The second Yatsenyuk government was created in Ukraine after the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election . On 2 December 2014, 288 members (of the 423) of the Ukrainian parliament approved the composition of the cabinet. The Government was backed by (the political parties) Petro Poroshenko Bloc , People's Front , Self Reliance , Fatherland and Radical Party .
51-480: Radical Party left the coalition on 1 September 2015. After Fatherland and Self Reliance left the coalition on 17 and 18 February 2016 the coalition became 5 deputies short of the 226 needed. It was then disputed that Radical Party had left the coalition until on 29 March 2016 it was officially announced in parliament that on September 1, 2015, Radical Party had left the coalition. On 10 April 2016 Prime Minister Yatsenyuk announced he resigned. On 14 April 2016 Yatsenyuk
102-724: A "legislative monopoly" over the EU lawmaking process. The briefing suggests that this system, which elevates the European Parliament to a vetoing and amending body, was "originally rooted in the mistrust of the political process in post-war Europe". This system is unusual since the Commission's sole right of legislative initiative is a power usually associated with Parliaments. Several governments in European parliamentary democracies have been labelled 'technocratic' based on
153-428: A "technocratic divide" exists between a governing body controlled to varying extents by technocrats and members of the general public. Technocratic divides are "efficacy gaps that persist between governing bodies employing technocratic principles and members of the general public aiming to contribute to government decision making." Technocracy privileges the opinions and viewpoints of technical experts, exalting them into
204-491: A certain grasp of technical skill rather than democratic mandate. Technocrats are individuals with technical training and occupations who perceive many important societal problems as being solvable with the applied use of technology and related applications. The administrative scientist Gunnar K. A. Njalsson theorizes that technocrats are primarily driven by their cognitive "problem-solution mindsets" and only in part by particular occupational group interests. Their activities and
255-420: A conflict between physical efficiency and cost efficiency in the new corporate capitalist enterprises of the late nineteenth-century United States . Because of their perceptions of market demand, the profit-conscious, non-technical managers of firms where the engineers work often impose limits on the projects that engineers desire to undertake. The prices of all inputs vary with market forces, thereby upsetting
306-528: A democratic cabal directed by Mark Zuckerberg and the entire cohort of " Big Tech " executives. In his 1982 Technology and Culture journal article, "The Technocratic Image and the Theory of Technocracy", John G. Gunnell writes: "...politics is increasingly subject to the influence of technological change", with specific reference to the advent of The Long Boom and the genesis of the Internet , following
357-418: A direction of production processes under scientific management. According to Daniel Bell : "St. Simon's vision of industrial society, a vision of pure technocracy, was a system of planning and rational order in which society would specify its needs and organize the factors of production to achieve them." Citing the ideas of St. Simon, Bell concludes that the "administration of things" by rational judgment
408-448: A form of meritocracy , where the ablest are in charge, ostensibly without the influence of special interest groups. Critics have suggested that a "technocratic divide" challenges more participatory models of democracy, describing these divides as "efficacy gaps that persist between governing bodies employing technocratic principles and members of the general public aiming to contribute to government decision making". The term technocracy
459-459: A kind of aristocracy while marginalizing the opinions and viewpoints of the general public. As major multinational technology corporations (e.g., FAANG ) swell market caps and customer counts, critiques of technocratic government in the 21st century see its manifestation in American politics not as an "authoritarian nightmare of oppression and violence" but rather as an éminence grise :
510-407: A lengthy philosophical treatise of original ideas, Tectology: Universal Organization Science . Tectology anticipated many basic ideas of systems analysis , later explored by cybernetics . In Tectology , Bogdanov proposed unifying all social, biological, and physical sciences by considering them as systems of relationships and seeking organizational principles that underlie all systems. Arguably,
561-477: A letter that announced that the Radical Party had left the coalition. It was officially announced in parliament that on 31 September 2015 Radical Party had left the coalition on 29 March 2016. On 10 April 2016 Yatsenyuk announced that he would resign as Prime Minister and would ask parliament to fire him on 12 April 2016. He added that his own party (People's Front) "remains in the coalition because today it
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#1732791745048612-585: A new coalition new elections are needed. But on 19 February 2016 First Deputy Chairman of parliament Andriy Parubiy stated that since the Parliamentary Speaker had not officially announced in parliament that Radical Party had left the coalition this party was still a part of the parliamentary coalition. Also on 19 February 2016 Radical Party leader Oleh Lyashko stated in parliament that the Parliamentary Chairman had received
663-612: A technical background. In 1986, 89% of Politburo members were engineers. Leaders of the Chinese Communist Party used to be mostly professional engineers. According to surveys of municipal governments of cities with a population of 1 million or more in China , it has been found that over 80% of government personnel had a technical education. Under the five-year plans of the People's Republic of China, projects such as
714-552: A technocrat if "at the time of their appointment to government, they: have never held public office under the banner of a political party; are not a formal member of any party; and are said to possess recognized non-party political expertise which is directly relevant to the role occupied in government". In Russia, the President of Russia has often nominated ministers based on technical expertise from outside political circles, and these have been referred to as "technocrats". Before
765-546: A technocratic government led by Mehdi Jomaa . The article "Technocrats: Minds Like Machines" states that Singapore is perhaps the best advertisement for technocracy: the political and expert components of the governing system there seem to have merged completely. This was underlined in a 1993 article in "Wired" by Sandy Sandfort, where he describes the information technology system of the island even at that early date making it effectively intelligent. Following Samuel Haber, Donald Stabile argues that engineers were faced with
816-622: A vote of no confidence from the Ukrainian parliament . The next day Fatherland left the coalition since it believed that the previous day had shown that the government had turned into a "shadow clan-political coalition" that "doesn't want to carry out reforms". Fatherland would have liked the next government to be a technocratic government . Self Reliance then (also on 17 February 2016) issued an official statement on its Facebook page in which it argued "A cynical coup has occurred in Ukraine, with
867-647: A vote on his resignation resulting in Yatsenyuk being replaced by new Prime Minister Groysman and his Groysman Government . Under the Constitution of Ukraine the Ukrainian president submits nominations to parliament for the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and minister of defense . On 2 December 2014, President Petro Poroshenko proposed that the Verkhovna Rada reappoint Pavlo Klimkin and Stepan Poltorak for these posts. The same day Poltorak
918-524: Is "active counteraction to the Russian information aggression ". Reporters Without Borders firmly opposed the creation of such a ministry, stating "the media should not be regulated by the government". When Radical Party left the coalition on 1 September 2015 Radical Party's Vice Prime Minister Valeriy Voshchevsky tendered in his resignation. On 2 July 2015, the Minister of Ecology Ihor Shevchenko
969-404: Is a form of government in which the decision-makers are selected based on their expertise in a given area of responsibility, particularly with regard to scientific or technical knowledge. Technocracy follows largely in the tradition of other meritocratic theories and assumes full state control over political and economic issues. This system explicitly contrasts with representative democracy ,
1020-407: Is an entire government running as a technical or engineering problem and is mostly hypothetical . In more practical use, technocracy is any portion of a bureaucracy run by technologists . A government in which elected officials appoint experts and professionals to administer individual government functions, and recommend legislation, can be considered technocratic. Some uses of the word refer to
1071-489: Is derived from the Greek words τέχνη, tekhne meaning skill and κράτος, kratos meaning power , as in governance , or rule . William Henry Smyth, a California engineer, is usually credited with inventing the word technocracy in 1919 to describe "the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers", although the word had been used before on several occasions. Smyth used
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#17327917450481122-624: Is led by an unelected prime minister, such as in the cases of the 2011-2012 Greek government led by economist Lucas Papademos and the Czech Republic's 2009–2010 caretaker government presided over by the state's chief statistician, Jan Fischer . In December 2013, in the framework of the national dialogue facilitated by the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet , political parties in Tunisia agreed to install
1173-412: Is the hallmark of technocracy. Alexander Bogdanov , a Russian scientist and social theorist, also anticipated a conception of technocratic process. Both Bogdanov's fiction and his political writings, which were highly influential, suggest that he was concerned that a coming revolution against capitalism could lead to a technocratic society. From 1913 until 1922, Bogdanov immersed himself in writing
1224-414: Is the only way to defend the state." On 25 March 2016 Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Groysman had been nominated by coalition partner Petro Poroshenko Bloc to replace Yatsenyuk. On 12 April parliament did not held a vote on Yatsenyuk's resignation, because (Yatsenyuk's party) People's Front and Petro Poroshenko Bloc could not agree on the forming of a new government. On 14 April 2016 parliament did hold
1275-413: The 1973–1975 recession . Gunnel goes on to add three levels of analysis that delineate technology's political influence: In each of the three analytical levels, Gunnell foretells technology's infiltration of political processes and suggests that the entanglement of the two (i.e. technology and politics) will inevitably produce power concentrations around those with advanced technological training, namely
1326-554: The National Trunk Highway System , the China high-speed rail system , and the Three Gorges Dam have been completed. During China's 20th National Congress , a class of technocrats in finance and economics are replaced in favor of high-tech technocrats. In 2013, a European Union library briefing on its legislative structure referred to the Commission as a "technocratic authority", holding
1377-477: The North American population, according to resource availability. There is in common usage found the derivative term technocrat . The word technocrat can refer to someone exercising governmental authority because of their knowledge, "a member of a powerful technical elite", or "someone who advocates the supremacy of technical experts". McDonnell and Valbruzzi define a prime minister or minister as
1428-566: The Platonic idea of philosopher-kings represents a sort of technocracy in which the state is run by those with specialist knowledge, in this case, knowledge of the Good rather than scientific knowledge. The Platonic claim is that those who best understand goodness should be empowered to lead the state, as they would lead it toward the path of happiness. Whilst knowledge of the Good differs from knowledge of science, rulers are here appointed based on
1479-564: The Radical Party were also involved in negotiations. On 31 October 2014, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, the People's Front and Self Reliance formed "a joint trilateral group and that we will begin professional talks on our joint work, including on the drafting of a coalition agreement". According to deputy prime minister Volodymyr Groysman of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc his party was open to the possibility of Fatherland and
1530-490: The Technocracy movement . In 1932, Howard Scott and Marion King Hubbert founded Technocracy Incorporated and proposed that money be replaced by energy certificates. The group argued that apolitical, rational engineers should be vested with the authority to guide an economy into a thermodynamically balanced load of production and consumption, thereby doing away with unemployment and debt . The technocracy movement
1581-519: The "decline in mainstream engagement", imperil the "networked young citizen" to inconspicuous coercion and indoctrination by algorithmic mechanisms, and, less insidiously, to the persuasion of particular candidates based predominantly on "Social Media engagement". In a 2022 article published in Boston Review , political scientist Matthew Cole highlights two problems with technocracy: that it creates "unjust concentrations of power" and relies on
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1632-541: The Minister of Finance, Health and Economy. The approval of the composition of the government was marred by some last-minute delay and controversy when a group of deputies demanded that ministers be approved on an individual basis. This caused hours of debate, however, the government was approved in the proposed form by 288 deputies (of the 423). For the candidacy of the prime minister of Ukraine, 341 members of parliament voted for Arseniy Yatsenyuk . Radical Party left
1683-416: The Radical Party joining this coalition. The same day the Petro Poroshenko Bloc stated it supported the candidacy of the People's Front's Arseniy Yatsenyuk (who was Prime Minister at the time) as Prime Minister of Ukraine . On 21 November 2014, Petro Poroshenko Bloc, People's Front, Self Reliance, Fatherland and the Radical Party signed a coalition agreement. On 27 November 2014, at the opening session of
1734-475: The coalition on 1 September 2015 in protest over a vote in parliament involving a change to the Ukrainian Constitution that would lead to decentralization and greater powers for areas held by pro-Russian separatists . The same day Radical Party's Vice Prime Minister Valeriy Voshchevsky tendered in his resignation. Parliament accepted the resignation on 17 September 2015; after failing to pass
1785-609: The engineer's careful calculations. As a result, the engineer loses control over projects and must continually revise plans. To maintain control over projects, the engineer must attempt to control these outside variables and transform them into constant factors. The American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen was an early advocate of technocracy and was involved in the Technical Alliance , as were Howard Scott and M. King Hubbert (the latter of whom later developed
1836-632: The government did not have a real commitment to fight corruption . Just like Pyvovarsky, Abromavičius was never formally dismissed by parliament. Volodymyr Groysman Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 183155480 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:02:25 GMT Technocratic government List of forms of government Technocracy
1887-435: The help of the president, the prime minister, the kleptocratic part of the coalition, and the oligarch bloc" that led to the second Yatsenyuk government being an "illegitimate government". The next day Self Reliance left the coalition; meaning that the coalition became 5 deputies short of the 226 needed. Under Ukrainian law parliament has 30 days to form a new coalition after a Government coalition collapses; if it can not produce
1938-517: The increasing success of their ideas are thought to be a crucial factor behind the modern spread of technology and the largely ideological concept of the " information society ". Technocrats may be distinguished from " econocrats " and " bureaucrats " whose problem-solution mindsets differ from those of the technocrats. The former government of the Soviet Union has been referred to as a technocracy. Soviet leaders like Leonid Brezhnev often had
1989-403: The motion four times on 15 September 2015. February 2016 saw the start of the fall of the cabinet after economy minister Aivaras Abromavičius announced his resignation claiming the government did not have a real commitment to fight corruption . On 16 February 2016, president Petro Poroshenko asked Prime Minister Yatsenyuk to resign. Also on 16 February 2016 the government managed to survive
2040-463: The new parliament, these 5 parliamentary factions formed a parliamentary coalition of 302 deputies. Following this Arseniy Yatsenyuk was confirmed as prime minister by 341 votes. On 2 December 2014, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko granted citizenship to Natalie Jaresko , Alexander Kvitashvili and Aivaras Abromavičius , who were all potential ministers in the government. Later that day Jaresko, Kvitashvili and Abromavičius were confirmed as
2091-481: The notion that elected representatives should be the primary decision-makers in government, though it does not necessarily imply eliminating elected representatives. Decision-makers are selected based on specialized knowledge and performance rather than political affiliations, parliamentary skills, or popularity. The term technocracy was initially used to signify the application of the scientific method to solving social problems. In its most extreme form, technocracy
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2142-489: The participation of unelected experts ('technocrats') in prominent positions. Since the 1990s, Italy has had several such governments (in Italian, governo tecnico ) in times of economic or political crisis, including the formation in which economist Mario Monti presided over a cabinet of unelected professionals . The term 'technocratic' has been applied to governments where a cabinet of elected professional politicians
2193-465: The technocrats. Forty years after the publication of Gunnell's writings, technology and government have become, for better or for worse, increasingly intertwined. Facebook can be considered a technocratic microcosm, a "technocratic nation-state" with a cyberspatial population that surpasses any terrestrial nation. In a broader sense, critics fear that the rise of social media networks (e.g. Twitter , YouTube , Instagram , Pinterest ), coupled with
2244-791: The term Technocracy in his 1919 article "'Technocracy'—Ways and Means to Gain Industrial Democracy" in the journal Industrial Management (57). Smyth's usage referred to Industrial democracy : a movement to integrate workers into decision-making through existing firms or revolution. In the 1930s, through the influence of Howard Scott and the technocracy movement he founded, the term technocracy came to mean 'government by technical decision making', using an energy metric of value. Scott proposed that money be replaced by energy certificates denominated in units such as ergs or joules , equivalent in total amount to an appropriate national net energy budget, and then distributed equally among
2295-425: The term technocracy was coined, technocratic or quasi-technocratic ideas involving governance by technical experts were promoted by various individuals, most notably early socialist theorists such as Henri de Saint-Simon . This was expressed by the belief in state ownership over the economy, with the state's function being transformed from pure philosophical rule over men into a scientific administration of things and
2346-402: The theory of peak oil ). Veblen believed technological developments would eventually lead to a socialistic reorganization of economic affairs. Veblen saw socialism as one intermediate phase in an ongoing evolutionary process in society that would be brought about by the natural decay of the business enterprise system and the rise of the engineers. Daniel Bell sees an affinity between Veblen and
2397-706: Was briefly popular in the US in the early 1930s during the Great Depression . By the mid-1930s, interest in the movement was declining. Some historians have attributed the decline to the rise of Roosevelt's New Deal . Historian William E. Akin rejects this conclusion. Instead, Akin argues that the movement declined in the mid-1930s due to the technocrats' failure to devise a 'viable political theory for achieving change'. Akin postulates that many technocrats remained vocal, dissatisfied, and often sympathetic to anti-New Deal third-party efforts. Critics have suggested that
2448-486: Was fired by parliament because "[the ministry] doesn't fulfill its basic functions and obligations". During the lifespan of the second Yatsenyuk Government the Cabinet Ministers of agriculture, health and information Oleksiy Pavlenko , Alexander Kvitashvili and Yuriy Stets all announced and later withdrew their resignations. On 11 December 2015 infrastructure minister Andriy Pyvovarsky resigned. Pyvovarsk
2499-539: Was never formally dismissed by parliament. On 4 February 2016 leader of Self Reliance parliamentary faction Oleh Berezyuk stated that Pavlenko no longer represented his party in the second Yatsenyuk Government. When Fatherland left the Yatsenyuk Government on 17 February 2016 its minister Ihor Zhdanov refused to resign and hence was expelled from Fatherland. Economy minister Aivaras Abromavičius announced his resignation on 3 February 2016 claiming
2550-434: Was reappointed as Minister of Defense by 347 People's Deputies of Ukraine and Klimkin as Minister of Foreign Affairs by 351 votes. A few hours later 288 Deputies (of the 423) approved the composition of other ministers in one vote. The Ministry of Information is a new ministry which oversees the information policy related to the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine ; according to its Minister Yuriy Stets one of its goals
2601-726: Was replaced by new Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and thus the Groysman Government became the next cabinet of Ukraine. The morning after the 26 October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and the People's Front started negotiations on forming a parliamentary coalition. 226 votes are needed to form a simple majority in the Verkhovna Rada . Late 27 October preliminary results indicated that both parties had won (together) 207 seats. By 30 October 2014 Self Reliance , Fatherland and
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