New Accountabilities, New Challenges.
Wanna, John.
New Accountabilities, New Challenges. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (458 pages)
Preliminary pages -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Foreword -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction - Embracing New Accountabilities, Confronting New Challenges -- Part I. Systemic Accountabilities -- 2. Restoring Trust in Government -- 3. Parliamentary Scrutiny of the Australian Public Service -- 4. Assessing Access to Information in Australia -- 5. Through a Glass Darkly: The vicissitudes of budgetary reform in Australia -- 6. Constrained Parliamentarism: Australia and New Zealand compared -- Part II. Policy Processes -- 7. Is Implementation Only About Policy Execution? -- 8. National Competition Policy and Cooperative Federalism -- 9. The Malfunctions of New Public Management -- 10. Australian Sub-National Compacts with the Not-For-Profit Sector -- 11. Championing Change in a Highly Contested Policy Area -- 12. Cross-Jurisdictional Performance Audits.
This important and challenging volume of essays draws on insights from leading academics and public servants from around the world. It provides an excellent series of critiques of both the systemic accountabilities and the policy processes of government by drawing on meticulously researched, topical and real-world case studies of governance.
9781925022087
Government accountability.
Politics, Practical.
Public administration.
Electronic books.
JF1525.A26 -- .N49 2015eb
352.35
New Accountabilities, New Challenges. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (458 pages)
Preliminary pages -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Foreword -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction - Embracing New Accountabilities, Confronting New Challenges -- Part I. Systemic Accountabilities -- 2. Restoring Trust in Government -- 3. Parliamentary Scrutiny of the Australian Public Service -- 4. Assessing Access to Information in Australia -- 5. Through a Glass Darkly: The vicissitudes of budgetary reform in Australia -- 6. Constrained Parliamentarism: Australia and New Zealand compared -- Part II. Policy Processes -- 7. Is Implementation Only About Policy Execution? -- 8. National Competition Policy and Cooperative Federalism -- 9. The Malfunctions of New Public Management -- 10. Australian Sub-National Compacts with the Not-For-Profit Sector -- 11. Championing Change in a Highly Contested Policy Area -- 12. Cross-Jurisdictional Performance Audits.
This important and challenging volume of essays draws on insights from leading academics and public servants from around the world. It provides an excellent series of critiques of both the systemic accountabilities and the policy processes of government by drawing on meticulously researched, topical and real-world case studies of governance.
9781925022087
Government accountability.
Politics, Practical.
Public administration.
Electronic books.
JF1525.A26 -- .N49 2015eb
352.35