scientocracy

English

Etymology

From sciento- +‎ -cracy; first known use in 1887.

Noun

scientocracy (countable and uncountable, plural scientocracies)

1. An elite community of scientists.
   • 1887, Florence Caddy, Through the fields with Linnaeus: a chapter in Swedish history, volume 1, page 294:

     His lesson in Hamburg had taught him that a novus homo must not be arrogant when he enters the society of the scientocracy, and that he must not run himself rashly against vested interests.

   • 1968, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Center occasional papers, volume 3, number 3, page 75:

     It could only appear through some dictatorial coup d'etat by a future scientocracy.

   • 2000, Charles Edgley with Dennis Brissett, A Nation of Meddlers, page 43:

     the roots of which lie in the curious marriage of the prohibitionist spirit and the new scientocracies that govern our lives.

2. (governance) The practice of basing public policies on science.
   • 2009, Peter Ubel, Scientocracy: Policy making that reflects human nature.:

     When I talk about Scientocracy, then, I'm not talking about a world ruled by behavioral scientists, or any other kind of scientists. Instead, I am imagining a government of the people, but informed by scientists.

Related terms

• scientocrat
• scientocratic
• technocracy
• technocrat

Translations

members of an elite community of scientists

• Arabic: سِيَاسَة عَامَّة عِلْمِيَّة (siyāsa ʕāmma ʕilmiyya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科學統治／科学统治 (kēxué tǒngzhì)

• French: scientocratie f
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• Spanish: cienciocracia
• Swedish: scientokrati

Anagrams

• carcinocytes