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Abstract:Resource scarcity and social and economic complexity have prompted a growing focus by governments on coordination. New roles for central agencies in Australian State and Federal governments have emerged. An evaluation of these functions is undertaken, starting from the distinction drawn by Leon Peres between “principle” and “interest” as forces in the machinery of government. It is argued that this distinction has deficiencies for the purpose of determining central agency functions, and that the focus should be on procedural values or “rules of the game” that these agencies promote and defend. Added to the procedural values of efficiency, economy and propriety there is now a growing focus on the “coordination principle”. That principle, which central agencies should promote, concerns processes of conflict management in the policy process within the context of general purpose rather than sectorally fragmented policy‐making. Policy coordination as an objective, associated with central planning and hierarchical control, is rejected in favour of this view of central agency involvement in a multi‐organizational governmental setting. The role of cabinet is stressed, with the caveat that cabinet processes do not always entail coordination processes. In conclusion, there is a warning about the growing power of central agencies and concomitant temptations for them to interfere constantly in sectoral or departmental detail, possibly to the detriment of the coo

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1981.tb00519.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:Environmental planning legislation in Australia has been primarily concerned with the formulation of detailed land‐use allocation plans. Changing circumstances are leading to a more broadly‐based view of the planning process centred around the delineation of development principles and the broad structure of land uses. The United Kingdom's experience with structure plans during the past decade is of value in reshaping environmental planning in Australia. Within the United Kingdom both the slow speed of structure plan preparation and its very broad scope have posed problems. By merging land‐use issues with the development plans of other government instrumentalities structure plans have exceeded the responsibility of the central planning agency. Simultaneously they have been seized upon by the public as the only formal means of dissent against governmental decisions in such areas as social service and housing. Reactions have been twofold. In Scotland regional reports have imposed an additional corporate plan which provides guidelines for subsequent control of land use. In England and Wales structure plans have become increasingly general, long‐term and land‐use orientated, thereby side‐stepping the problems their introduction created. To be effective in Australia, structure plans must achieve corporate liaison with other government departments and statutory undertakings. This will be achieved not by copying the English structure planning model, but by working towards regional reports prepared by a combination of State government agencies and reconciled through decisions at parliamentary level. Local, detailed land‐use plans, based upon written reports as in the United Kingdom, can fit readily into such a framework, supplemented where necessary by State‐wide guidelines pertaining to critical land‐use considerations. The coordination of development will be facilitated by the liberalization and increased availability of professionally recogniz

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1981.tb00520.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:The Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration reported evidence of widespread morale problems among government scientists. A major contributing cause was seen as the environment under which science is conducted within a departmental structure. One solution which has been advocated by many scientists, although rejected by the RCAGA, is to transfer government scientific laboratories into statutory authorities.

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1981.tb00521.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1981.tb00522.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1981.tb00523.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1981.tb00524.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1981.tb00525.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1981.tb00526.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

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The period under review in this chronicle—December 1980 to mid‐August 1981—was, like 1980, characterized by relative political and administrative stability and consolidation. Such a climate of stability was, of course, to be expected as the system instituted with self‐government was newly established and refined. Moreover, most of the election pledges which involved significant administrative implications had been implemented in the first months of the Third Assembly. If any major alteration to administrative structure or process is to occur (and there is no present indication of such intention by the government), it is likely to take place after the budget session in

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1981.tb00527.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1981.tb00528.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY