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7 - Frenetically Standing Still

Hyper-active Governance and Social Acceleration

from Part III - Theorising Hyper-active Governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2019

Matthew Wood
Matthew Wood
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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Summary

This book has shown that experts widely assumed to have been given much autonomy over governance over the past three decades are in fact intimately linked to the state. Governments defend them from public attack (see Chapter 3), empower them with more resources to fight crises (Chapter 4) and include a wider range of ‘experts’ in their working (Chapter 5). Successful areas of public policy widely claimed to be the domain of experts – monetary policy and electoral administration specifically – are designed to be closely connected with, and steered by, public authorities. This chapter turns to the theoretical implications of this argument and, in particular, delves deeper into explaining the ‘pathological’ aspects of the case studies, noted in Chapters 3–5.

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social accelerationpolicy theorycapitalismlate modernitypolicy change
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Hyper-active Governance
How Governments Manage the Politics of Expertise
 , pp. 192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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