A technocratic system of governance is often assumed to enhance the universal over the particular and to flout the prevalence of demographic complexity. In homogenous political economies, universality enhances the embeddedness of democratic values. However, in societies marred by demographic variation, it might contribute to preferential access at the expense of the majority or even the 'greater good,' both in terms of the extractive and distributive regimes of the local state's relationship with society. It might even not be the most democratic regime preference as most management systems result from a compromise between the political elite and are not necessarily an expression of the collective will of society/societies. However, the real question is not only what the weaknesses of technocratic regimes are but whether developing political economies have a suitable institutional alternative to the bureaucratic monolith o