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The New Public Contracting: Public Versus Private Ordering?, Peter Vincent-Jones
The New Public Contracting: Public Versus Private Ordering?, Peter Vincent-Jones
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article explores the hybrid character of contemporary public service organization with specific reference to the emergence in Britain over the last twenty-five years of a novel mode of governance, the "New Public Contracting." The New Public Contracting governs an ever-expanding range of aspects of modern life through contracting regimes directed at the attainment of particular policy purposes. In Britain, this mode of governance has been problematic in that many contracting regimes have failed to respond adequately to public needs. While the trend toward privatization may be politically irreversible, the role of the state should be to help establish the …
Relational Contract And The Nature Of Private Ordering: A Comment On Vincent-Jones, David Campbell
Relational Contract And The Nature Of Private Ordering: A Comment On Vincent-Jones, David Campbell
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This paper focuses on the enormous growth of contract in the public sector over the last twenty years as part of the development of the "new public management." In the United Kingdom, the most penetrating assessment of the significance of this growth for the law of contract, its theory and its use, is Peter Vincent-Jones's The New Public Contracting, the thrust of which has been the basis of Vincent-Jones's contribution to this issue, The New Public Contracting: Public versus Private Ordering? In this paper, the author examines the welfarism of public sector contracting by means of a comment on Vincent-Jones's …