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Two narratives arguably dominate current accounts of the changing nature of state authority: those emphasising network governance and metagovernance. After examining these narratives, this chapter defends decentred theory, a narrative of the stateless state (Bevir and Rhodes, 2010) and the related possibility of a democratic turn in the governance literature.1 The general aim is to promote democratic innovations by challenging implicit reifications of the state and consequently the technocratic expertise that these reifications legitimate.
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Bevir, M. (2014). Decentering Governance: A Democratic Turn?. In: Isakhan, B., Slaughter, S. (eds) Democracy and Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137326041_2
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