ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1996.tb01176.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1996.tb01177.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1996.tb01178.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

One of the components associated with the widely heralded shift to ‘new managerialism’ in the public sector has been an increased emphasis on coordination between government departments as a means to enhance effective service provision. This article examines the capacity for coordination to fulfil this objective. Drawing upon a case study of coordination in youth affairs in Western Australia, the article examines the process by which the coordination mechanisms become enveloped in the ‘politics of non‐decision‐making’. By this is meant that a set of power relationships create tensions at a number of levels — between commonwealth and state government agencies; between state government agencies and within individual agencies — which act to prevent effective decisions from being taken. The implications of this case study for the capacity of ‘new managerialism’ to produce effective policy outcomes in complex social policy areas is highlighted. Evidence from this study suggests that, in an era of restricted resources and heightened competition within the public sector, agencies are pushed to more clearly defi

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1996.tb01179.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Against claims that public sector reforms have made the functions of managers similar to those in private firms, critics of the managerialist model point to constraints on public sector managers that make their decisions on resource allocation and policy development different from those affecting corporations. Through an examination of policy formulation, program management and decision‐making in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, this article demonstrates that managerialist program planning, outcome orientation and performance measurement have been introduced, but that this has not precluded an expansion in non‐market oriented routine, non‐discretionary decision‐making involving bureaucratic legal rationality within a legislative and regulatory framework. While some clients have been defined and assessed in terms of economic criteria, they access departmental processing not in terms of market signals, but according to their compliance with the Migration Act and Migration Regulations. Managerialism has not occurred at the expense of classical administrative practices, rather managerialist and legal bureaucratic forms have both grown and influenced political calculations on policy

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1996.tb01180.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

A proposal by the Fahey government in late 1994 to amend the NSW state Constitution so as to require ‘balanced’ budgets is one of a number of signs which suggest that the simple notion that total government expenditure should not exceed total tax revenue has gained real influence in Australia, particularly at the state level. This article explains why fiscal responsibility does not require overall budget balance. A balanced budget requirement of this type is not appropriate even if one were to make allowances for recession‐induced (‘cyclical’) deficits, and to seek to ban only ‘structural’ deficits. The reason for this is there are inherent irregularities in capital expenditure, and only through varying debt levels is it possible to reconcile reasonable stability of tax levels with stable levels of provision of public services (including services from public capital in

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1996.tb01181.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

After reviewing some of the literature on performance appraisal, this evaluation presents a case study of the introduction of two related schemes in a single Australian government agency. The reasons one was successful and the other less so included the ownership by the agency of the successful scheme; its rapid implementation; and its focus on development rather than appraisal

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1996.tb01182.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This review deals with papers distributed at meetings of administrators and research workers with fishers of the South East Trawl Fishery. The circumstances of the meetings are noted; a brief account is given of the papers and an examination is made of their effectiveness in serving the ostensive consultative purposes of the meetings. In respect of the issues raised — and those neglected — both the documents and the meeting procedures are judged to have been want

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1996.tb01183.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This contribution to a controversy argues that accrual reporting at the whole of government level is appropriate and necessary as it provides a full picture of a government's financial position, discloses the impact of policy over the longer term (and therefore the sharing of the burdens between current and future taxpayers), focuses the attention of governments and public sector managers on the management of total resources and obligations and introduces discipline in financial reporting and therefore ensuring the integrity of the reported information.Yet, accrual reporting, whether at the whole of government level or individual agency level, will not bring about changes of behaviour necessary to realise the full benefits of financial and other management reforms unless it is complemented by an accrual planning and budgeting regime to ensure that financial performance is planned and assessed on the same basis.

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1996.tb01184.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1996.tb01185.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY