Political leaders must gain enough technical culture to judge expert advice

Evidence

The traditional type of political “leader”, prepared only for formal-juridical activities, is becoming anachronistic and represents a danger for the life of the State: the leader must have that minimum of general technical culture which will permit him, if not to “create” autonomously the correct solution, at least to know how to adjudicate between the solutions put forward by the experts, and hence to choose the correct one from the “synthetic” viewpoint of political technique. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 333

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Expert knowledge use in politics is a democratic decision; An agency’s statutory breadth and continuity exceed its technical expertness as grounds for respect — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 2573