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Abstract:The adoption of the discourse of management by Australian public services in the 1980s can be seen as a cultural revolution. Results‐oriented management, subordinated to economic considerations, is the dominant approach. The upper levels of the public services have been remodelled in the form of a technically‐oriented elite recruited on merit, defined in terms of higher education credentials, drawing a technical intelligentsia, or “new class”, into public employment. Although “people and process” approaches, espoused in particular by women, find a place in the new culture, they are subordinated to the demands of scientific management. While the technical intelligentsia is resistant to traditional forms of bureaucratic authority and open to rational debate and new ideas, its members are not well equipped to take account of the substantive concerns of public policy and service provision. The distinctiveness of public management is submerged by inappropriate private sector models, and issues tend to be reduced to economic ones. The paradox that this culture has risen to prominence under Labor governments is explored and the developments are placed in the context of contemporary demands placed on the Australian state by priv

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1987.tb02578.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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Abstract:There is an ambivalence in attitudes to public administration as a field of study among both academics and practitioners in Australia. Teachers, researchers, students, public servants seeking training and managers have differing interests and expectations. Disagreements about the field have contributed to the lack of a unified framework of concepts, while the field has fragmented into public administration, public policy and public management, aside from other divisions such as “old” versus “new” public administration. “Education” and “training” have taken diverging paths and academics and practitioners have drifted apart. There needs to be a closer dialogue that can only be based on a generally agreed paradigm for Australian Public Administration as a

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1987.tb02579.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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Abstract:Doctrines of public administration are in ferment. Proponents of the newer public management challenge defenders of the traditional public service. Academic commentators frequently oppose both the newer managerialism and the traditional apolitical professionalism. The net effect is to distort the call for better public management. One useful step out of the mess is backwards—toward a recovery of the fundamentals of democratic political theory, of that original sense of the governing partnership between public servant and politician. In the 1950s, Fritz Morstein Marx called it resourceful public administration. By reviving this older sense of public resources, we tap a fundamental but frequently ignored vein of public administration theory. Through “the other Marx” we rediscover his mentor, John Stuart Mill, from whom we still have much to learn about our greatest administrative resource—our people, both politicians and public servants. Both Marx and Mill give us salutary examples on how to ask the basic questions of principle, which we tend to bypass in our pursuit of pragmatic arran

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1987.tb02580.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1987.tb02581.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1987.tb02582.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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Abstract:This paper examines the Northern Prawn Fishery of Australia as an illustration of the consistent failures of systems of open (“market”?) access to common property goods. The dilemmas of collective action explain both why those occurred and substantially why subsequent regulatory intervention has not succeeded either in its stated objectives. It is argued, unfashionably, that the endemic nature of these collective action dilemmas in the fishery means that in 1987 the regulatory schema proposed by the government (the allocative coercion option?) would have provided superior outcomes to allocations based on self‐regulation by the ind

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1987.tb02583.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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Abstract:Since the inclusion of Aborigines in the Australian social security system, the treatment of Aboriginal polygyny and tribal marriage by the Department of Social Security (DSS) has been a recurring minor issue of departmental, and at times extra‐departmental, debate. This article traces the history of that debate from the early 1960s to the present day. Although the article is primarily historical, there is also some attempt made to analyse both the nature of the administrative processes involved and the types of administrative argument deployed in the debat

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1987.tb02584.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1987.tb02585.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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Book reviewed in this article:MAX FRENKEL,Federal Theory, Canberra, Centre for Research on Federal Financial RelationsKENNETH WILTSHIRE,Planning and Federalism: Australian and Canadian Experience, St. LuciaCHRISTOPHER D. GILBERT,Australian and Canadian Federalism 1967–1984: A Study of Judicial TechniquesMARK BIRRELL (ed.),The Australian States: Towards a RenaissanceIVAN BERINGER, GEORGE CHOMIAK, HAMISH RUSSEL,Corporate Management: The Australian Public Sector, SydneyS.R. MAHESHWARI,The Higher Civil Service in Japan, New Delhi,O.P. DWIVEDI AND NELSON E. PAULIAS (eds), Ethics in Governme

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1987.tb02586.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY