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The area of public policy and governance was traditionally one in which the role of the State and formal institutions of government were central. Since the rise of neoliberalism in the 1980s the traditional role of government has come into question and the State has had many of its’ functions rolled back. The private sector has increasingly been brought in to carry out the provisioning of services (e.g., via public private partnerships, contracting-out), and the managerialism of the private sector has been seen as ‘the way’ to make decisions and take control of institutional practice.
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