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                %CHECKS AND BALANCES OF TECHNOCRATS 800016

     The  American  political system entails a  system  of
checks and balances between branches of government.   Yet,
within  those  branches  of government  a  single  set  of
intellectual  presuppositions may dominate.   There is  no
firm  tradition of checks and balances to insure  that  no
one  set of presuppositions dominate to the  exclusion  of
complementary ones.

     The preoccupations of technocrats include concern for
gaining control of situations.   Within a political system
it is natural for a technocrat who has made certain  basic
assumptions---to  gain  control  to  prevent  people  with
opposing  "false"  presuppositions from having any  power.
Technocrats  are prone to place high value upon scientific
"truth"  which clearly points the way to what "should"  be
done in  a  presumably "objective"  way.   They tend to---
obscure  differences between scientific  considerations---
and  the  operation  of values in  setting  priorities  in
personal   ways.    Through  such  obscuration   technical
assumptions   come  to  dominance---to  the  exclusion  of
personal considerations.  Technocrats  in  all branches of
government tend to undermine  the power of person-oriented
members  all  branches  of government---and  so  undermine
informal  checks and  balances  regarding the dominance of
assumptions and presuppositions.

     It  will  not  be  easy to  institute  a  humane  and
workable system  of  checks  and balances.   Any effort to
make it systematic---may bias  it in favor of technocrats.
Any effort to make it personable---may bias it in favor of
persons  prone  to  personal dominance  in  a  dictatorial
manner.  A  formal balance will not be easy to conceive in
the  absence  of  appropriate parental  role  models  and
religious contexts.

                                                                                                                               
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