Home / Ideologies / Liberal Technocracy
Synthesis of the Asian Tigers: entrusts government to a merit-recruited technical elite insulated from the vote and guided by results rather than doctrine, combining free trade, open markets and low taxation with strict public order and state planning where it proves effective.
In one sentence
I want a government of a merit-recruited technical elite, insulated from the popular vote, guiding free trade and public order by results, not doctrine.
Political topics
Leans further toward free market than 86% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Free market is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Founder of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew transformed the city-state into a model of authoritarian capitalism, uniting open markets, technocratic meritocracy, strict order, and heavily restricted political freedoms.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
The most distant
Reference country
An Asian city-state, Singapore is a parliamentary republic dominated by a single party, combining open capitalism, efficient technocratic management, strict order, and limited political freedoms in the name of progress.
Other close countries
A global financial center, Hong Kong is an autonomous region of strong free-market capitalism and technocratic management, whose broad autonomy has been increasingly restricted by mainland China's political control.
Also close, by dimension
The most distant
Under Alberto Fujimori, Peru combined a self-coup and the closing of Congress with neoliberal shock reforms, privatisations and trade liberalisation, alongside a dirty war against the Shining Path marked by massacres and forced sterilisations.
Also close, by dimension
The most distant
Ideological proximity
Closest within Right
Pragmatic branch that prioritizes fiscal adjustment, economic stability, and governability through broad coalitions, accepting market reforms and political concessions in the name of short- and medium-term results.
Model that entrusts the management of the state and the economy to experts and technological efficiency, combining markets, innovation, and technical decisions instead of political deliberation and traditional party competition.
Conservative branch that defends order, tradition, and institutions without grounding them in religion, supporting cultural values and social stability with secular, historical, and pragmatic arguments.
Closest in other spectrums
Current that combines a market economy, private property, trade openness, and technocracy with low democratic participation, holding that a strong, efficient state should preserve order, stability, and growth.
Pragmatic reform initiated by Deng Xiaoping that introduced markets, private property, and economic opening under the absolute control of the Communist Party, forming the model of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
A unitary variant of neoreaction: an absolute CEO-monarch rules a centralized state through data and security technology (surveillance, AI), under market capitalism, private property and free enterprise, for the sake of stability and efficiency.
The most distant ideology
Green AnarchismAnarchist23%