PERFORMANCE REVIEW AND BEST VALUE: EMERGENCES FROM THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW SYSTEM

Year 2007, Volume: 7 Issue: 27, 209 - 216, 10.01.2007

Yüksel Demirkaya

https://doi.org/10.14783/maruoneri.686892

Abstract

This article examines New Labour’s Best Value Management Framework as applied in England and focuses on the new regime’s review system (this article intends to evaluate Best Value Management Framework and its review system in England instead examining it in UK, because of the necessity to focus on a particular approach to Best Value review system). Best Value is considered to be one of the main components of New Labour’s modernisation strategy for public Services. It is a challenging initiative in that it requires local authorities to undertake some fundamental cultural and organisational changes. In this context, it can be argued that Best Value is one of the latest stages in local government service modernisation from which others can learn

Keywords

Performance Review, English Local Government, Competition, Consultation

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