Book contents
- Hyper-active Governance
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
- Hyper-active Governance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I Introducing Hyper-active Governance
- Part II Hyper-active Governance in Practice
- Part III Theorising Hyper-active Governance
- 7 Frenetically Standing Still
- 8 Experts, Politics and Co-Production
- Book part
- Notes
- References
- Index
8 - Experts, Politics and Co-Production
The Need to Rethink Political Authority
from Part III - Theorising Hyper-active Governance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 June 2019
Book contents
- Hyper-active Governance
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
- Hyper-active Governance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I Introducing Hyper-active Governance
- Part II Hyper-active Governance in Practice
- Part III Theorising Hyper-active Governance
- 7 Frenetically Standing Still
- 8 Experts, Politics and Co-Production
- Book part
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
This book has been about the relationship between politicians and experts, and how governments manage the inevitable consequences of giving experts more power over important political decisions. Governments manage the ‘expert–politics nexus’ by defending the experts from public attack, resourcing them to tackle emergencies and making them include alternative conceptions of ‘expertise’. Principals and agents interact closely to deal with substantive challenges whilst simultaneously handling inevitable public criticism.
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- Hyper-active GovernanceHow Governments Manage the Politics of Expertise, pp. 214 - 225Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019