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dc.contributor.authorConnor, Stuart
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-22T09:39:56Z
dc.date.available2017-12-22T09:39:56Z
dc.date.issued2017-12-20
dc.identifier.citationConnor, S. (2017) European Journal of Futures Research 5: 19. DOI: 10.1007/s40309-017-0124-6
dc.identifier.issn2195-4194
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s40309-017-0124-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/621015
dc.descriptionThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in the European Journal of Futures Research. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40309-017-0124-6
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this paper is to review the rationale, nature and operation of independent fiscal councils (IFCs) in order to gain insights into how futures are being configured at executive levels of government and to examine how futures could be incorporated in policy making. The emphasis IFCs have placed on non-partisanship, transparency and forecasting is viewed as reflecting a particular understanding of the problem of public debt and a limited understanding of the future and policy making. Located within the context of increasing technocratic tendencies, it is argued that IFCs can be seen as part of efforts to secure the de-politicisation of policy making. Attempts to secure the de-politicisation of policy making may at best, be considered laudable, but naïve, and at worst, represents an ideological sleight of hand in attempts to colonise the future. Moving forward, it is argued that strategic foresight can make a vital contribution to an open form of policy making that deepens and extends an understanding of what the future could be - the necessary ficta of policy making.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.urlhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40309-017-0124-6
dc.subjectTechnocracy
dc.subjectnon-partisanship
dc.subjectforecasts
dc.subjectde-politicisation
dc.titleAn examination of independent fiscal councils and their orientation to the future and policy making
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalEuropean Journal of Futures Research
dc.identifier.articlenumber19
dc.date.accepted2017-12-05
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhampton
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUoW221217SC
rioxxterms.versionVoR
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2017-12-22
dc.source.volume5
refterms.dateFCD2018-10-19T09:01:27Z
refterms.versionFCDVoR
refterms.dateFOA2017-12-20T00:00:00Z
html.description.abstractThe aim of this paper is to review the rationale, nature and operation of independent fiscal councils (IFCs) in order to gain insights into how futures are being configured at executive levels of government and to examine how futures could be incorporated in policy making. The emphasis IFCs have placed on non-partisanship, transparency and forecasting is viewed as reflecting a particular understanding of the problem of public debt and a limited understanding of the future and policy making. Located within the context of increasing technocratic tendencies, it is argued that IFCs can be seen as part of efforts to secure the de-politicisation of policy making. Attempts to secure the de-politicisation of policy making may at best, be considered laudable, but naïve, and at worst, represents an ideological sleight of hand in attempts to colonise the future. Moving forward, it is argued that strategic foresight can make a vital contribution to an open form of policy making that deepens and extends an understanding of what the future could be - the necessary ficta of policy making.


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