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This chapter draws lessons from legislating for governance for sustainable development in the devolved government of Wales, UK. It sets the context of the Welsh legislation and analyses it as an example of a transformatory approach to bureaucratic governance. It considers the provisions of the Act against the tests of non-domination and a move away from narratives of economic efficiency. The focus of the Act is on behaviours and common goals for public administration, rather than controls and targetry. Its structural expressions are largely reterriorialisation: local collaboration, planning and public engagement. The Act has been critiqued from the perspective of competing narratives of bureaucracy and governance, including for lack of targetry, impact on business and being overly bureaucratic. The implementation of the Act has also been partly constrained by old narratives of economy, representative politics, sectoralism and land use planning. The chapter concludes with examples of other international legislation and the lessons for legislating for change in bureaucratic purpose and practice. |
