01544pab a2200181 454500008004000000100001800040245008400058260000900142300001500151362000800166520103200174650001101206650002101217650002601238650002601264700002101290773005101311180718b2012   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aFenwick, John  aPublic participation and public service modernization: Learning from new labor?  c2012  ap.367-378.  aMay  aThe public participation agenda is a significant element of public service reform in Europe and beyond. This article examines how citizen participation in local public services was conce ived and enacted under successive New Labor governments in the UK during the period 1997ﾖ2010. It is suggested that the emphasis on public participation was central to the ethos of New Labor. This accounts for the persistence of the participation agenda even in the face of scant empirical evidence that specific engagement and empowerment initiatives were successful. Significantly, there was no single New Labor participation narrative. There were instead several distinct strands, drawing variously from the Party's received traditions of State welfarism, corporatist central-local relations, municipal socialism, Blairite managerialism, and, lastly, mutual cooperativism. The article assesses the legacy of New Labor and public participation in the UK before drawing wider conclusions relating to international experience. - Reproduce  aLabour  aLocal government  aAdministrative reform  aWorkers participation  aMcMillan, Janice  aInternational Journal of Public Administration