Two Logics of Indirect Governance: Delegation and Orchestration

Most governance is indirect, carried out through intermediaries. Governors do not govern targets directly, but bring in third parties to increase efficiency, effectiveness or legitimacy. Sometimes these third parties are internal to the governor, as in the case of government bureaucracies, but often they are external, operating at some distance from the governor. It has become common to treat indirect governance as a process of delegation to be...