Designing Governance Structures for Performance and Accountability

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• Designing Governance Structures for Performance and Accountability discusses how formal and informal governance structures in Australia, the People's ... Lees meer

The Role of Departmental Secretaries

Andrew Podger

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• Andrew Podger's monograph, The Role of Departmental Secretaries, Personal reflections on the breadth of responsibilities today, is an important contri... Lees meer

The Centrelink Experiment

John Halligan, Jules Wills

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• Centrelink was established in 1997 as part of the Howard government's bold experiment in re-framing social policy and re-shaping service delivery. Cen... Lees meer

Learning Policy, Doing Policy

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• When it comes to policymaking, public servants have traditionally learned 'on the job', with practical experience and tacit knowledge valued over theo... Lees meer

Minding the Gap

Peter Carroll, Rex Deighton-Smith, Helen Silver

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• 'Mind the Gap!' is an almost iconic exhortation, originating in the London Underground, warning travellers to be careful when navigating the 'gap' bet... Lees meer

Electronic Engagement

Peter Chen

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• Over the last twenty years, advanced communication technologies have become pervasive throughout Western society. These technologies have not only rev... Lees meer

Ministerial Careers and Accountability in the Australian Commonwealth Government

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• This book examines the roles, responsibilities and accountabilities of Australian cabinet ministers. It examines the sorts of jobs ministers do, what ... Lees meer

Managing Under Austerity, Delivering Under Pressure

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• Contemporary public managers find themselves under pressure on many fronts. Coming off a sustained period of growth in their funding and some complace... Lees meer

Opening Government

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• Transparency and citizen engagement remain essential to good government and sound public policy. Indeed, they may well be the key to restoring trust i... Lees meer

Whistling While They Work

Peter Roberts, A J Brown, Jane Olsen

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• This guide sets out results from four years of research into how public sector organisations can better fulfil their missions, maintain their integrit... Lees meer

Inside the Canberra Press Gallery

Rob Chalmers

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• Before television, radio, and later the internet came to dominate the coverage of Australian politics, the Canberra Press Gallery existed in a world f... Lees meer

New Accountabilities, New Challenges

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• This important and challenging volume of essays draws on insights from leading academics and public servants from Australia, New Zealand, the United K... Lees meer

Framing the Global Economic Downturn

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• The global economic downturn that followed the collapse of major US financial institutions is no doubt the most significant crisis of our times. Its e... Lees meer

Whistleblowing in the Australian Public Sector

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• Of the many challenges in public sector management, few are as complex as the management of whistleblowing. Because it can lead to the discovery and r... Lees meer

Australia, the European Union and the New Trade Agenda

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• Australia (together with New Zealand) is one of the few Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries with which the EU does... Lees meer

Critical Reflections on Australian Public Policy

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• This collection of 'critical reflections' on Australian public policy offers a valuable contribution to public discussion of important political and p... Lees meer

Competing for Influence

Barry Ferguson

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• Amidst growing dissatisfaction with the state of government performance and an erosion of trust in our political class, Competing for Influence asks: ... Lees meer

Studies in Australian Political Rhetoric

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• This edited collection includes eleven major case studies and one general review of rhetorical contest in Australian politics. The volume showcases th... Lees meer

Social cost-benefit analysis in Australia and New Zealand

Leo Dobes, George Argyrous, Joanne Leung

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• All is not well with the evaluation of government programs and projects. Resources available to any society are limited. If governments are to increas... Lees meer

Re-Visioning Arts and Cultural Policy

Jennifer Craik

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• In this monograph, Jennifer Craik undertakes a critical and historical analysis of the main imperatives of arts and cultural policy in Australia. With... Lees meer

Collaboration for Impact

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• Collaboration is often seen as a palliative for the many wicked problems challenging our communities. These problems affect some of the most vulnerabl... Lees meer

Multi-level Governance

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• Important policy problems rarely fit neatly within existing territorial boundaries. More difficult still, individual governments or government departm... Lees meer

Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• Australia continues to be at the forefront of international work on measuring and promoting wellbeing, Ian Castles being a significant contributor ove... Lees meer

A Passion for Policy

• Paperback | Engels | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (Anzsog)
• This collection of papers is concerned with issues of policy development, practice, implementation and performance. It represents a range of views abo... Lees meer