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Abstract
Propósito – This work analyses the issue of the legitimacy of the standards produced by the regulatory activity of the State. To that end, it discusses the foundations of the regulatory State and the regulatory activity and explains the legitimacy of its legislative production, on the basis of the doctrine of the administrative State of Dwight Waldo, which defends a government of technicians, that is to say, the area of political expertise formed by a bureaucratic class of government. Methodology/approach/design – The first section of the work presents the concepts of regulation and regulatory state. In the following section we deal with the legitimate grounds for the normative production of the public administration on the basis of Dwight Waldo’s doctrine. Results – According to Dwight Waldo, the legitimacy of regulatory decisions produced by a bureaucratic corps can be established on the basis of the technical expertise of its components, accepted through a meritocratic state choice.