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Accountability is a vogue word. It has been around for a while now, but does not seem to be going out of fashion. Probably that is because the word reflects and reinforces a value system in relation to government and administration which is solid and good, not just a passing fad. If that is right, then the only difficulty with the notion of accountability is that it may be bandied round to such an extent as to become a mere slogan, a substitute for thought.

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1990.tb02245.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Parliamentary committees (and especially the one I chair) seldom make headlines and often, perhaps after months or even years of toil, a carefully researched report is left to gather dust unnoticed. So I welcome the attention on this occasion.

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1990.tb02246.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:The program budgeting and related reforms initiated by the Commonwealth in 1985 require federal departments and agencies to set objectives for their programs and to develop performance measures to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of these programs. This paper examines the targeting efficiency of Australia's social security programs and finds that these are among the most efficient of OECD countries.

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1990.tb02247.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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In a recent intervention within the debate about the managerialist reconstitution of Australian public bureaucracies, the Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Finance, Michael Keating (1989, p.124), sums up what he calls theraison dêtreof the reforms “as changing the focus more to ‘management for results’”. He proposes that the aim in this has been “to focus management attention on the purposes of programs and the cost‐effective achievement of outcomes rather than simply on inputs an

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1990.tb02248.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:This paper presents an analysis of the Esperance Local Enterprise Initiatives Committee, which is at the heart of an archetypal emerging pattern of local economic development distinct both from top‐down statist models and from market alternatives. The model is composed of a mixture of state resources (notably finance, information and legitimacy), elements associated with entrepreneurialism, grass‐roots orientation, bottom‐up implementation, the pursuit of profit, and a network system which interlocks the ELEIC with different government departments and age

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1990.tb02249.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:This article applies Schaffer's 1984 critique of the “sectoralism” of mainstream public policy practice and discourse to Aboriginal housing policy in Australia. It analyses the approaches and programs of the Aboriginal housing policy sector and the priority given to them over the years. It then identifies the dominant agenda of Aboriginal housing policy defined in terms of massive statistics of nationwide Aboriginal housing need. An alterative agenda defined in terms of appropriate non‐conventional housing and facilities for remote areas is also identified and its struggle for recognition traced. The final sections of the article suggest reasons why this alternative agenda has remained on the margins of the Aboriginal housing policy sector and examine its prospects for becoming less marginal in the f

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1990.tb02250.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:Over the last two decades wilderness conservation has resurfaced to become one of the most contentious issues currently on the public agenda. The “politics” of wilderness preservation has been extensively reported in the media, but academic analysis has been on a superficial level and usually by the supporters of “conservation”. This analysis has not proved particularly helpful for policy practitioners in thi

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1990.tb02251.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:This case study explores how organisational professionals cope with politics. It examines engineers responsible for synchronising traffic signals in Brisbane. How do engineers, working with complex statistical models of traffic flow, handle disruptive political demands for a pedestrian crossing or a shopping mall in the middle of an otherwise coordinated traffic signals system? And how do these organisational professionals, committed to installing and operating traffic signals, deal with politicians' recent preference for roundabouts as the preferred traffic control device? Simon's notion of “bounded rationality” is evoked, when it is suggested that traffic engineers deal with politics by restricting their world view to problem‐solving rather than system co

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1990.tb02252.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:Increasingly, the terms occupying centre stage on the policy agenda in many countries are global in reach. Thus they stretch the operational efficiency and suitability of the fabric of the sovereign state to its limits, and beyond. In particular the issue of global environmental change is demonstrating the need to break new ground in terms of institutions and instruments which provide vehicles for the creation and implementation of public policy “beyond the state”. This paper explores the evolution of this situation during this century, and considers the institutional responses to the need for broader and broader geographical expressions of sovereig

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1990.tb02253.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Reading the comparative analysis of federations as different, constitutionally and culturally, as Canada, the USA, Australia, India and Nigeria, to mention only a few, is to agree with the title of this review. The words are taken from the Introduction to Bakvis and Chandler and this review argues that use of the word “surprisingly” is misplaced. Much of the writing critical of federalism has been labouring under a misunderstanding of its dynamic nature and its underlying streng

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1990.tb02254.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY