Indeed, the concept of "contestability" (market competition) was inserted into the DNA of the National Offender Management Service when it was being created almost a decade ago.
He said he recognised that the civil service has a monopoly on policy-making and that if other parts of the public sector were to be market-tested, policy, too, should be open to contestability.
They will look for new markets and will try to chip away the NHS in the name of "contestability".
That review said that while governments should remain as "market stewards" for "human services", they should also look for ways to increase "competition and contestability".
And while Mr Brown's scepticism about the role of markets in health care hasn't changed, he does not dispute the value of the "contestability" that new providers can offer.Above all, the chancellor, again thinking strategically, is determined not to be labelled any longer, either by Blairites or Cameron-led Tories, as "roadblock Brown".
And, irrespective of its contestability, how have the courts of the European Union exercised "horizontal" review?
So people start being skeptical, and skepticism leads to what I call contestability.
Without diversity and contestability, inaccuracy does not get called out and corrected.
Get with with the new contestability, diversity, global partnership, choose-and-book.
"Theorizing Privacy's Contestability: A Multi-Dimensional Analytic of Privacy". WiP.
