1st Edition
Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats Essays on the contemporary Australian state
By Anna Yeatman
Copyright 1990
216 Pages
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Routledge
216 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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This collection of essays in political sociology and public policy contests some of the fundamental features of the contemporary State as it is manifested in Australia. It explores themes such as the development of the complex interventionist State, characterised by the proliferation of its activities to encompass virtually every feature of its subjects' daily lives and functioning as a central... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM AND THE AUSTRALIAN STATE IN THE 1980s
1. Administrative reform and management improvement
2. The concept of public management
3. Democratisation and the administrative state
PART II: FEMOCRATS AND THE AUSTRALIAN STATE
4. Are femocrats a class of their own?
5. Dilemmas for femocracy
PART III: RESTRUCTURING AND THE CRISIS OF THE WELFARE STATE
6. Restructuring and Australian public policy
7. Feminism and the 'crisis' of the welfare state
8. The politics of discourse and the politics of the state
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
PART I: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM AND THE AUSTRALIAN STATE IN THE 1980s
1. Administrative reform and management improvement
2. The concept of public management
3. Democratisation and the administrative state
PART II: FEMOCRATS AND THE AUSTRALIAN STATE
4. Are femocrats a class of their own?
5. Dilemmas for femocracy
PART III: RESTRUCTURING AND THE CRISIS OF THE WELFARE STATE
6. Restructuring and Australian public policy
7. Feminism and the 'crisis' of the welfare state
8. The politics of discourse and the politics of the state
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Anna Yeatman teaches sociology at Flinders University and frequently acts as a consultant to the public sector on program and policy evaluation. Among the collections to which she has contributed is Feminist Challenges. She is the author of Feminism, Post Modernism and Social Science (forthcoming).
