Hyper-active governance: how governments manage the politics of expertise

By:

Wood, Matthew

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge University Press New York 2019Description: xviii, 269 pISBN:

9781108492614

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.6 WOO

Summary: 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. Develops a new explanation for the different ways politicians relate to expert agencies during periods of political stress Analyses detailed case studies and global datasets appealing to a global audience of academics and policy makers who want to know how best to organise the relationship between experts and politicians Covers multiple literatures, uses interdisciplinary theory and advances a new concept of 'hyper-active governance'

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Public Policy & General Management	320.6 WOO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		002500

Table of Contents
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.

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.

Develops a new explanation for the different ways politicians relate to expert agencies during periods of political stress
Analyses detailed case studies and global datasets appealing to a global audience of academics and policy makers who want to know how best to organise the relationship between experts and politicians
Covers multiple literatures, uses interdisciplinary theory and advances a new concept of 'hyper-active governance'

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