01544pab a2200169 454500 180718b2007 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Davies, Cella Grounding governance in dialogue? Discourse, practice and the potential for a new public sector organizational form in Britain 2007 p.47-66. Drawing on debates about the nature and significance of quasi-autonomous government organizations, this article asks what happens when trends towards agency creation by government and trends towards stakeholder participation in policy processes come together. Issues are considered through an examination of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, one of a series of new regulatory bodies set up in Britain after 1997 and given the task of providing national guidance on treatments and care for people using the health service. The analysis points to the emergence of a new form - the dialogic intermediary organization. Such an organization, while maintaining close and informal links with government, attempts to build legitimacy for its activities through multiple and potentially competing engagements with diversely constituted publics. The potential theoretical and political importance of dialogic intermediary organizations, and some implications for their fuller empirical study are briefly explored. - Reproduced. Administrative reform - Great Britain Administrative reform Public Administration N 74671 74671 74671 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 85, Issue no: 1 AR75131 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR