Brown and Despathy: Outsourcing responsibility

Brown and Despathy: Outsourcing responsibility

By Elizabeth Brown and Alison Despathy  In recent years, the Vermont Legislature has increasingly relied on a governance model in which it establishes broad statutory requirements while delegating substantial policy design and implementation authority to appointed (non-elected) boards, commissions, and councils.  Vermont utilizes this model in several key areas, including climate governance, regional planning, and healthcare. These unelected bod…