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The University of Canberra
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Policy and Administration | Australian Government And Politics | Public Administration | Applied Ethics | Law And Society | Criminology | Comparative Government And Politics | Public Administration | Comparative Government and Politics | Organisational Planning And Management | Applied Ethics (Incl. Bioethics And Environmental Ethics) | Criminology | Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology | Corporations And Associations Law
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Public services management | Justice and the law not elsewhere classified | Federalism in Australia | Religion and ethics not elsewhere | Government and politics not elsewhere classified | Electronic Information Storage and Retrieval Services | Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis |
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Publications
Leadership and the Senior Service from a Comparative Perspective
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2007
Regeneration in an International Context
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2005
Tradition and Public Administration
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2010
Beyond COVID‐19: Five commentaries on expert knowledge, executive action, and accountability in governance and public administration
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2020
DOI: 10.1111/CAPA.12386
Reforming Public Management and Governance
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 18-05-2020
Public Management Reform
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Date: 25-08-2022
Crossing Boundaries in Public Management and Policy
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-07-2013
Career Public Service and Administrative Reform in Australia
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 1991
The styles of civil service systems
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 28-01-2021
The role and significance of context in comparing country systems
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-10-2013
Capacity, complexity and public sector reform in Australia
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 2014
Anglophone Systems
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date: 2015
Coordination of Welfare Through a Large Integrated Organization: The Australian department of human services
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-04-2015
Performance and Performance Management
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2006
Western European Civil Service Systems. A Comparative Analysis
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2007
Cancer Australia's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
The evolution of Public Service Bargains of Australian senior public servants
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2013
Abstract: The agreements between the Australian senior public service and the political executive have undergone several shifts during the reform era of the last thirty years. These have involved fundamental redefinitions of the role, responsibilities, identity and autonomy of the senior public servant.There has been a succession of challenges to the relationship focusing on the role and status of the public service on the one hand and the behaviour and resources of the political executive on the other. Over time the trend has been towards strengthening the political executive, but punctuated by debates about issues that slowed the rate of change and contained political pressures on the public service. This process has produced clarifications of central aspects of the relationship and a clearer articulation of the range of roles provided by departmental secretaries. The article examines the evolution of public service bargains centred on the changing roles of the secretaries of departments of state, and analyses the implications of the changing relationship for the role and functioning of the public service in governance and public policy. Points for practitioners The article addresses how the roles of departmental secretaries in Australia have varied in significance during the reform era. A new arrangement has now emerged which clearly articulates the roles and codifies them. One of the roles, stewardship, recognizes that secretaries have a part to play independently of ministers.
The Centrelink Experiment: Innovation in Service Delivery
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 12-2008
DOI: 10.22459/CE.12.2008
Women’s Participation in New Zealand Local Body Elections
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1977
PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM: EXPLORING THE VICTORIAN EXPERIENCE*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-1985
Toward Participatory and Transparent Governance: Report on the Sixth Global Forum on Reinventing Government:
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2005
Political Management in the Australian States
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2001
Political and Managerial Reform in a Small State: The Relevance of the 1980s
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-12-2018
Performance Management in the Public Sector
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-06-2010
Public Sector Governance in Australia
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 07-2012
Changing patterns of government in Australian metropolitan areas
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-1987
Security, Capacity and Post‐Market Reforms: Public Management Change in 2003
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2004
Does performance measurement improve public sector performance? A case of Australian government agencies
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-05-2021
Abstract: The paper investigates whether performance measurement drives performance improvement in Australian government agencies. Because the answer to such a question is rarely unconditional, contextual factors such as jurisdiction and type of organisation are considered. The paper uses documents such as budgets and annual reports of nine government agencies in three Australian jurisdictions to analyse how results against targets influence subsequent measured performance. It finds that performance measurement does not drive performance improvement for the agencies studied. The paper also explores two types of mechanism by which performance measurement might improve performance in Australian government agencies. One mechanism is that setting targets focuses effort leading to improved performance. A second mechanism assumes that policy intent plus resources leads to good performance measures, which produces better information and decisions and hence higher performance. No discernible impacts of these mechanisms on performance improvements in these agencies were observed. A systems‐based approach to understanding the forces acting on managers and organisations showed that the mechanisms described above were less effective than countervailing influences that tended to derogate from the use of performance measurement.
THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTION IN NEW SOUTH WALES LOCAL GOVERNMENT: STATUTORY PRESCRIPTION AND ADMINISTRATIVE BEHAVIOUR
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-1980
Advocacy and Innovation in Interagency Management: The Case of Centrelink
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2007
Governance in a hybrid system: designing and institutionalising the Australian Capital Territory
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Advising Governments in the Westminster Tradition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 05-11-2020
Abstract: In turbulent environments and unstable political contexts, policy advisory systems have become more volatile. The policy advisory system in Anglophone countries is composed of different types of advisers who have input into government decision making. Government choices about who advises them varies widely as they demand contestability, greater partisan input and more external consultation. The professional advice of the public service may be disregarded. The consequences for public policy are immense depending on whether a plurality of advice works effectively or is derailed by narrow and partisan agendas that lack an evidence base and implementation plans. The book seeks to addresses these issues within a comparative country analysis of how policy advisory systems are constituted and how they operate in the age of instability in governance and major challenges with how the complexity policy issue can be handled.
Knowing the past for a better future: an introduction to the special issue on Centenary Canberra
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Reintegrating Government in Third Generation Reforms of Australia and New Zealand
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2007
Abstract: Public sector reform has persisted for a sufficient length of time in several countries to examine patterns over the longer term. Australia and New Zealand are both early and long-term reforming countries that display distinctive features as well as being Anglophone countries identified with new public management. As third generation reformers, the products of more than two decades of reform activity are becoming clearer: the starker manifestations of new public management have less prominence now and a set of distinctive trends has emerged with commonalities across the two countries. The synthesis of elements in the third generation suggests that system integration and performance are central to the prevailing approach and that an emergent model is best represented in the mid-2000s as integrating governance. The article explores the constituent elements and significance of the new model and its relationship to earlier models.
Career Public Service and Administrative Reform in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-1991
Assessing 30 years of Westminster policy advisory system experience
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-07-2016
On the road to performance governance in the public domain?
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 09-03-2012
DOI: 10.1108/17410401211205623
Abstract: This article seeks to assess how performance management in the public domain has evolved over the last several years both in terms of theory and practice in selected countries. The paper also aims to act as the editorial for the special issue of the journal. Drawing on Bouckaert and Halligan as a framework for analysing performance management in the public sector, this paper reviews findings from their work (on the evolution of cases from six countries), a recent survey of seven countries from four continents, and three additional case studies at the micro, meso and macro levels of analysis. The article finds that the evidence for progress towards a “performance governance” regime in the public domain is mixed, with little progress in countries outside the Anglo‐American or Nordic ex les studied by Bouckaert and Halligan. Several reasons for this are suggested from the recent survey (in this issue), including the impact of public sector values and the role of elites. However, case studies of particular sectors in countries with limited progress on performance management in general (Portugal and Ireland) suggest that significant inroads can nevertheless be made along the trajectory proposed by Bouckaert and Halligan at micro and meso levels. The paper draws together evidence from various ex les of performance management in the public domain to critically assess and extend existing theory and to suggest alternative trajectories on the road to performance governance.
SagerFritz, ChristianRosser, CélineMavrot, Pascal Y.Hurni (2018). A transatlantic history of public administration. Analysing the United States, Germany, and France. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2020
The quasi‐autonomous agency in an ambiguous environment: the Centrelink case
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-04-2004
DOI: 10.1002/PAD.320
Conflict and Consensus in Committees of the Australian Parliament
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 23-09-2015
DOI: 10.1093/PA/GSV044
Public administration in theAustralian Journal of Political Science: A review
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2015
Chapter 10: Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Australia
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 29-03-2018
Politicization of Public Services in Comparative Perspective
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 22-01-2021
DOI: 10.1093/ACREFORE/9780190228637.013.1372
Abstract: The politicization of public services has been a relentless trend in public administration internationally. It can be attributed to the increasing demands on executive government, heightened partisanship and polarization, higher expectations about achieving official goals, and contextual factors that dilute the neutrality of the bureaucracy. It is also apparent that the spread of politicization has increased (i.e., encompassing countries once thought to be low on politicization) as has its breadth and depth (often extending down the bureaucracy and affecting a wide range of public servants). Within this broader trend, the timing and pace of politicization has varied widely among countries, some having long histories (several of the classic models of the “political civil servant”) and others being newcomers. Politicization takes a number of forms, most of which focus on political control and influence. Often there is a dominant instrument, such as relying on politically committed appointees, but multiple levers apply in many cases. A remarkable range of approaches has evolved to address political control. The rationale for particular types is generally shaped by an administrative tradition and reflects country contexts and circumstances. A strong case exists for partisan support to enhance the capacity of political executives, to counterbalance the vested interests of bureaucrats, to facilitate coalition government, and to ensure support at the top for government objectives and priorities. However, politicization can be arbitrary, chaotic, r ant, and overly focused on partisan and in idual interests.
You win some, you lose some: Experiments with joined-up government
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-03-2011
Constituting the Cooperative State: Strategies for Collaborative Decentralisation within Unitary States
Publisher: de Gruyter Recht
Date: 31-03-2023
NPM in Anglo-Saxon Countries
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 23-03-2016
Review Article: New Zealand Politics
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-1976
Public Management and Departments: Contemporary Themes - Future Agendas
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2005
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Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0348470
Start Date: 07-2003
End Date: 08-2008
Amount: $290,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivitySpecial Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354528
Start Date: 12-2003
End Date: 12-2004
Amount: $10,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityResearch Networks - Grant ID: RN0460293
Start Date: 06-2004
End Date: 12-2009
Amount: $1,500,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0776807
Start Date: 04-2008
End Date: 04-2011
Amount: $236,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170101997
Start Date: 02-2017
End Date: 12-2022
Amount: $299,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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