Profili generali su normazione e scienza

Abstract

The difficulty for politicians in deciding which choices to make regarding the fight against the spread of the coronavirus has confirmed a progressive advancement of technology over politics itself.

The enlargement of the number of experts formally called upon to participate in the formation of the political choice is a phenomenon that has characterised the major European constitutional experiences of the post-war period, which has long been hoped for also by theorists of the science of legislation.

Particularly in Italy, the technical committees have assumed a leading role in the governance of critical phenomena and have contributed to the basic regulatory choices in terms of countering contagion and economic recovery. While it is natural and desirable for technology and politics to work together for the good functioning of society, when the latency of politics is accompanied by crises of various kinds, the relationship is altered and several critical profiles emerge: the subjugation of technology to politics; the sectoriality of technology; the creation of a technical-political bloc incapable of governing conflicts and removed from the ordinary cycle of evaluation of political responsibility. The recovery of the primacy of politics and the transparency of the criteria for the selection of external contributions can contribute to the rediscovery of a more lively dialectic in the relationship between politics and technology during the phases of law making process.