Oxford Scholarship Online 2017
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198748977.003.0001
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Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance

Abstract: This chapter introduces the volume, sets out its key themes, and explains how the chapters interrogate the nexus between governance and anti-politics via the concept of depoliticization. It argues that the literature on governance has drawn attention to a ‘capacity gap’ between elected politicians and those who actually take decisions about essential public services, while the literature on anti-politics has highlighted a growing ‘democratic gap’ between politicians and citizens. These issues arise in a dynami… Show more

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“…Our analysis also suggests that technopopulism can be considered to be one the basic elements of the new trends of depoliticisation (Hay, 2007(Hay, , 2014Fawcett et al, 2017). At the same time, hyper-representation, favouring an anti-pluralist wave, constitutes another important tool for depoliticisation processes.…”
Section: Technopopulismmentioning
confidence: 70%
“…Our analysis also suggests that technopopulism can be considered to be one the basic elements of the new trends of depoliticisation (Hay, 2007(Hay, , 2014Fawcett et al, 2017). At the same time, hyper-representation, favouring an anti-pluralist wave, constitutes another important tool for depoliticisation processes.…”
Section: Technopopulismmentioning
confidence: 70%
“…Especially important is the guarantee of adequate commitment among the institutions of representative democracy (Torfing et al, 2012;Sørensen and Torfing, 2017;Fawcett et al, 2017). Such guarantees may be secured through the participation of political or administrative leaders, and by ensuring that essential strategic decision-making is conducted directly by the city or municipal council, or more indirectly as a result of the network.…”
Section: An Analytical Tool For Studying Multilevel Networkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…• Proposition 2 (supply-side): if politicians were less enamoured by depoliticized forms of authority and not compromised by special interests then citizens would be less disaffected with their performance (e.g. Hay 2007;Flinders and Buller 2006;Marsh et al 2016, 388;Wood and Flinders 2014;Fawcett et al 2017). As 'insiders', we might expect civil servants to be critical of special interests exerting 'undue influence' over the policy process and be more favourably disposed towards depoliticized forms of authority that make long-term evidence-based decisions.…”
Section: Supplymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another 'supply-side' explanation is derived from the depoliticization literature (e.g. Hay 2007;Flinders and Buller 2006;Wood and Flinders 2014;Fawcett et al 2017). In this view, politicians having abrogated their power to experts and arms-length bodies.…”
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confidence: 99%