The Australian Experience of Public Sector Reform
The Australian Experience of Public Sector Reform

Author: Commonwealth Secretariat

Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780850927061

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Public sector reform has moved on apace since the first of the Commonwealth Public Service Country Profile Series was launched in 1995 when the principles of New Public Management (NPM) were in an early stage of adoption. Since then, the various civil services described in the series have undergone radical change in scope, organization and approach rendering a revision timely. Now up dated and completely revised, these re-issued Country Profiles continue to be an accessible and valuable source of reference which attempt to both describe and analyze the often tumultuous and controversial public sector reforms which have taken place in contributing countries since 1995. Practicing bureaucrats, diplomats, political and academic audiences will find these new books invaluable in benchmarking best practice in public sector reform across Commonwealth member countries.

Perspectives on Australian Local Government Reform
Perspectives on Australian Local Government Reform

Author: Brian Dollery

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9781862879850

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Perspectives on Australian Local Government Reform draws upon the insights and expertise of an extraordinary group of contributors, drawn from practitioners with extensive and exceptional hands-on experience in local government, as well as scholars of Australian local government.

Key Principles of Public Sector Reforms
Key Principles of Public Sector Reforms

Author: Joan Nwasike

Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat

Published: 2018-08-01

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1849291810

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Key Principles of Public Sector Reforms contains case studies from Cameroon, Ghana, Grenada, India, Kenya, Rwanda, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania and Trinidad and Tobago on the policy reforms, strategies and methodologies that support national priorities and greater policy coherence for sustained development and growth.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant
The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant

Author: Helen Sullivan

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 1737

ISBN-13: 9783030299798

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The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant examines what it means to be a public servant in today’s world(s) where globalisation and neoliberalism have proliferated the number of actors who contribute to the public purpose sector and created new spaces that public servants now operate in. It considers how different scholarly approaches can contribute to a better understanding of the identities, motivations, values, roles, skills, positions and futures for the public servant, and how scholarly knowledge can be informed by and translated into value for practice. The book combines academic contributions with those from practitioners so that key lessons may be synthesised and translated into the context of the public servant.

The Australian Experience of Public Sector Reform
The Australian Experience of Public Sector Reform

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780642543752

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"The Profile provides an overview of the Australian government and public administration framework. It describes significant reforms that have influenced public service management since the 1970s, their incorporation into current practices, and developments currently underway. While the principal focus is on the Commonwealth experience, this has been complemented by contributions from state and territory experience related to particular themes or topics." --Preface.

Public Sector Governance in Australia
Public Sector Governance in Australia

Author: Meredith Edwards

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1921862904

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"Provides the first comprehensive theoretical and empirical work on governance in the Commonwealth public sector. It addresses the issues that emerged under the Howard government as well as their handling under the Rudd and Gillard governments." - abstract.

Australia's Metropolitan Imperative
Australia's Metropolitan Imperative

Author: Richard Tomlinson

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2018-07-01

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1486307981

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Since the early 1990s there has been a global trend towards governmental devolution. However, in Australia, alongside deregulation, public–private partnerships and privatisation, there has been increasing centralisation rather than decentralisation of urban governance. Australian state governments are responsible for the planning, management and much of the funding of the cities, but the Commonwealth government has on occasion asserted much the same role. Disjointed policy and funding priorities between levels of government have compromised metropolitan economies, fairness and the environment. Australia’s Metropolitan Imperative: An Agenda for Governance Reform makes the case that metropolitan governments would promote the economic competitiveness of Australia’s cities and enable more effective and democratic planning and management. The contributors explore the global metropolitan ‘renaissance’, document the history of metropolitan debate in Australia and demonstrate metropolitan governance failures. They then discuss the merits of establishing metropolitan governments, including economic, fiscal, transport, land use, housing and environmental benefits. The book will be a useful resource for those engaged in strategic, transport and land use planning, and a core reference for students and academics of urban governance and government.

Constructing the Craft of Public Administration
Constructing the Craft of Public Administration

Author: Christine Shearer

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-11-11

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 3030818969

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This book draws on recent empirical research and reports unique insight into the craft of public administration of the most senior echelons of the Australian Public Service (APS).This work is set in the context of a comparative analysis of the significant public sector reforms by successive governments from the 1980s across Westminster polities. Such reforms and the contemporary management ideas on which they were based, including new managerialism and ‘new public management’ (NPM) travelled, were translated and transformed with some elements accepted and others rejected. This book addresses how the most senior public servants in the APS construct their craft today amid such reforms. Chapter two covers the myriad of public sector reforms across Westminster polities. Chapters three and four cover the environments and contemporary management ideas which influence public administration. Chapters five and six showcase the public actors and the responsibilities they execute when they construct their craft. The final chapter provides a conceptual model of the craft of public administration and provides implications for theory and practice.

Public Sector Reform and Performance Management in Developed Economies
Public Sector Reform and Performance Management in Developed Economies

Author: Zahirul Hoque

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781003004080

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"Over the past two decades, there has been a shift of paradigm in public administration and public sector accounting around the world with the increasing emphasis on outcomes as opposed to inputs and outputs focus. Understanding of how government departments and agencies develop and implement outcomes-based approaches to their services and programs to strengthen public accountability, financial scrutiny and good governance worldwide is limited. Covering a selection of international practices on outcomes-based approaches to government departments, agencies and public higher educational institutions in developed economies, this comprehensive compilation provides an essential reading in the public sector accounting, accountability and performance management field. The contributions are grouped into three jurisdictions: Australasia, UK and Europe, and North America. It incorporates outcomes-based practices in public services from advanced economies and will be of significant interest to global public sector regulators, consultants, researchers, and academic communities as well as academic researchers in public administration and development studies fields. The insights offered by a country-specific practice will also be useful to governments in other countries implementing similar systems and practices and facing similar socio-political environments. This book will also help to gain an understanding of the issues of government accountability from a management point of view as well as from a socio-political point of view"--

The International Handbook of Public Administration and Governance
The International Handbook of Public Administration and Governance

Author: Andrew Massey

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2015-04-30

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 1781954496

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The International Handbook of Public Administration and Governance is a ground-breaking volume with eminent scholars addressing the key questions in relation to how international governments can solve public administration and governance challenges in