Technocracy
Technocracy holds that public decisions should be made by experts on the basis of evidence, data and engineering rather than by party competition or popular opinion. It values competence and long-term planning over ideological debate.
- Policy questions are mostly technical and are best answered by specialists.
- Long-term planning and measurable results matter more than electoral cycles.
- Science and technology are the main drivers of social progress.
The idea draws on Henri de Saint-Simon's vision of a society run by scientists and industrialists, and Thorstein Veblen's writings on engineers. A Technocracy movement led by Howard Scott briefly flourished in North America in the 1930s. Today the term mostly describes expert governments and independent agencies, such as Italy's cabinets led by Mario Monti and Mario Draghi, or central banks.
Critics argue that most political questions involve values, not just facts, and that expert rule weakens democratic accountability. Populists on both sides attack technocrats as an unelected elite.
Countries and historical regimes whose 12-axis profile is closer to Technocracy than to any other ideology in the test.
Historical regimes
- Tang China71%
Technocracy is also the second-closest ideology for: Socialist Yugoslavia, Mongol Empire.
Method: each ideology is placed at a typical position on the 12 axes, scored from 0 to 100 toward the first pole. Ranks compare it with the other 45 ideologies; matches are 100 minus the average distance across all axes. The positions are our own calibration, not taken from any third-party source.