

Despite his almost technocratic style, Mr Bloomberg has impressed the electorate as manager of the once "ungovernable" city.

Her technocratic leadership style, once reassuring, looks out of touch now.

It is not subverting its democratic system by resorting to a stopgap technocratic government.

MissMulyani, one of Mr Yudhoyono's technocratic appointees, is much admired by foreign bankers and businessmen.

But as in Kenya, many Ghanaians complain that their government's technocratic talk is not matched by action.

His successor, Jiang Zemin, was chosen for his technocratic skills and ability to compromise, not for his charm.

But by politicising or paralysing the technocratic Fed, it could have dangerous consequences.

Neither is a good public face for the administration: Mr Summers can seem arrogant, Mr Geithner too technocratic.

and sufficient technocratic expertise to command intellectual authority.

Even in the esoteric upper reaches of the European commission, the language has become passionate rather than technocratic.

Thus the novel shows profound social significance: in this technocratic-business world, where on earth the literati should head for.

If the technocratic Mr Singh were forced out, attention would turn to her.

The more technocratic departments could be led by captains of industry or accomplished scientists.

The political uncertainty in Greece has eased as a new technocratic government was sworn in on Friday.

Italy's new technocratic government under Mario Monti has not seen any relief either: ten-year yields remain well above 6%.

Mr Monti's technocratic cabinet contains bankers, ambassadors and bureaucrats but no politicians.

Instead, Republicans decry the technocratic rationing model as "death panels. "

This is a technocratic coded message to China: You're rigging your currency to keep it cheap, and the U. S. economy is paying the price.

Technocratic language and hasty writing have replaced elegance and reflection.

The younger Mubarak, at 46, has established himself as heir apparent by drawing new blood into the NDP and backing technocratic reform.

When campaigning, however, he sometimes resorts to less technocratic sound-bites.

Italy and Greece, under new technocratic governments, may now be more serious about living within their means and reforming their faults.

The research can be worthy, technocratic stuff.

And it's more like a religious proclamation than a technocratic assessment.

This is not to diminish the central bank, but it fulfils a largely technocratic function.

A purely rational or technocratic approach is likely to lead one astray.

Unlike the new technocratic prime ministers in Greece and Italy, he will have a strong mandate for reform.

Even when the centre-left has ruled Italy it has done so with technocratic help.

As a result, his rhetoric on things like pushing power from the state towards civil society ended up being stiflingly technocratic.

Even a wholly technocratic government can never fully escape politics.

But the main obstacle to the IMF single-handedly saving the world is not technocratic but political.

Leading Hamas people in Gaza are afraid lest a technocratic, business-friendly government in Gaza impede their Islamist plans.

The result is a cabinet that is neither purely technocratic nor quite a national unity government, and whose powers are unclear.

Lastly, not impossibly, the shrewd and technocratic Mr Mbeki might stay.

He still says he was very much a "bit-player" in the LSE-Libya relationship, offering technocratic advice.

Or might we be seeing a swing towards technocratic leadership?

But part of the EU's problem is that its main achievements do seem technocratic and boring.

How many technocrats, and in which positions, justify a government's "technocratic" label?

It is tempting to view the problem of failed states in technocratic terms.

It is already clear that his government will be more technocratic and more centrist than Mr Uribe's populist conservatism.

The Technocratic Age is slowly designing an every day more controlled society.

The technocratic elite were trained at universities