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A comment on Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order (2019).

Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by InfiniteRand on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:25AM (#29840184)
Here’s a question, if you have certain goals for a government like defense, education, etc. and you create a bureaucracy to recommend the best researched policies for these goals, what is the role of democracy? Just checking for errors from the bureaucracy?
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Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by denton-scratch on Friday January 07, 2022 @12:42PM (#29842100)
To prevent the bureaucracy from charging off to pursue goals they weren't asked to pursue.
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