@stephenjudkins it's just not the right word to use for a government with state capacity. "technocracy" includes that suffix -ocracy, meaning rule or control. democratic management of a capable government isn't and shouldn't be described as technocracy. obviously words are whatever people mean, but technocracy as a noun is not widely used to mean that.

(as a modifier, "technocratic"/"technocratically" ARE widely used to refer to the defensibility-as-effective of a policy though. go figure!)

@stephenjudkins (technocracy-as-a-noun is pretty much precisely what populisms are a reaction to, usurpation of that -ocracy, exclusion of members of the public from full participation in governance, on the basis of purported expertise of a class that becomes first-among-equals.)