Another is to aim at what the jargon calls "seriously marginalised individuals" through intermediary bodies.
Discussions were held only through intermediary bodies, while Taiwan's democratisation soon intervened.
A former parlementaire himself, Montesquieu argued that the aristocratic courts were "intermediary bodies" whose resistance to royal authority prevented abuses.
Or it may be because there is a paucity of intermediary bodies whose job is to present new evidence to a wider audience.
Mulgan told the Tories about the importance of intermediary bodies which are not part of the state, but which are funded centrally.
Responsibility for many services is shared between Whitehall and local authorities, semi-autonomous schools and various intermediary bodies, ranging from private contractors to local enterprise partnerships.
We need some sort of intermediary bodies which can detect when things aren't going well, look at the data and have their ear very close to the ground to determine when there is a certain issue".
Though Montesquieu had defended intermediary bodies such as guilds as guarantees of civic liberty, thinkers of the Enlightenment attacked them in the name of public utility and of what would later be called the rights of man.
Some say they make sure to pay contractors directly, or work through intermediary bodies in the PA, or talk only to technical staff in the municipalities, all to avoid dealing with the elected councillors.
To strengthen his control over the population, Charlemagne attempted to develop intermediary bodies; he tried to use both vassalage and immunity as means of government in the first instance by creating royal vassals and giving them public offices and in the second by controlling protected institutions such as monasteries and the Jewish community.
