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Some advocates of ''technocracy'' uphold the system as a meritocracy.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=I-k0hgtaiCcC&pg=PA3 Technocracy at Work]</ref>  For elected officials, this can hold true as the voting populace would have actively made that choice and presumably a candidate's engineering or other specialization will be discussed in open debate.

Some advocates of ''technocracy'' uphold the system as a meritocracy.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=I-k0hgtaiCcC&pg=PA3 Technocracy at Work]</ref>  For elected officials, this can hold true as the voting populace would have actively made that choice and presumably a candidate's engineering or other specialization will be discussed in open debate.

But for unelected bureaucrats of a technocratic nature, meritocracy itself is undermined, and any technocratic merit will be superceded by the quagmire that the citizens are being arbitrarily dictated to.

But for unelected bureaucrats of a technocratic nature, meritocracy itself is undermined, and any technocratic merit will be superceded by the quagmire that the citizens are being arbitrarily dictated to. This has led critics to point out that technocracy is undemocratic.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=UR6Q6LugtLoC&pg=PA361 User Behavior and Technology Development: Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies], The Technocracy versus Democracy issue</ref>

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