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.