Institutions on the edge?: Capacity for governance

by Patrick Weller, John Wanna, Michael Keating

Book Overview

Australia faces major challenges to its forms of governance. Changing expectations from its citizens, global pressures on the economy and technological innovation are impacting on government operations. Yet most of its institutions were designed a hundred years ago. Cabinet government was inherited. Parliament was already established in its forms and procedures. The federal structure, the High Court and the federal public service were created as a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1865084832
• ISBN13: 9781865084831
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"