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Institutions, Actors, Strategies
Mark Considine's new book explores the nature of public policy-making in a world undergoing cataclysmic change. Running through the text is the core a...
A Critical Approach
An account of the policy-making process which develops a framework for policy analysis using the idea that policy systems develop out of particular fo...
The Public Management of Welfare-to-Work
This book, first published in 2001, is an examination of the changes underway in Western bureaucracies....
Regimes, institutions and resources
Scholars and policymakers have long known that there is a strong link between human development and spending on key areas such as education and health...
Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia
Throughout the industrialised world, universities have undergone remarkable changes since the mid-1980s. In Australia, interest has been intense, and ...
Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance
Contracting-out Welfare Services focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design ...
Street-Level Governance in Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands
Getting Welfare to Work traces the radical reform of the Australian, UK, and Dutch public employment services systems. Starting with major changes fro...
Politicians, Bureaucrats and the Pathways to Change Inside Government
This book examines the different normative approaches politicians, bureaucrats and community actors use to frame the innovation puzzle, arguing that t...
Inside Australia’s Privatised Welfare-to-Work Market
Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia res...
Designed to provide a brief introduction to the effects of globalisation on Australian politics, this book is divided into sections on political econo...
Reforming Australia's Social Services
The lives of all Australians are profoundly affected by the quality of social services available, but a long list of royal commissions and public inqu...
Inside Australia's Privatised Welfare-To-Work Market
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Street-level Governance in Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands
This volume traces the radical reform of the Australian, UK, and Dutch public employment services systems. Starting with major changes from 1998, the ...
The Australian Experience
Introduction to the welfare state in Australia which identifies and explains social policy in terms of its institutions and administration P past, pre...
Works Compensation from Woodhouse to Workcare
Workers' Compensation from Woodhouse to WorkCare