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ItemFront-line work in employment services after ten years of New Public Management reform: Governance and activation in Australia, the Netherlands and the UKConsidine, M ; Lewis, JM (Sage Publications, 2010)This study examines the impact of administrative reforms upon the work of front-line staff in the employment services of three reform-oriented countries – Australia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. These changes have involved greater use of private agents, more detailed performance contracts, clearer expectations about outcomes for job-seekers, and increased competition between agencies seeking government work. The study compares the work characteristics and strategies of front-line staff in agencies in the three systems in 2008 and a decade earlier, using surveys. The results show that there are substantial differences in the level of tailoring and investment in these countries. There are three relatively stable modes of governance in these cases and the most stable of these types across countries and across time is what we term the corporate-market mode – more generally labelled New Public Management (NPM). Despite the expectations of theorists and of reformers, the role of network governance proves neither as stable nor as generalised as expected.
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ItemThe reform that never ends: quasi-markets and employment services in AustraliaCONSIDINE, M. (Kluwer Law International, 2005)
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ItemExplaining the Normative Underpinnings of Local GovernanceCONSIDINE, M ; LEWIS, JM ; SMYTH, PG ; JONES, A ; REDDEL, T (University of New South Wales Press, 2005)
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ItemGovernance, networks and civil society: How local governments connect to local organisations and groupsCONSIDINE, M ; LEWIS, J ; ALEXANDER, D (University of New South Wales Press, 2008)
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ItemPartnerships, Relationships and Networks: Understanding Local Collaboration Strategies in Different CountriesCONSIDINE, M ; OECD PUBLISHING, OECD (OECD Publications, 2005)
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ItemDesigning Local Governance Partnerships: Issues and Dynamics in Two Australian CasesCONSIDINE, M ; HART, A ( 2006)
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ItemWho are the innovators inside government? The importance of networksCONSIDINE, M ; LEWIS, J ; ALEXANDER, D (The University of Melbourne, 2008)
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ItemThe baby and the Bath water: The impact of American-Style Sctiovation Policies on FamiliesCONSIDINE, M ; MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY, MUP (Melbourne University Press, 2005)
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ItemSteering, efficiency and partnership: the Australian quasi-market for public employment servicesCONSIDINE, M. (DJOF Publishers, 2005)
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ItemNetworks, Innovation and Public Policy: Politicians, Bureaucrats and the Pathways to Change inside GovernmentConsidine, M ; Lewis, JM ; Alexander, D (PALGRAVE, 2009)