Technocracy
Technocracy: critical analysis of delegating political decisions to technical experts.
Technocracy is the tendency or regime where political decisions are delegated to technical experts instead of elected representatives. Promises efficiency and rationality but, from the democratic critique (Habermas, Sandel in The Tyranny of Merit 2020), depoliticizes inherently normative issues and excludes citizens from debate. The tension between technical expertise and democratic deliberation is one of the central problems of contemporary liberal democracy.
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