Constructing the Craft of Public Administration: Perspectives from Australia

By Christine Shearer

Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Public Administration and the Reform Agenda
Chapter 2 Contemporary Management Ideas and Public Sector Reforms across Westminster Polities
Part II The Macro Level -Policy Contexts and Environments
Chapter 3 The Environments in which Departmental Secretaries Construct the Craft of Public Administration
Chapter 4 The Impact of Contemporary Management Ideas: Their Influence on Public Administration
Part III Exploring the Everyday Work Life of the Most Senior Public Servants
Chapter 5 Departmental Secretaries: The Public Actors who Construct the Craft of Public AdministrationChapter 6 Roles, Responsibilities and Boundary Riding
Part IV Discussion, Implications and Conclusions
Chapter 7 Discussion, Conceptual Model, Contributions and Implications
Chapter 8 Conclusions

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030818950
• ISBN13: 9783030818951
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"