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Religion and public administration at the micro level: The lens of street‐level bureaucracy theory in democracies Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Niva Golan‐Nadir
The dynamics between religion and state in public administration implementation theories has garnered scholarly interest over the past decade. However, these two realms of study are rarely combined. In this research note, I explore religion and, more specifically, the implementation of religion‐based policies by street‐level bureaucrats, as a public service like any other. I point to the more commonly
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The Facilitative State and the Symbolic Potency of Mutual Obligation Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Michael Muetzelfeldt
This paper discusses ambiguities of mutual obligation at the levels of: defining the new political middle ground, policies for dealing with non‐compliance, the analytical frames that are used to support it, and discourses of contract. It concludes by locating these ambiguities within the cultural anthropological notion of symbol. As a symbol, mutual obligation has the power to confound its critics
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Contractualism, Democracy and Ethics Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Spencer Zifcak
Contractualism, as concept and practice, may be defined in different ways (Yeatman 1995, 1998). In this article I am concerned with contracting out or outsourcing as it is otherwise known. That is, I focus upon the process whereby functions undertaken formerly by government are now performed by private or voluntary organisations in a contractual relationship with public service departments and agencies
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Doing wellbeing policy: A discussion on public policy making for integrative prosperity Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 James A. Gordon
Focusing on holistic wellbeing rather than solely economic prosperity is becoming ever more popular among policy makers, both in Australia and New Zealand, and elsewhere. And yet, turning a complex set of system‐level indicators of wellbeing into actionable policy requires us to rethink how we develop, implement, and evaluate policy. In this article, I review the current trends in wellbeing, including
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Hybrid governance and welfare standards for broiler chickens raised for human consumption Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Peter John Chen, Siobhan O'Sullivan, Susan Pyke
This article examines the welfare standards that govern the lives of chickens raised for meat in Australia and the United Kingdom. While ‘meat chickens’ are subject to a wide range of welfare interventions, we focus on the development and implications of the ‘private’ standards which are the most significant determinants of meat chicken welfare in these jurisdictions: the RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme
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A ‘fair go’ values framework for public policy Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Cosmo Howard, Pandanus Petter, Juliet Pietsch
There is a growing interest in how policy processes can better incorporate the values of the communities they serve, yet policymakers face numerous challenges when they seek to embed values into policies. This paper builds on existing values research to develop a bespoke policy values framework for Australia, based on the popular notion of a ‘fair go’. While the fair go is often associated with a narrow
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Hybrid organisational form as a response to institutional complexity: The case of local municipally owned corporations in Lahore Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Madiha Rehman Farooqi, Shabana Naveed, Shajara Ul-Durar, Marco De Sisto
This paper explores hybrid organisational forms that have emerged in response to institutional complexity. For this purpose, the paper studies organisational practices to explore hybrid characteristics in municipally owned corporations (MOCs) and differentiate between distinct manifestations of hybridity. Using a case study research design, three MOCs are selected as units of analysis, and 30 semi-structured
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How Green Banks can create multiple types of value in the transition to net zero emissions Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Michelle Lyons, Lee Victoria White
Current levels of investment are insufficient to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, and private sector funding shortfalls are acute. Despite this, little research has been undertaken into Green Banks, a new form of institution which mixes public and private institutional logics to mobilise additional private investment in the net zero transition. This paper examines how hybridity manifests in Green
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Is there a role for hybrid service provision in place-based initiatives within the human services sector? Findings from an Australian exploratory study Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Kerryn Drysdale, Shona Bates, Alison Ritter, Ciara Smyth, Evelyne de Leeuw, Ilan Katz
The value of place-based initiatives in the design and delivery of human services has long been recognised, but the need for hybrid service delivery to clients—that is any combination of online and in-person modalities—has become more apparent in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. At face value, there may be a perceived contradiction between the reliance on geographical place in place-based initiatives
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Public sector innovation for sustainable development goals: A comparative study of innovation types in Thailand and Korea Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Chutima Suchitwarasan, Emre Cinar, Chris Simms, Jae-Yeon Kim
The aim of this paper is to compare the focus (strategy, capacity, and operation) and locus (internal and external) of innovation types of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)-oriented public sector innovation (PSI) in Thailand and Korea and to contribute to the limited understanding of the role of national context in PSI. Our study analysed 263 SDGs-oriented innovations based on the new typology proposed
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Exploring integrity in Australian public services: A method to benchmark public service codes of conduct Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Katie Moon, David Brunoro, James Connor, Helen Dickinson, Twan Huybers
Integrity is an ongoing concern in the public sector. Contemporary examples include fraud incidents, ethical violations, theft, and a disregard of legal advice resulting in significant harms to the public. Public service integrity management systems are interconnected frameworks of legislation and institutions intended to reduce such incidents, including Codes of Conduct (CoCs). A CoC is typically
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Expertise under uncertainty: Comparing policy expert platforms at the global climate–health nexus Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Holger Straßheim
This paper centres on expert platforms at the nexus between global climate policies and public health. Policy nexus problems have been associated with fragmentation and unclear authority. At the core, however, seem to be uncertainties about the nature of these problems and even about the nature of the nexus itself. The paper focuses on an especially rich ecosystem of policy expert platforms that have
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Why are individuals unwilling to report corruption? An inquiry into perception-based definitions of corruption and employment-related factors Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Felippe Clemente, Luís de Sousa, Raquel Rego, Patrícia Calca
Despite the increasing interest and investment in whistle-blowing regulations, policies, and mechanisms, people are still hesitant to report corruption. The existing literature explaining what deters people from reporting serious wrongdoing predominantly concentrates on either organisational factors or personal motivations. Only a limited number of studies integrate objective and subjective individual-level
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The limits of voluntary measures: Packaging the plastic pollution problem in Australia Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Stephen Jones, Brian W. Head
The massive global growth in the production, use, and disposal of plastic materials has generated a pollution crisis in many countries. In Australia, debates about how to address this multi-faceted challenge have lacked the political urgency necessary for adopting strong reform measures. Consistent with the early stages of other sustainability debates, the industrial producers and distributors of plastic
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The nature of measurement across the hybridised social sector: A systematic review of reviews Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Elizabeth-Rose Ahearn, Catherine Mai
Performance measurement and management serve as the key elements for demonstrating accountability to funders and stakeholders for many social entities. Although substantial study has been completed to understand the measurement practices employed by specific models of social entities, there is an absence of studies taking a broader perspective on organisational performance measurement across the entire
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Reducing the gap between rhetoric and reality: Use of Digital Service Standards for public service innovation through digital transformation in Australia Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Eric Patterson, Renu Agarwal
Nearly a decade ago, the Australian Federal Government introduced a Digital Service Standard (DSS) for new and redesigned government services. This was an opportunity to encourage digital services and disruptive innovations to help the government improve citizens outcomes, and indeed there was a significant uptake in the digital services assessments offered by the program with key government agencies
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Reconsidering expertise for public policymaking: The challenges of contestability Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Brian W. Head
It is commonly claimed there is a crisis of expertise in liberal democracies and that experts who provide evidence-based policy ideas have become widely distrusted. This paper reconsiders the nature of this perceived crisis in policy advisory systems. The literature has identified four reasons for this trend—politicisation, diversification, diminished policy capacity, and populism. Building on these
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At a cost: A review of the public accountability risks of Social Impact Bonds Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Simon Demuynck, Wouter Van Dooren
Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) have gained popularity as an alternative financing method for public services. SIBs promise to have lower risks for public budgets than traditional approaches. However, integrating private finance instruments into established public accountability procedures is notoriously difficult. Through a systematic review of the empirical research on implemented SIBs, this article examines
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Governing Greater Sydney: The democratic promise and contention of local governments’ metropolitan integration Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Jordan Taylor
Metropolitan planning in Australia is argued to suffer from a ‘governance deficit’, alongside various calls for planning reform. The Greater Sydney Commission (renamed the Greater Cities Commission in 2022) was established in 2015 as a state-appointed planning commission to preside over new strategic and statutory planning powers; local governments’ metropolitan integration is one tenet of the reform's
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Can network analysis identify market problems in quasi-markets? A proof-of-concept study on the National Disability Insurance Scheme Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Damon Alexander, Gemma Carey, Eleanor Malbon, Helen Dickinson, David Gilchrist, Gordon Duff, Satish Chand, Anne Kavanagh
The use of markets has a long history in the delivery of social services. Market-based arrangements are used worldwide with the goal of increasing choice, efficiency, and cost effectiveness in public service delivery. However, government-run markets or ‘quasi-markets’ do not behave as regular markets and therefore require interventions and stewardship in order to function efficiently and meet the social
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What roles might automation play in the future of public administration journal peer review processes? Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith
Publishing in journals is crucial in the creation of knowledge within the public administration field and the career advancements of individuals. Each year, more articles enter journal publishing systems, and it is becoming more difficult and time consuming for editors to secure reviewers. A range of technological applications have been developed that apply automation techniques to various aspects
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Information provision by non-government actors in the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme: A key market stewardship function in social care quasi-markets Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Celia Green, Eleanor Malbon, Gemma Carey
The use of quasi-markets for the delivery of social care continues to grow internationally. This has presented considerable challenges regarding governance and stewardship of these markets, to ensure they meet policy goals. To date, both scholarship and practice on quasi-market stewardship have mainly focused on the role of government. However, non-government actors can also play important stewardship
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Are Australian regulatory and policy frameworks ready for a distributed-energy-resources-led energy transition? Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Alexandr Akimov, Julian Inchauspe, Mike Mouritz, Angie Silva
Electricity markets are facing innovation disruptions at levels never seen before. One of the major drivers is the introduction of distributed energy resources (DERs) technologies, especially those that apply to rooftop solar power. This has called into question established regulatory practices and brought new challenges to system operations. In this context, this article seeks to provide a comprehensive
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Workplace democracy in action? Assessing employee board representation in Australian government agencies Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Benjamin Clark
Various scholars and political actors advocate workplace democratisation to give employees greater influence over decision-making. Many suggest employee board representation (EBR) as a mechanism to facilitate this, but some question how influential employee board representatives (EBRs) are and whether they represent their colleagues’ views. This study investigates the extent to which EBR contributes
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Behavioural change and cultural evolution, rather than cultural change: Insights for Australian Public Service Reform Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Fiona Buick
Cultural change is often positioned as central to transformation within the Australian Public Service (APS). The ongoing focus on cultural change suggests it has not yet been realised, which is unsurprising, given it is so difficult to change. However, cultural change may also be impeded due to the way it is portrayed within the APS. This article draws on the work of Schein to identify three problems
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Authentic leadership, psychological capital, acceptance of change, and innovative work behaviour in non-profit organisations Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Yvonne Brunetto, Georgios Kominis, Julia Ashton-Sayers
This paper examines whether authentic leadership provides the resources employees need to build their psychological capacities and well-being so that they can embrace organisational change and engage in innovative work behaviour (IWB) within non-profit organisation (NPO). The paper builds on previous research examining the antecedents of IWB such as ‘innovation-enabling culture’ and psychological capital
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What influences public decision-makers? An Australian case study Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Mitzi Bolton
Limited or incomplete achievement of societal aspirations, such as the realisation of sustainable development, can lead to distrust in government and the public sector. This paper takes an empirical approach to uncover (1) what factors influence public decision-makers, (2) if such factors apply equally irrespective of the decision, and (3) which are most important. Thirty-five interviews of public
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Punching above their weight or falling flat? Flagship policy modernisation initiatives in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Jonathan Craft, Samuel Henderson
Concerns of a decline in public service policy capacity coupled with evolving policy advisory systems have seen public services seek to reform their policy capacity and practices. This article examines the flagship policy modernisation initiatives launched by the Australian, Canadian, British, and New Zealand governments. Comparative analysis reveals a shared emphasis on overarching objectives, but
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Activation through welfare conditionality and marketisation in active labour market policies: Evidence from Indonesia Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Phuc Nguyen, Fadillah Putra, Mark Considine, Anwar Sanusi
Regardless of their prevalence and considerable expansion since the 1980s, evidence concerning the impact of welfare conditionality and marketisation in active labour market policies (ALMPs) has been inconclusive and mostly limited to developed and transition economies. Using mixed methods for collecting and analysing data, this study investigates the deployment of these two policy instruments in the
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Understanding the costs of co-commissioning: Early experiences with co-commissioning in Australia Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Shona Bates, Ben Harris-Roxas, Michael Wright
Public services, such as health and other human services, are increasingly being delivered by third-party providers (providers) under contract to public sector organisations (PSOs). While often advantageous to PSOs, this creates a fragmented service context which is difficult for consumers to navigate. Further, providers often deliver services under multiple contracts to multiple funders, with high
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Policy learning and the COVID-19 crisis: A systematic review of scholarship and key lessons for research and practice Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Bishoy L. Zaki, Ellen Wayenberg
Policy learning plays an important role during crises, where it can empower effective crisis responses or derail policy . Accordingly, a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic has created a surge in research on policy learning. In this article, and more than 3 years from the crisis’ onset, we systematically review what COVID-19 policy learning research has hitherto offered. We take stock of 45 scientific
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Inter-municipal cooperation and local government perspectives on community health and wellbeing Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Michelle J. Morgan, Elaine Stratford, Siobhan Harpur, Samantha Rowbotham, Dan Chamberlain
Globally, local governments face increasing service delivery demands and citizen expectations, including in relation to community health and wellbeing. Inter-municipal cooperation is one strategy to respond to those demands. In Australia, however, there is limited empirical research about the types of inter-municipal cooperation local governments engage in and about their perspectives on community
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Deliberate disproportionate policy outcomes and regulating deforestation in Queensland, Australia Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Henry Boer
This paper analyses the strategic interests that inform deforestation policies in Australia, and the variance in policy selections over time. A theory of deliberate policy disproportionality is used to analyse 20 years of regulatory reform in Queensland, focusing on the Vegetation Management Act (VMA) 1999. Application of the framework to this case suggests that political executives were prone to deliberately
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Assessing the ‘forgotten fundamental’ in policy advisory systems research: Policy shops and the role(s) of core policy professionals Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Andrea Migone, Michael Howlett
During the past 30 years, research on policy analytical capacity's multidimensional nature and the evolution of policy advisory systems (PASs) has both increased knowledge of these processes and structures and opened new avenues of inquiry. While it is clear that changes in PASs in many countries have occurred - featuring processes such as the increased externalisation and politicisation of policy
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Better bushfire safety decision-making: Making sense of complexities and challenges surrounding ‘Stay or Go’ and the Australian Fire Danger Rating System Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Graham Dwyer, John Schauble
In the context of bushfires (and other emergencies), state agencies should avoid developing policy and/or advice that locks people into rigid binary choices. In Victoria, Australia post-fire inquiries have found the bushfire safety advice often referred to as ‘Stay (and defend your property) or Go (early before the fire arrives)’ to be contradictory and competing in its logic. However, this advice
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Vale Siobhan O'Sullivan: Don't mourn, organise! Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Jenny M. Lewis
It is with a sense of privilege as well as loss that many are celebrating the contributions of Associate Professor Siobhan O'Sullivan, as well as mourning her. She passed away on 17 June 2023. Siobhan was an excellent scholar who made significant contributions to research on animal rights and welfare systems. She was also a tireless advocate for the disadvantaged—both humans and non-human animals.
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Opportunities and challenges of using workforce big data: Insights from a mixed methods study on flexible working Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Miriam Glennie, Fiona Buick, Deborah Blackman, Vindhya Weeratunga, Massimiliano Tani, Damian West, Helen Dickinson
This Practice and Policy paper presents reflections on the opportunities and challenges of using a novel big data set, Microsoft 365 digital activity records, in a mixed method study of flexible working. Our experience identified methodological and ethical considerations for practitioners and researchers in public sector workforce analytics. The benefits include data captured in situ and over time
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Examining organisational subcultures: Machinery of Government mergers and emerging organisational microcultures Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Theaanna Kiaos
Machinery of Government restructures—transformations that create or abolish departments or move functions between agencies—often result in the misalignment of cultures and subcultures that impact business operations and customer service levels. An understanding of how subcultures are impacted during restructures is vital as they can reveal diffused microcultural boundaries that reflect highly problematic
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Public services in island sub-districts: Towards geography-based governance Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Jusuf Madubun
This study proposes a form of governance of sub-district public services based on the geography of the Maluku archipelago in Indonesia. Using qualitative research, data were collected using in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, documentation, and field observations, involving informants from local and sub-district government elements and community leaders. This study revealed that the governance
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The negative relationships between employee resilience and ambiguity, complexity, and inter-agency collaboration Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Geoff Plimmer, Joana Kuntz, Evan Berman, Sanna Malinen, Katharina Näswall, Esme Franken
Employee resilience (ER) is often needed to face demands inherent in public sector work. Some types of demands, however, may hinder its development, rather than provide the type of challenging adversity from which resilience can develop. Public sector job demands have been a long-standing issue for public workplaces and employees but are also growing in salience as organisations face an increasingly
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Policy-making, policy-taking, and policy-shaping: Local government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Chris Stoney, Andy Asquith, Karyn Kipper, Jeff McNeill, John Martin, Alessandro Spano
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged nations states across the world. They have implemented lockdown and social distancing and with the development of vaccines have gone to great lengths to build herd immunity for their populations. As place managers, local government has played a variety of roles supporting central government edicts related to social distancing and supporting local businesses impacted
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The other side of the local government ledger—The association between revenue growth and population growth Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Joseph Drew, Masato Miyazaki, Michael A. Kortt
Population growth exerts an impact on both sides of the local government accounting ledger—expenditure and revenue. Despite this fact, the vast scholarly literature on local government finance has been myopically focussed on expenditure functions. This apparent neglect to also consider the revenue side of the ledger is problematic because many regulators across the globe have exhorted local governments
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The role of authentic leadership on healthcare Street-Level Bureaucrats’ well-being during the pandemic Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Nasim Salehi, Yvonne Brunetto, Tom Dick
This study uses Conservation of Resources Theory, to explain Street-Level Bureaucrats’ (SLBs) workplace behavioural responses to threats to their well-being. We examine whether authentic leadership within street-level organisations positively impacts employee well-being by increasing SLBs’ perception of personal resources, and reducing their perceptions of work harassment. The research design comprises
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Backloading to extinction: Coping with values conflict in the administration of Australia's federal biodiversity offset policy Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Megan C. Evans
Policy-makers are frequently required to consider and manage conflicting public values. An example of this in the environmental domain is biodiversity offset policy, which governments worldwide have adopted as a mechanism to balance environmental protection with socio-economic development. However, little work has examined administrative practices underpinning biodiversity offset policy implementation
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Public servants working from home during the pandemic: Who gained and who lost? Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Sue Williamson, Linda Colley, Twan Huybers, Massimiliano Tani
Employees experienced both advantages and disadvantages while working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers have examined these impacts on women and those with caring responsibilities; however, little research has examined the impacts on other groups of employees, such as those with a disability or employed on a casual basis. In this article, we focus on the public sector and examine
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‘That was all over the shop’: Exploring the COVID-19 response in disability residential settings Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Ashley McAllister, Helen Dickinson, Marie Huska, Alexandra Devine, Stefanie Dimov, Anne Kavanagh
People with disability are an ‘at-risk’ group in a pandemic context for various clinical and structural reasons. However, in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, people with disability were not identified as a priority group, which exacerbated this risk, particularly for those living in congregate settings. This paper examines inter-organisational issues during the second wave of the COVID-19
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Collective action and co-production of public services as alternative politics: The case of public transportation in Israel Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Niva Golan-Nadir, Tom Christensen
Can dissatisfaction with existing policies lead to the co-production of public goods and services? If so, under what conditions could such dissatisfaction lead to the co-production of public goods and services? We posit that when (1) citizens are dissatisfied with the policy as designed, (2) third-sector organisations are formed, and (3) politicians and street-level managers are engaged, the co-production
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Fixing big government or feeding private contractors? Empirical evidence from the case of municipal solid waste management Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Seejeen Park, M. Jae Moon
The assumption of new public management (NPM) that governments can lower costs and improve service quality through a market mechanism, such as competition, has been under debate over several decades. To test the NPM assumption, this study investigates the effects of contracting out on cost savings by analysing municipal solid waste management data collected in 25 local governments in the Republic of
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Innovating for the greater good: Examining innovation champions and what motivates them Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Courtney Molloy, Sarah Bankins, Anton Kriz, Lisa Barnes
Governments have increasingly tasked the not-for-profit sector with supporting the provision of public goods and services. Alongside this role, not-for-profits have faced increasingly challenging external contexts, including heightened competition and tighter funding regimes. This makes effective innovation critical for the successful delivery of social goods within this setting particularly, and in
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Gender targets and trickle-down effects: Avoiding the ‘decoupling dynamics’ that limit female representation in senior roles Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Jill A. Gould, Carol T. Kulik, Shruti R. Sardeshmukh
Women constitute the majority of the Australian public sector workforce, but their representation in senior roles is not proportional. Australian public services have gender targets to improve the representation of women in senior roles. Based on previous research, targets are expected to first increase female representation at the target's focal level, such as executive level. Then they should initiate
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Policy on innovation in Australia: Divergence in definitions, problems, and solutions Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Jenny M. Lewis, Gosia Mikolajczak
Innovation has joined the mainstream in many nations as governments search for new ways to tackle challenging societal and economic problems. But Australia is seen to be lagging on innovation policy. Is this related to how governments define innovation? What do they regard as the problem they are addressing? What proposed solutions follow from this? This paper examines how Australian governments have
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What affects the turnover intention of civil servants: Evidence from Bhutan Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Assel Mussagulova, Mehmet Akif Demircioglu
Research utilising self-determination theory (SDT) and, in particular, the concept of need satisfaction in public organisations has been increasing in recent years. At the same time, most studies are using insights from SDT, and are not really testing them. In fact, we still have limited knowledge on the outcomes of need satisfaction for civil servants. In this study, we aim to understand how need
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Transforming the Australian agricultural biosecurity framework: The role of institutional logics Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Melanie Bryant, Vaughan Higgins, Marta Hernández-Jover, Russell Warman
The Australian government has transformed the national biosecurity framework by shifting from a quarantine to a shared responsibility approach. This reflects a move from centralised to network-based governance. While network governance enables the development of private and public networks needed to enact a shared responsibility approach, it can sit in tension with this approach, which requires the
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Leadership skills for regulators Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Mitzi Bolton, Michael Mintrom
Regulation plays a vital role in reducing harms and promoting public order. However, regulatory reform has been likened to painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge, it never ends. Coupling this reality with the increasing array of areas requiring regulation, there is an acute need for regulators to become more effective in how they work. We discuss the leadership skills needed to ensure regulators consistently
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Business model–dynamic capabilities and open innovation initiatives in research-intensive organisations: A case of Australia's national science agency Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Alexandra Kriz, Julia Tresidder, Anne-Maree Dowd, Jay Weerawardena, Lars Witell, Hannah Snyder, Rohan de Pallant
Publicly funded national science agencies create value as innovation catalysts and through their scientific and research missions, they tackle wicked problems. Understanding how dynamic capabilities and business model innovation enable research-intensive organisations to seize the market in the mission is key to translating bold new science that has impact. We qualitatively explore how Australia's
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The mixed effects of e-participation on the dynamic of trust in government: Evidence from Cameroon Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Ge Xin, Elna E. Esembe, Jia Chen
Regular participation of citizens in governance and policy processes has been considered critical to the functioning of the democratic model of governance. While recent studies have documented the emergence and evolution of participatory governance in Western countries, little is known about the influence of citizens’ participation on e-governance in African countries. Leveraging an original survey
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Children, COVID, and confusion: How frontline workers cope with the challenges of vaccine mandates Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Jake Harvey, Katie Attwell
With the emergence of COVID-19, many governments around the world co-oped non-health actors into enforcing comprehensive mandatory vaccination policies. Implementing these policies can be challenging, creating irreconcilable goals and problems with knowledge and understanding of areas outside the implementers’ direct field of expertise or scope of work. We know very little about how such frontline
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Modifying children's court care plans to acknowledge poverty and disadvantage Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Frank Ainsworth
This think piece suggests that Children's Court Care Plans should include a new section that documents poverty and social disadvantage, especially of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, when they are under investigation for child abuse and neglect. New South Wales in Australia is used as the exemplar state, but this suggestion may find an echo elsewhere.
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Indigenous institutions and local government in the Torres Strait Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Bartholomew Matthew Stanford
The relationships between local governments and Indigenous institutions in Australia are unstudied, despite both being oriented to the local level. Related research focuses on the performance of Indigenous local governments, Indigenous forms of governance and its relation to local government, relations between local governments and Indigenous communities, and the intercultural dynamics of Indigenous
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Assessing policy analytical capacity in contemporary governments: New measures and metrics Australian Journal of Public Administration (IF 2.14) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Andrea Migone, Michael Howlett
Assessing the policy analytical capacity (PAC) of governments has suffered in the past from the anecdotal nature of most studies, leading to different evaluations of specific analytical activities and of the overall competences and capacities of governments as a whole. What is needed to advance the field is a set of metrics that can generate insights into the capabilities of different units and how