Definition of "technicist" []

• One skilled in technics or in the practical arts. (noun)

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• "The first cynicism argues that the ANC government is creating a 'technicist' approach to governance, meaning that all policy is reduced to technical jargon and bureaucratic reasoning."
• "Strategies that imply a technicist approach, that simply await delivery from above, will surely not come to terms with the complex and changing structures of marginalisation, exclusion and power in South Africa."
• "Over the past three years, policy formation and implementation became extremely technicist in character."