English

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Etymology

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From quango +‎ -ism.

Noun

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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.