ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1988.tb01049.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Abstract:In the 1970s, both Australia and the United States instituted legal reforms aimed at promoting greater accountability among public servants. Prompted by growing awareness of the need to encourage and protect federal government whistleblowers, Congress enacted whistleblower protection measures in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. Although the notion of open government in Australia has never been extended to include whistleblowing by public servants, probing the issue of whether or not United States whistleblower protection can serve as a reform model in the search for more effective legal mechanisms for ensuring government accountability can provide lessons and insights of value to Australian public administrators. Analysis of the role and impact of the Office of the Special Counsel and the Merit Systems Protection Board as established under the Civil Service Reform Act reveals many difficulties associated with whistleblower protection. Research has substantiated the jurisdictional ambiguities, administrative and procedural deficiencies and lack of sanctioning power which plague this reform effort. Similar deficiencies also impede the protection of parliamentary witnesses in Australia. Evaluation of whistleblower protection leads to the conclusion that reform models in either country for ensuring government accountability must not be judged solely through examination of statutory provisions. There must also be in place strong stabilising factors such as political unity, economic comfort, social discipline, civic virtue and public service ideology in order to achieve the common public service goal of rendering governmental decision‐making more accountable to persons affected by it and open to review by independent decision maker

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1988.tb01050.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1988.tb01051.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Abstract:Conventional accounts of administrative change have relied on an instrumental view of organisations. Based on the notion that administrative arrangements are designed to meet predefined goals, such accounts have been unable to deal adequately with the production of organisational arrangements or to analyse the entanglements of theory in those arrangements. A number of revisions to this orthodox view have been suggested which are based on viewing administrative structures as political arenas within which conflicts organised within wider society come to the fore. The adoption of a regional administrative structure by the New South Wales Department of Youth and Community Services highlights the dependence that administrative arrangements have upon the interests and ideas of key administrative actors and coalitions, and their contingent power to produce and maintain changes in those arrangements. The regional structure was based on ideas of community participation and had the avowed aim of allowing the public to have greater access to departmental affairs. Subsequently, ideas of ministerial accountability and organisational efficiency were used to define strictly the legitimate boundaries of that public participation. Such ideas provided covering fire for different groups in and around the department to obtain and consolidate positions of advantage.

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1988.tb01052.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1988.tb01053.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1988.tb01054.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1988.tb01055.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1988.tb01056.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1988.tb01057.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1988.tb01058.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY