A British political and administrative term for the process of transferring government functions to quangos — quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations that are publicly funded but operate independently of direct ministerial control. Quangoization is typically discussed critically, implying a dilution of democratic accountability or an expansion of bureaucracy at arm's length from elected officials. The term became particularly prominent in UK political discourse from the 1970s onward as the number of quangos expanded rapidly.
Critics argued that quangoization had created an entire layer of governance that nobody had voted for and nobody could easily remove.
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(UK) The process of introducing quangos.
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