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techno- (“technical”, “technicians”) +‎ -cracy (“rule by”), attributed to W.H. Smyth.^[1]

technocracy (countable and uncountable, plural technocracies)

A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise.
- 1919, William Henry Smyth, Technocracy, first, second and third series, published 1921, page 20:
  When scientific imagination and knowledge of Nature's Laws are substituted in our economics for chance, mystery, and magic; […] when this economic childish irrationality is sanely substituted by organized Science, Technology, and specialized Skill co-ordinated in National Industrial Management, then will begin real civilization, the Age of Social Sanity, — Technocracy.
- 2018 December 17, Slavoj Žižek, “The yellow vest protesters revolting against centrism mean well – but their left wing populism won’t change French politics”, in The Independent‎^[2]:
  Macron may be the best of the existing system, but his politics is located within the liberal-democratic coordinates of the enlightened technocracy.

a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise

^ William Henry Smyth (1919) “‘Technocracy’—Ways and Means to Gain Industrial Democracy”, in Technocracy, first, second and third series‎^[1], published 1921