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The Politics of Expertise offers a challenging new interpretation
of politics in contemporary Britain, through an examination of
non-governmental organisations. Using specific case studies of the
homelessness, environment, and international aid and development
sectors, it demonstrates how politics and political activism has
changed over the last half century. NGOs have contributed
enormously to a professionalization and a privatization of
politics, emerging as a new form of expert knowledge and political
participation. They have been led by a new breed of non-party
politician, working in collaboration and in competition with
government. Skilful navigators of the modern technocratic state,
they have brought expertise to expertise and, in so doing, have
changed the nature of grassroots activism. As affluent citizens
have felt marginalised by the increasingly complex nature of many
policy solutions, they have made the rational calculation to
support NGOs, the professionalism and resources of which make them
better able to tackle complex problems. Yet in doing so, support
rather than participation becomes the more appropriate way to
describe the relationship of the public to NGOs. As voter turnout
has declined, membership and trust in NGOs has increased. But NGOs
are very different types of organisations from the classic
democratic institutions of political parties and the labour
movement. They maintain different and varied relationships with the
publics they seek to represent. Attracting mass support has
provided them with the resources and the legitimacy to speak to
power on a bewildering range of issues, yet perhaps the ultimate
victors in this new form of politics are the NGOs themselves.
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