Definition of "telocratic"

Yet it is abundantly clear that in practice, if not always in rhetoric, most contemporary Western governments have operated with telocratic assumptions.

1994, Bryan S. Turner, Peter Hamilton, Citizenship: Critical Concepts, page 28

The goals which telocratic governments seek to secure for people whether the welfare goals of health, education, and social security and goals of a darker hue such as racial, ethnic, national, cultural, or religious purity equally have their roots deep in European history.

2009, Raymond Plant, The Neo-liberal State, page 13

The enterprise association or telocratic order, as the names show, is based on a unifying purpose, on a common enterprise, which initiates the voluntary gathering of its members in order to attempt to reach or pursue it.

2016, João Carlos Espada, The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty: A view from Europe

Carpinus and Abies expanded in the telocratic phase, Carpinus before Abies in the west, the two simultaneously in eastern Europe.

2012, B. Huntley, T. Webb III, Vegetation history, page 173

Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic , mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.

1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229

Significantly, his pollen deposits reveal the conditions both in the oligocratic and the telocratic.

1982, John D. Hamaker, Donald A. Weaver, The Survival of Civilization Depends Upon Our Solving Three Problems, page 64