Best Value and the politics of pragmatism
By: MAILE, Stella
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Contributor(s): HOGGETT, Paul.
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ArticlePublisher: 2001Policy & Politic 29, 4, p. 509-519Abstract: This article and highlights critical themes emerging from the contributions to this Best Value section: that Best Value possesses subtle, and not so subtle, political, organisational, strategic and governmental dimensions. Drawing on these themes we develop our own argument that, during Blair`s first term, Best Value was presented as a potentially enlightened `user-friendly`tool for the expression of diverse social and organisational interests. Increasingly, it is emerging as yet another of a long line of retrograde managerial techiques. The pragmatism of Best Value is becoming more overtly bound up with government centralisation, support for neoliberalism and the private finance initiative
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This article and highlights critical themes emerging from the contributions to this Best Value section: that Best Value possesses subtle, and not so subtle, political, organisational, strategic and governmental dimensions. Drawing on these themes we develop our own argument that, during Blair`s first term, Best Value was presented as a potentially enlightened `user-friendly`tool for the expression of diverse social and organisational interests. Increasingly, it is emerging as yet another of a long line of retrograde managerial techiques. The pragmatism of Best Value is becoming more overtly bound up with government centralisation, support for neoliberalism and the private finance initiative
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