Successful Public Policy : Lessons from Australia and New Zealand.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (550 pages)
- Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Series .
- Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Series .
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- 1. On studying policy successes in Australia and New Zealand -- Part I: Policy successes in Australia -- 2. Responding to HIV/AIDS: Mobilisation through partnerships in a public health crisis -- 3. The Higher Education Contribution Scheme: Keeping tertiary education affordable and accessible -- 4. The 53-billion-dollar question: Was Australia's 2009-2010 fiscal stimulus a good thing? -- 5. 'Marvellous Melbourne': Making the world's most liveable city -- 6. The Child Support Scheme: What innovative collaboration can achieve -- 7. The Australian water markets story: Incremental transformation -- 8. National competition policy: Effective stewardship of markets -- 9. The 'perfect storm' of gun control: From policy inertia to world leader -- 10. The Goods and Services Tax (GST): The public value of a contested reform -- 11. Medicare: The making and consolidation of an Australian institution -- 12. Avoiding the Global Financial Crisis in Australia: A policy success? -- 13. Thinking outside the box: Tobacco plain packaging and the demise of smoking -- Part II: Policy successes in New Zealand -- 14. New Zealand's universal no‑fault accident compensation scheme: Embedding community responsibility -- 15. New Zealand's economic turnaround: How public policy innovation catalysed economic growth -- 16. Nuclear-free New Zealand: Contingency, contestation and consensus in public policymaking -- 17. Treaty of Waitangi settlements: Successful symbolic reparation -- 18. The Fiscal Responsibility Act 1994: How a nonbinding policy instrument proved highly powerful -- 19. Early childhood education policy pathways: A learning story -- 20. KiwiSaver: A jewel in the crown of New Zealand's retirement income framework? -- 21. Whānau Ora: An indigenous policy success story.
In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are understudied. We cannot recognise and explain variations in government performance when media, political and academic discourses are saturated with accounts of their shortcomings and failures, but are next to silent on their achievements.