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ItemChoosing one’s history wisely: network governance and the question of institutional performance( 2004)How do governments get from one place to another? This is the question that lies at the centre of all discussions of institutional performance. In this paper I review some recent work on new forms of partnership and collaborative governance which suggest that a number of countries have recently begun to break from their previous structures and to make significant shifts in the way actors are engaged in public institutions. The paper will ask whether this can be understood in terms of standard notions of institutional theory (path dependence, systems theory, cultural theory and so on) and if not, why not.
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ItemEnterprising the state(Cambridge University Press, 2001)Perhaps there once was a time when the terms ‘state’, ‘market’ and ‘bureaucracy’ had settled meanings and when the institutions which they helped define had standard, widely understood purposes. If so this is certainly a book about the closing of that era and about a radical set of changes that now seeks to alter the nature of governance in many advanced capitalist states. The particular reform strategies we will identify in four countries seeking will help us map the contours of wider changes in the nature of contemporary governance. The front-line reinventions in these four countries spell-out the central characteristics of a process of change which can be defined as the enterprising of the state. This transformation is something less than a final accomplishment. Process is often more revealing than structure. The enterprising activity takes root in forms of managerialism, contractualism and reinvention within programs aimed at both the work of officials and the identity of citizen-clients. As such it constitutes a new transition model for systems of public action which are seeking ways to meet the challenges of globalisation and the imperatives of new levels of cultural diversity (Jessop, 1991; Lash and Urry,1987).
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ItemThe reform that never ends: quasi-markets and employment services in Australia(Kluwer Law International, 2005)
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ItemExplaining the Normative Underpinnings of Local Governance(University of New South Wales Press, 2005)
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ItemGovernance, networks and civil society: How local governments connect to local organisations and groups(University of New South Wales Press, 2008)
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ItemWho are the innovators inside government? The importance of networks(The University of Melbourne, 2008)
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ItemThe baby and the Bath water: The impact of American-Style Sctiovation Policies on Families(Melbourne University Press, 2005)
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ItemSteering, efficiency and partnership: the Australian quasi-market for public employment services(DJOF Publishers, 2005)