A Prehistory of the Best Value Regime

Entwistle, Thomas Walter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6457-4749 and Laffin, Martin 2005. A Prehistory of the Best Value Regime. Local Government Studies 31 (2) , pp. 205-218. 10.1080/03003930500032106

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Abstract

Best Value was one of the central planks of New Labour's modernisation agenda for local government. This article uncovers the origins of the regime by unpicking the activities of two working groups responsible for its design. Licking its wounds in the aftermath of the 1987 General Election the Labour Party's leadership had come to see the party's record in local government as a source of increasing embarrassment. A series of policy initiatives, first emerging from the party's policy review, later given the Best Value tag, were intended to neutralise producer interests and improve the party's reputation for governing competence.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	0300-3930
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 09:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/38437

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