Australian Local Government
Australian Local Government

Author: Brian Dollery

Publisher: Macmillan Education AU

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780732929046

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The last few years have seen unprecedented change taking place in the Australian local government arena. In all states the functions and responsibilities of local authorities have been subjected to extensive reform. New legislation has redefined the role of councillors. Local governments have been required to introduce more efficient and effective management practices and become more open and responsive to their constituencies. The scope of traditional regulatory practices has been altered and councils forced to develop a competitive environment for the provision of services. The place of local authorities in the intergovernmental landscape has also changed. Different forms of interaction between Commonwealth, state and local government are evolving along with the emergence of new funding strategies to encourage a regional focus. This is the first book to offer a detailed discussion of the reforms that have taken place, and at the same time provide an informative and readable analysis for practitioners and students of government, politics and public sector management.

Divided we Fall: An Insider’s Perspective on Local Government Amalgamations
Divided we Fall: An Insider’s Perspective on Local Government Amalgamations

Author: Dr Ian Tiley

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1479738972

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Recent Australian local government structural reform has manifested as council amalgamations and predominantly as imposed merger processes. This book examines council amalgamations across Australia over the past two decades and uncovers the case of council amalgamation in the NSW Clarence Valley Council (CVC) since 2004. The case of forced amalgamation of four general-purpose and two county councils could have been a recipe for chaos; instead this book describes the gains and the challenges. Writing from deep seated knowledge of local government this book details the net positive economic outcomes and financial benefits against measurable indicators and describes the impacts on local democracy. Based on detailed research, this long term local government ‘insider’ perspective will be of value to all those interested in driving change through local government reform.

Henry George's Legacy in Economic Thought
Henry George's Legacy in Economic Thought

Author: John Laurent

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781781958988

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Henry George's "Legacy in Economic Thought" will appeal in particular to upper level students and scholars of the history of economic thought and the public sector but also to economists more widely.

Quarterly Essay 15 Latham's World
Quarterly Essay 15 Latham's World

Author: Margaret Simons

Publisher: Black Inc.

Published: 2004-09-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1921825146

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In the third Quarterly Essay of 2004, Margaret Simons takes a long hard look at Mark Latham, the self-proclaimed "club buster" and the man who would be prime minister. Few doubt Latham's intelligence and ambition, but what will this amount to in government? Simons argues that if Labor is elected, it will not be "business as usual". Rather we can expect a reformist government in the spirit - if not the letter - of Latham's political tutor, Gough Whitlam. It is also likely to be a government that has little time for the totemic issues of the Labor elites. This is an essay that takes the political pulse of the nation - it is clear-eyed, probing, anchored in observation and an original analysis of the political state of play. It ventures into the murky world of Liverpool Council, where Latham made enemies and ran the show. It reserves harsh words for those in the media who have ignored Latham's ideas and community campaigning in favour of rumour-mongering. Above all, it reveals Latham as a conviction politician and an acute thinker, with a prescient understanding of how the urban fringe now drives the politics of the nation. "Mark Latham's arrival on the political scene has brought to an end the fictions that have dominated politics for the last ten years." —Margaret Simons, Latham's World

Local Government at the Millenium
Local Government at the Millenium

Author: Janice Caulfield

Publisher: Urban and Regional Research International

Published: 2002-01-31

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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This volume with contributions by internationally renowned authors provides a comparative survey of problems in local politics and administration in Europe, Australasia and North-America.

Comparative Electoral Management
Comparative Electoral Management

Author: Toby S. James

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-04

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1134820984

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This book offers the first comparative monograph on the management of elections. The book defines electoral management as a new, inter-disciplinary area and advances a realist sociological approach to study it. A series of new, original frameworks are introduced, including the PROSeS framework, which can be used by academics and practitioners around the world to evaluate electoral management quality. A networked governance approach is also introduced to understand the full range of collaborative actors involved in delivering elections, including civil society and the international community. Finally, the book evaluates some of the policy instruments used to improve the integrity of elections, including voter registration reform, training and the funding of elections. Extensive mixed methods are used throughout including thematic analysis of interviews, (auto-)ethnography, comparative historical analysis and, cross-national and national surveys of electoral officials. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners interested and involved in electoral integrity and elections, and more broadly to comparative politics, public administration, international relations and democracy studies. Chapters 1 and 4 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Australian Local Government Economics
Australian Local Government Economics

Author: Brian Dollery

Publisher: UNSW Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780868407517

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The increasing complexities of Australian local government place onerous demands on municipal managers and oblige them to continually upgrade their skills. This book examines the economic environment of contemporary local governance.

Contemporary Trends in Local Governance
Contemporary Trends in Local Governance

Author: Carlos Nunes Silva

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-10-07

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 3030525163

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This book addresses and explores recent trends in the field of local and urban governance. It focuses on three domains: institutional reforms in local government; inter-municipal cooperation; and citizen participation in local governance. In the last decades, in different regions of the world, there is ample evidence that sub-national government, in particular the field of local governance, is in a permanent state of change and reflux, although with differences that reflect national particularities. Since these institutional changes have an impact in the local policy process, in the delivery of public services, in the local democracy, and in the quality of life, it is mandatory to monitor these continued institutional changes, to learn and develop with these changes, if possible before these experiences are transferred and replicated in other countries. The editor and contributors address issues of interest for a wide audience, comprising of students and researchers in various disciplines, and policy makers at both national and sub-national tiers of government.

Land of Discontent
Land of Discontent

Author: Bill Pritchard

Publisher: UNSW Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780868405780

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This text examines the recent changes to the economic, social and cultural landscapes of regional and rural Australia. Issues it considers include the delivery of government services; the closure of bank branches in rural areas; and the restructuring of rural industries.

Local Government in Australia
Local Government in Australia

Author: Bligh Grant

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-03-06

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9811038678

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This book offers a general introduction to and analysis of the history, theory and public policy of Australian local government systems. Conceived in an international comparative context and primarily from within the discipline of political studies, it also incorporates elements of economics and public administration. Existing research tends to conceptualise Australian local government as an element of public policy grounded in an 'administrative science' approach. A feature of this approach is that generally normative considerations form only a latent element of the discussions, which is invariably anchored in debates about institutional design rather than the normative defensibility of local government. The book addresses this point by providing an account of the terrain of theoretical debate alongside salient themes in public policy.