Over the past few decades, governments in many nations have increasingly delegated political decisions to expert agencies, portraying the issues they deal with--such as drug policy or monetary policy--as technocratic or managerial in nature. This has had the effect of essentially removing a large number of important political decisions from public debate--a situation that has led many commentators to worry about a -crisis of democracy, - or, even worse, the -end of politics.- This book offers a nuanced perspective on that situation, charting the dynamics of politicization and depoliticization...