1st Edition
Reorienting a Nation: Consultants and Australian Public Policy
By John F. Martin
Copyright 1998
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1998, this volume examines how in the 1980s Australian governments experienced dramatic change in the policy-making environment. The use of consultants by successive Hawke Labour governments in the mid-to-late 1980s to facilitate reviews of public policy was a strategy important to dealing with the complexity of these issues. This book shows how the use of policy consultants... Read more
1. Introduction. 2. Public Policy: Managing ‘Wicked’ Social Problems. 3. Australian Public Policy: Labor in the 1980s. 4. Consultants: Complementing the Policy – Making Process. 5. Social Welfare in the Modern State. 6. Housing Provision for the Long Term: Reorganising Federal-State Responsibilities. 7. Continuing Dilemmas of Australian Migration. 8. Pandemics and the Public Health Response. 9. Going with the Might of Asia. 10. Tension and Complexity in Public Policy – Making. 11. Conclusion.
Biography
John F. Martin
’...this book shows how the work of policy consultants complements decision making about public policy issues.’ Abstracts of Public Administration, Development and Environment
