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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2019
      June 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108592437
      9781108492614
      9781009001809
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108592437
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 288 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 290 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
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    Subjects:
    Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
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    Hyper-active Governance is a new way of thinking about governing that puts debates over expertise at the heart. Contemporary governing requires delegation to experts, but also increases demands for political accountability. In this context, politicians and experts work together under political stress to adopt different governing relationships that appear more 'hands-off' or 'hands-on'. These approaches often serve to displace profound social and economic crises. Only a genuinely collaborative approach to governing, with an inclusive approach to expertise, can create democratically legitimate and effective governance in our accelerating world. Using detailed case studies and global datasets in various policy areas including medicines, flooding, water resources, central banking and electoral administration, the book develops a new typology of modes of governing. Drawing from innovative social theory, it breathes new life into debates about expert forms of governance and how to achieve real paradigm shifts in how we govern our increasingly hyper-active world.

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    Advance praise:‘Hyper-active Governance makes a timely intervention in contemporary debates about the place of expertise in policy making. This book draws on detailed case studies to question assumptions about the dynamics of technocratic depoliticisation. It offers a novel framework through which to understand how knowledge and expertise are legitimated in the context of hyper-mediatisation and declining trust. It makes important reading for all scholars interested in the relationship between governance and expertise.'

    John Boswell - University of Southampton

    Advance praise:‘Experts rule! And can be ruled. Nowadays experts are intrinsic to governance when everyday publics often resent them or are sceptical of their contribution. Governments become ‘hyper-active' managing this contradiction. Matthew Wood creates new concepts and builds theory to explain how and why governments seek to maintain their authority when they delegate decisions to experts yet are also compelled to interfere in experts' decisions to shield themselves from public criticism. This book is essential reading for understanding the pathologies of contemporary governance.'

    Diane Stone - University of Canberra

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