Unravelling the Covid state: From parliamentary democracy to the regulatory state?
Dr Jim McConalogue, December 2021
Britain’s ‘Plan B’ responses to Covid-19 marked the emergence of a new phase in the growth of ‘the regulatory state’ – this Civitas report suggests – in which, crucial decision-making is outsourced to leading quangos.
In this report, Dr Jim McConalogue finds that: ‘Future reforms need to recognise that the Covid-19 government decision-making process has appeared to be arbitrary, opaque, inadequately scrutinised and subject to pressure by insulated expertise within central state committees and quangos, beyond regular means of democratic accountability.’
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