The traditional paradigms of rule making, which hinge on political law, increas-
ingly show their inadequacy with respect to the rule making needs coming from
reality; the growing weight assumed by technique in rule making is an evident sign
of this. The essay, after proposing a systematization of the variegated relationship between politics and technique, comes to outline a model of standardization
(defined as evidence-based) in which, while maintaining the centrality of the
political decision-maker, the now unavoidable contribution of technique is inte-
grated in the normative paradigm: a model that can represent the form that, in the
legal dimension, the answer to the dilemma of complexity is taking.
