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It's sometimes described as the 'good chap' theory of governance. Everyone is expected to be a gentleman, so flexibility is possible with an absence of formal g
by pmyteh 3y ago
It's sometimes described as the 'good chap' theory of governance. Everyone is expected to be a gentleman, so flexibility is possible with an absence of formal guardrails.
It obviously handles capture by bad faith actors fairly poorly; the hope is that such people or movements can be stopped before they get that far. Johnson was pretty marginal as a PM from this point of view.
- sorokod 3y agoThanks, haven't heard of the 'good chap' theory of governance before. Lovely name that emphasizes how inadequate such system is in the 21st century. Or perhaps it was never adequate: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/37844/has-the-good-chaps-theory-of-government-always-been-a-myth https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/37844/has-the-go...