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This volume of proactive essays on delivering policy reform offers an intriguing blend of strategic policy advice and management insight. It brings together a diverse range of high quality contributors from overseas as well as from Australia and New Zealand.

Policy sciences. --- Policy sciences --- Public administration --- Social Sciences --- Social Sciences - General --- Public administration. --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Policy-making --- Policymaking --- Public policy management --- Political science --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Public officers

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This important and challenging volume of essays draws on insights from leading academics and public servants from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere. It provides an excellent series of critiques of both the systemic accountabilities and the policy processes of government by drawing on meticulously researched, topical and real-world case studies of governance. Its contribution to the understanding of the applied processes of government in this way is exemplary. Topics covered include: restoring trust in government, parliamentary scrutiny of the APS, administrative law and FOI, budgetary reforms, implementation issues, competition policy, indigenous administration, collaboration with the NGO sector, educational reforms and the changes to the Auditor- General’s mandate.

Government accountability. --- Politics, Practical. --- Public administration. --- Government accountability --- Politics, Practical --- Public administration --- Government - General --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Institutions & Public Administration - General --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Political science --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Public officers --- Electoral politics --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Politics --- Practical politics --- Political participation --- Accountability in government --- Responsibility --- government --- case studies --- politics --- policy processes --- accountability --- Audit --- Australia --- Australian National Audit Office --- Public sector --- States and territories of Australia