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Modernizing Governance: New Labour, Policy, and Society
Whatever the political shifts and policy changes that may continue to characterise Labour in government, it is clear that the fate and fortunes of the public sector will be at the centre of its struggle to retain publio legitimacy and continued electoral success. As David Marquand has com- mented, Social democracy and the public realm are inextricably inter- twined' (Guardian, 20 March 2001: 19). The renewal of the public services and the culture that sustains them, will, Marquand suggests, be a crucial part of the process of embedding social democratic norms in the public culture and the structures of the state in order to resist any threat of a resurgence of the right. The public sector is becoming better at evaluating its success in delivering policy goals and objectives. But the success on failure of specific reforms has to be set in the wider programme of political and institutional change with which this book is concerned.
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