Hyper-active Governance (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy)
Cambridge University Press, 6/27/2019
EAN 9781108492614, ISBN10: 1108492614
Hardcover, 278 pages, 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
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.
Part I. Introducing Hyper-active Governance
1. The 'cult of the expert'
2. Managing the 'expert-politics nexus'
a conceptual map
Part II. Hyper-active Governance in Practice
3. Defence
health technology assessment
4. Empowerment
emergency management and flooding governance
5. Inclusion
water resource governance
6. Defend, empower and include
hyper-active governance in monetary policy and electoral administration
Part III. Theorising Hyper-active Governance
7. Frenetically standing still
hyper-active governance and social acceleration
8. Experts, politics and co-production
the need to rethink political authority
Appendices
Endnotes
References
Index.