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A Politics of InevitabilityFacts and values in policy-making

A Politics of Inevitability: Facts and values in policy-making [Despite the controversy one could expect with a partial privatisation of water supply and sewage services, particularly in a ‘left-ish’ city like Berlin, the BWB privatisation was presented by the government as commonsensical and its implementation was, according to interviewees, relatively straightforward. Given the debates over the effects of privatisation and the controversy it has provoked, the presentation of privatisation as a panacea by governments is misleading. It is, then, necessary to move the analysis of the BWB partial privatisation beyond the claims made by policy-makers and focus on the actualities of making policies. Policies such as privatisation are not neutral and cannot be objectively ‘good’. They have to be constructed as such. A full understanding of policy-making and a shift to privatisation can only be achieved through an appreciation of the way in which normative and theoretical assumptions inform the making of facts in policy processes.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Politics of InevitabilityFacts and values in policy-making

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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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© VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2012
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978-3-531-18219-3
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53 –70
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10.1007/978-3-531-94056-4_3
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Abstract

[Despite the controversy one could expect with a partial privatisation of water supply and sewage services, particularly in a ‘left-ish’ city like Berlin, the BWB privatisation was presented by the government as commonsensical and its implementation was, according to interviewees, relatively straightforward. Given the debates over the effects of privatisation and the controversy it has provoked, the presentation of privatisation as a panacea by governments is misleading. It is, then, necessary to move the analysis of the BWB partial privatisation beyond the claims made by policy-makers and focus on the actualities of making policies. Policies such as privatisation are not neutral and cannot be objectively ‘good’. They have to be constructed as such. A full understanding of policy-making and a shift to privatisation can only be achieved through an appreciation of the way in which normative and theoretical assumptions inform the making of facts in policy processes.]

Published: Oct 4, 2011

Keywords: Political System; Policy Proposal; Governmental Practice; Policy Analyst; Representative Democracy

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