quangoism

English

Etymology

quango +‎ -ism

Noun

quangoism (uncountable)

  1. The beliefs or attitudes of quangos.
    • 1982, Philip Geddes, In the mouth of the dragon (page 70)
      John Walden, who was charged with monitoring this exercise in quangoism, found that many civil servants disliked this level of consultation.
    • 2002, Brendan Evans, Politics of the Training Market (page 26)
      Whether it was corporatism or merely a limited experiment in quangoism, however, even the Labour government was starting to grow impatient with the MSC's independent autonomy, although such dissatisfaction was never overt.
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