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100 _aFenwick, John
245 _aPublic participation and public service modernization: Learning from new labor?
260 _c2012
300 _ap.367-378.
362 _aMay
520 _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 1997οΎ–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
650 _aLabour
650 _aLocal government
650 _aAdministrative reform
650 _aWorkers participation
700 _aMcMillan, Janice
773 _aInternational Journal of Public Administration
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