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    It is not the case that Grounding authority in expertise rather than popular participation better satisfies the Weberian condition of legitimate rational-legal governance for complex global risks.

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    • 1.Expertise without accountability enables paternalism and disconnects decisions from affected populations' values and lived experience.
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    • 2.Weber himself argued rational-legal authority requires transparent procedures and institutional checks, which expert rule often circumvents.
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    • 3.Experts disagree significantly on policy; choosing one faction's expertise over democratic input merely hides value judgments as technical facts.
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    • 1.Complex global risks (pandemics, nuclear, AI) require specialized knowledge that general publics lack, making expert-led decisions more likely to be technically sound.
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    • 2.Weber's rational-legal legitimacy depends on rule-following and competence, not consent; expertise satisfies this better than populism's appeal to sentiment.
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    • 3.Democratic deliberation on technical matters is slow and vulnerable to misinformation, creating dangerous delays in crisis response.
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