A Politics of Inevitability


Ross. Beveridge
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Dordrecht : : Springer, , 2011.
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1 online resource (228 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Acknowledgements; Contents; List of tables; List of acronyms and abbreviations; 1. Context, themes and strategy; A politics of inevitability; Analysing a politics of inevitability; Outline of the book; 2. Privatisation, globalisation and neo-liberalism: governance in the 1990s; Introduction; The rise of contemporary privatisation; Neo-liberal globalisation and the city; Privatisation in the water sector; Conclusion: re-politicising privatisation; Chapter 3. Facts and values in policy-making; Introduction; The relationships between knowledge, values and policy-making. - A ready-made account of why BWB was partially privatisedA politics in the making account of the background to the BWB privatisation; The global city discourse: translating neo-liberalism in Berlin; Translating the global city policy discourse in the water sector; Proposing the privatisation of BWB, 19971998: a politics of inevitability?; Conclusion: producing a politics of inevitability; 6. From ready-made accounts to a politics in the making account of the privatisation of BWB; Introduction; July 1998October 1999: realising the privatisation project; Ready-made politics 1. - IntroductionSynthesising three literatures; Areas for future research; References; Appendix: list of interviewees. - Moving towards a post-positivist approach to policy studiesConclusion: studying facts and values in policy-making; 4. Governmentality, policy discourse and translation; Introduction; Governmentality; Political rationalities, political programmes and technologies of government; Adapting the approach to analyse policy-making; From discourse to political agency: ANT and translation; Actor-network theory and policy analysis?; Conclusion: summarising the analytical approach; 5. The global city policy discourse and water policy-making: making the privatisation of BWB 'inevitable'; Introduction. - Ready-made politics 2A politics in the making account; Resistance to the management of the process; The negotiations with the private sector companies; RWE/ Vivendi/ Allianz win the bidding process; Revising the Partial Privatisation Law: the legal challenge and the confidential privatisation contracts (June - October 1999); BWB post-privatisation; Conclusion: assessing the accounts of the privatisation process; 7. Assessing the BWB partial privatisation; Introduction; The partial privatisation of BWB; Experts, contemporary governance and neo-liberalism; 8. Assessing the theoretical approach. - This book provides a detailed analysis of the controversial privatisation of the Berlin Water Company (BWB) in 1999. As with other cases of privatisation around the world, the city's government argued there was no alternative in a context of public debts and economic restructuring. Drawing on post-structuralist theory, the analysis presented here steps outside the parameters of this neat, straightforward explanation. It problematises the 'hard facts' upon which the decision was apparently made, presenting instead an account in which facts can be political constructions shaped by normative assu
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