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6 - Defend, Empower and Include

Hyper-active Governance in Monetary Policy and Electoral Administration

from Part II - Hyper-active Governance in Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2019

Matthew Wood
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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Summary

This book has examined three case studies of policy areas in which it is possible to observe dynamics of hyper-active governance. In each area, politicians must manage the dual demands of relying upon ‘independent’ experts in delegated agencies – what Alasdair Roberts (2011) called the ‘logic of discipline’ – with a wish to impose democratically legitimated state authority – a ‘logic of democracy’. This tension is constantly managed, and the international analysis of developments in each policy area and process-tracing cases identify the distinctive dynamics in each area. These were summed up in terms of three styles: defence (the protection of expert independence), empowerment (the provision of resources to experts to tackle policy problems) and inclusion (the reform of agencies to include diverse stakeholders and conceptions of expertise). This chapter looks at how these styles can be distinguished more clearly from one another. In particular, it argues that the ‘defence’ style can operate alongside the ‘empowerment’ and ‘inclusion’ styles, both in the institutional design of agencies and how they work in practice.

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Hyper-active Governance
How Governments Manage the Politics of Expertise
, pp. 165 - 190
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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