Efforts to reverse technocratic expertise tend to fail as mere moralism

Evidence

What is involved is a necessary, organic development which tends to integrate the personnel specialised in the technique of politics with personnel specialised in the concrete problems of administering the essential practical activities of the great and complex national societies of today. Hence every attempt to exorcise these tendencies from the outside produces no result other than moralistic sermons and rhetorical lamentations. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 332

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Technical sophistication of policy has discouraged public engagement with values in assessment — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 664; Elite policy expertise implies no inclination to serve the common good — Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, Testing Theories of American Politics:…, 139