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Kildea, Paul, and Sarah Murray. "Democratic Constitutions, Electoral Commissions and Legitimacy – The Example of Australia." Asian Journal of Comparative Law 16, S1 (December 2021): S177—S192. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asjcl.2021.35.
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AbstractThis article explores the structure, management and institutional design of commissions in Australia and unpacks how these institutions operate within the Australian political landscape. Part 1 looks at the structure of Australian electoral commissions and how they maintain structural independence. Part 2 seeks to better understand Australian electoral institutions, through an examination of how they have manoeuvred administrative and political challenges and emergencies when they have arisen. Finally, Part 3 employs a neo-institutionalist lens to focus on the internal and external dynamics that assist or hinder the operation of commissions in Australia and how legitimacy and institutional trust can be created, maintained and harmed by electoral agencies in the Australian context.
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Sawyer, Anne-Maree, David Green, Anthony Moran, and Judith Brett. "Should the nurse change the light globe?" Journal of Sociology 45, no. 4 (November 24, 2009): 361–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783309346478.
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Over the last two decades New Public Management, de-institutionalization and the growth of community care have radically altered the landscape of human service delivery in Australia. As a consequence of these changes, human service agencies have been compelled to develop mechanisms for regulating and managing the risks involved in frontline community care — and the management of risk is now pivotal to the practices of professional workers in this field. British research suggests that the emphasis on risk gives rise to greater monitoring and administrative supervision of workers and a focus on managerial rather than therapeutic skills. This article presents some early findings from an Australian study that finds a very different picture. Based on interviews with 24 social workers and nurses employed in community care, we found that these workers expressed a strong sense of agency when interpreting and negotiating the risk management policies of their respective organizations, and were focused primarily on the needs of their clients rather than bureaucratic procedures.
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Mann, Monique. "New public management and the ‘business’ of policing organised crime in Australia." Criminology & Criminal Justice 17, no. 4 (October 26, 2016): 382–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748895816671384.
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The globalisation of new public management (NPM) across OECD countries had a profound impact on the administration and management of policing policy and practice. The ideologies of NPM were enthusiastically embraced in Australia in response to high-level corruption with mixed results. This article draws on interviews with senior Australian federal police to explore the policing of organised crime in the context of NPM. Emerging themes concerned the requirement to make the ‘business case’ for resources on the basis of strategic intelligence, recognition of the complexities associated with performance measurement and institutional competition as agencies vie for limited public resources. This article questions the discursive practices of NPM policing and raises questions about notions of ‘accountability’ and ‘transparency’ for effective police approaches to organised crime.
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Paudyal, D. R., K. McDougall, and A. Apan. "The Impact of Varying Statutory Arrangements on Spatial Data Sharing and Access in Regional NRM Bodies." ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences II-8 (December 23, 2014): 193–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-ii-8-193-2014.
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Spatial information plays an important role in many social, environmental and economic decisions and increasingly acknowledged as a national resource essential for wider societal and environmental benefits. Natural Resource Management is one area where spatial information can be used for improved planning and decision making processes. In Australia, state government organisations are the custodians of spatial information necessary for natural resource management and regional NRM bodies are responsible to regional delivery of NRM activities. The access and sharing of spatial information between government agencies and regional NRM bodies is therefore as an important issue for improving natural resource management outcomes. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the current status of spatial information access, sharing and use with varying statutory arrangements and its impacts on spatial data infrastructure (SDI) development in catchment management sector in Australia. Further, it critically examined whether any trends and significant variations exist due to different institutional arrangements (statutory versus non-statutory) or not. A survey method was used to collect primary data from 56 regional natural resource management (NRM) bodies responsible for catchment management in Australia. Descriptive statistics method was used to show the similarities and differences between statutory and non-statutory arrangements. The key factors which influence sharing and access to spatial information are also explored. The results show the current statutory and administrative arrangements and regional focus for natural resource management is reasonable from a spatial information management perspective and provides an opportunity for building SDI at the catchment scale. However, effective institutional arrangements should align catchment SDI development activities with sub-national and national SDI development activities to address catchment management issues. We found minor differences in spatial information access, use and sharing due to varying institutional environment (statutory versus non-statutory). The non-statutory group appears to be more flexible and selfsufficient whilst statutory regional NRM bodies may lack flexibility in their spatial information management practices. We found spatial information access, use and sharing has significant impacts on spatial data infrastructure development in catchment management sector in Australia.
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Podger, Andrew. "Enduring Challenges and New Developments in Public Human Resource Management." Review of Public Personnel Administration 37, no. 1 (February 16, 2017): 108–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734371x17693057.
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Australia has its own unique institutional arrangements within which its civil services operate, yet its experience in public sector human resource management over the last 40 years or so has much in common with that of many other Western democracies, including the United States. It faces enduring challenges such as the relationship between politics and administration while its approach to public management has evolved from traditional Weberian administration through new public management to a much more complex, open and networked system. While the role of government in society has not radically changed, the way in which that role has been exercised has changed significantly. Government employees represent a smaller proportion of the workforce, what they do and their skills have changed dramatically, internal arrangements to foster ethics and to manage staff are different today, new approaches have been adopted to compensate and motivate employees, the diversity of employees has widened, and the place of human resource management (HRM) in agencies’ strategic management processes has ebbed and waned. In each of these areas, human resource (HR) managers in Australia today face difficult questions about future directions. Most of these will be familiar to HR managers in other countries.
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Davis, Glyn. "Federalism Versus Centralisation: Organizational Design and Public Broadcasting in America and Australia." Journal of Public Policy 10, no. 2 (April 1990): 195–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x00004815.
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ABSTRACTFollowing Wildavsky's argument that a federal bias is often the best principle for organising public policy, this study compares two national public broadcasting systems: the diffuse pattern of multiple agencies used in the United States of America and the highly centralized design employed in Australia. The paper examines whether each structure can respond to an audience while resisting the partisan demands of politicians. Significant advantages are found in the American model, though the question arises of whether participation and editorial independence in public broadcasting are bought at the cost of efficiency and effectiveness.
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Lee, Kye-Sik, and Hyung-Pyo Moon. "Creating Competitive Environments in the Public Sector: Experiences in OECD Countries and Korea." Korean Journal of Policy Studies 10 (December 31, 1995): 93–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.52372/kjps10005.
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As part of the shift to a more results-oriented approach to management and accountability, some OECD countries like the United Kingdom Australia, Canada, and New Zealand recognized, to varying degrees, that to more effectively and efficiently manage their programs and achieve significant improvements in performance, agencies and managers must be provided with greater flexibility over resources and incentives. In a sense, these countries implemented reforms which reflected a shift toward more business like methods. They eliminated detailed central control of departments' operating expenditures and staffing levels and provided departments with more authority to manage resources within overall their budget ceilings. In the four countries mentioned above, to provide flexibility and incentives to line management, central management departments and central management within line departments sought to devolve greater decision-making authority over financial and human resources and provide incentives in the form of shared productivity gains and market-type mechanisms (MTMs), such as increased competition and user-charging.
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Lloyd, David, and Fiona Norrie. "Identifying Training Needs to Improve Indigenous Community Representatives Input into Environmental Resource Management Consultative Processes: A case study of the Bundjalung Nation." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 20, no. 1 (2004): 101–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0814062600002342.
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AbstractDespite increased engagement of Indigenous representatives as participants on consultative panels charged with processes of natural resource management, concerns have been raised by both Indigenous representatives and management agencies regarding the ability of Indigenous people to have quality input into the decisions these processes produce. In order to determine how to more effectively engage Australian Aboriginal peoples in the management process, this article describes the results of interviews with Elders of the Bundjalung Nation and other community representatives who represent their community's interests on natural resource management boards within their traditional country. Community representatives identified the factors they considered important in understanding natural resource management and administrative processes and where training would enable them to make a significant contribution to the consultation process. It also highlighted a need for non-Indigenous managers to gain a greater understanding of Indigenous knowledge systems and protocols.
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HEALY, KAREN, and SIV OLTEDAL. "An Institutional Comparison of Child Protection Systems in Australia and Norway Focused on Workforce Retention." Journal of Social Policy 39, no. 2 (January 5, 2010): 255–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s004727940999047x.
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AbstractBy any standard, child protection work is a demanding field of social services work. Throughout much of the post-industrial world, child protection agencies face significant problems in recruiting and retaining front-line staff with the abilities required to undertake this often complex and stressful work. The capacity of these agencies to achieve their social policy objectives can be compromised by workforce instability. Despite a growing body of evidence about the contribution of local organisational and caseworker characteristics to workforce turnover, policy-makers face a dearth of information about how the broader institutional context of child protection systems contributes to challenges in workforce retention. This lack of evidence is notable given the varying rates of caseworker turnover observed internationally, particularly between social policy regimes where different institutional contexts shape workforce conditions. This article aims to contribute to the evidence base for improving workforce retention in child protection services through an institutional comparison of child protection systems in Queensland (Australia) and Norway. We analyse the role of the institutional conditions in shaping the nature and scope of child protection work, characteristics and responsibilities of caseworkers, and their financial remuneration for this work. We discuss how these institutional effects help to explain the differences in workforce turnover among child protection workers in Queensland and Norway.
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Osmond, Craig. "Anti-social behaviour and its surveillant inter-assemblage." Surveillance & Society 7, no. 3/4 (July 6, 2010): 325–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v7i3/4.4159.
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This paper describes a recent initiative in NSW, Australia in the state government’s “fight against anti-social behaviour”. The Anti-Social Behaviour Pilot Project has developed a surveillance regime that exempts justice and human service public authorities from existing privacy laws so that these agencies can share risk intelligence about targeted young people for a more integrated and multi-agency intensive management of risk. A detailed account of the ensemble of statements that have shaped and made this highly politicised risk governance possible is outlined. The initiative seeks to establish a more flexible mode of surveillance capable of intervening into cases of persistent risks linked to the possibility of criminal offending and the risks of persistent offending that have both become linked to public safety. Two analytical frames are used to make sense of the project. Firstly, its nodal technique for integrating case management risk across governmental assemblages (police, health etc) is analysed as an exemplar of a post-panoptical surveillant inter-assemblage designed for the networked control of young people. Secondly, Agamben’s (1988, 2005) account of the state of exception is used to demonstrate how the project’s extra-legal administrative procedures for managing risks linked to “the public interest” establish a spatial arrangement for the control of young people based on decisions of exclusion that are paradoxically located inside and outside the law.
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van Stolk, Christian, and Kai Wegrich. "Convergence without diffusion? A comparative analysis of the choice of performance indicators in tax administration and social security." International Review of Administrative Sciences 74, no. 4 (December 2008): 589–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852308098470.
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This article cross-nationally compares the choice of performance indicators in two core fields of state activity, tax administration and social security. Exploring the selection of performance indicators in six countries (Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US), the article analyses the driving forces for the choice of particular indicators in the context of national administrative traditions and more recent reform agendas on the one hand and the trend towards international exchange and `benchmarking' on the other hand. The article explores the relative significance and interaction of different driving forces of choice and how this shapes the development and application of performance indicators. To that end, it combines instutionalist approaches with the literature on the mechanisms and effects of international exchange and policy diffusion. Our analysis suggests that existing broad similarities are linked to similarities in core activities and values underlying contemporary public service reforms. Variation in the choice of performance indicators (PIs) reflects domestic factors such as governance arrangements through which broad reform trends are filtered. These arrangements also mediate any direct international learning. Points for practitioners This article aims to contribute to the debate around how organizations could learn from the experience of others in designing performance indicators and management systems. Potential for cross-national and cross-sectional learning is particularly high in categories where a particular organization has not yet developed performance indicators but others have done so already. But any cross-reading from other countries' choices should take into account that the definition and use of performance indicators is to a substantial extent driven by domestic institutional traditions, governance arrangements and wider national approaches to performance management. The design of performance indicators should in particular take into account the accountability relations in which agencies are embedded.
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Schofield, Toni, Belinda Reeve, and Ron McCallum. "Australian workplace health and safety regulatory approaches to prosecution: Hegemonising compliance." Journal of Industrial Relations 56, no. 5 (January 17, 2014): 709–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022185613509625.
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Enforcement of workplace health and safety regulations remains a contentious matter, especially in the context of Australia’s project to harmonise commonwealth, state and territory workplace health and safety legislation. This article presents the findings of a qualitative study investigating policies and practices associated with prosecution and enforcement in two Australian regulatory agencies, prior to harmonisation. The article finds that by 2008, both regulators had taken significant steps to render their enforcement policy and practice, particularly in relation to prosecution, more transparent and accountable to employers and the wider community. They produced detailed and publicly available enforcement policies and prosecution guidelines, reconfigured the work of the general inspectorate (confining it to routine workplace health and safety surveillance and the provision of education and advice to employers) and established a separate administrative unit responsible for investigation and prosecution. Both regulators structured prosecution processes to achieve explicitly technocratic outcomes, namely, enhanced efficiency, objectivity, timeliness, consistency and quality improvement in investigations. These processes went hand in hand with a dramatic decline in the use of prosecution in New South Wales from 2002 to 2010, and an uneven but marginal increase in Victoria for the same period. The article concludes by discussing what these findings might imply for workplace health and safety regulators’ approaches to prosecution and for deterrence under Australia’s new harmonised regime.
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Ball, Sarah, and Brian W. Head. "Behavioural insights teams in practice: nudge missions and methods on trial." Policy & Politics 49, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 105–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557320x15840777045205.
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Behavioural and experimental projects have become increasingly popular with policymakers. Behavioural insights teams have used several policy design and implementation tools drawn from behavioural sciences, especially randomised controlled trials, to test the design of ‘nudge’ interventions. This approach has attained discursive legitimacy in government agencies seeking to use the best available evidence for behaviourally informed, evidence-based policy innovation. We examine the practices of governmental behavioural insights teams in Australia, drawing on two research projects that included interviews with key personnel. We find that teams make strong commitments to using and promoting randomised controlled trials in government policy innovation. Nevertheless, some members of these teams are beginning to appreciate the constraints of relying solely on randomised controlled trials in the development of behavioural public policy. We conclude that while an initial focus on rigorous trials helped behavioural insights teams establish themselves in policymaking, strict adherence may represent a risk to their long-term growth and relevance.
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Clement, Sarah, Susan A. Moore, Michael Lockwood, and Tiffany H. Morrison. "A diagnostic framework for biodiversity conservation institutions." Pacific Conservation Biology 21, no. 4 (2015): 277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc15032.
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Biodiversity loss is a critical issue on the environmental agenda, with species-based approaches failing to stem the decline. Landscape-scale approaches offer promise, but require institutional change. This article describes a novel conceptual framework for assessing institutional arrangements to tackle this persistent problem. In doing so, two critical issues for biodiversity governance are addressed. The first is a need to enrich largely theoretical descriptions of adaptive governance by considering how the practical realities of institutional environments (e.g. public agencies) limit achievement of an adaptive governance ‘ideal’. The second is enabling explicit consideration of the unique aspects of biodiversity as a ‘policy problem’ in the analysis of institutional arrangements. The framework contributes to efforts to design more adaptive institutional arrangements, through supporting a more sophisticated and grounded institutional analysis incorporating insights from institutional theory, especially literature on organisational environments and public administration. Concepts from Pragmatism also contribute to this grounding, providing insight into how public agencies can play a more productive role in biodiversity conservation and building public consent for management actions. The diagnostic categories in the framework include the attributes of the biodiversity problem and the involved players; the political context; and practices contributing to both competence and capacity. Guidance on how to apply the framework and an example of its application in Australia illustrate the utility of this tool for institutional diagnosis and design. Development of this diagnostic framework could be further enhanced by empirically informed elaboration of the relationships between its components, and of the nature of, and factors influencing, key concerns for adaptation, particularly learning, self-organising and buffering.
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Kempf, Robin J., and Adam Graycar. "Dimensions of Authority in Oversight Agencies: American and Australian Comparisons." International Journal of Public Administration 41, no. 14 (July 28, 2017): 1145–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2017.1347947.
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Stewart, Jenny, and Paul Kringas. "Change Management-Strategy and Values in Six Agencies from the Australian Public Service." Public Administration Review 63, no. 6 (November 2003): 675–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1540-6210.00331.
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Zhang, Hong Liang, Jing Hua Sha, and Bo He. "A Study of Mining Administrative Agencies in the United States." Advanced Materials Research 734-737 (August 2013): 709–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.734-737.709.
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With the continued growth in demand for mineral resources, various countries have begun to emphasize the efficiency of the development and utilization of mineral resources, mining management system of a country becomes a research hotspot. Administrative agencies are always part of this system. The United States is one of the big countries of the mineral resources and has accumulated a wealth of experience to the development and management of mineral resources since the promulgation of the Mining Act (1872).The study of its mining administrative agencies will become a reference to China's mining management and department reform. First, this article will introduce current mining administrative agencies of the United States. Secondly, it will summarize the experience of the U.S. mining management. Finally, it will propose to think on the China's mining management.
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O’Sullivan, Siobhan, Michael McGann, and Mark Considine. "The Category Game and its Impact on Street-Level Bureaucrats and Jobseekers: An Australian Case Study." Social Policy and Society 18, no. 4 (May 14, 2019): 631–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746419000162.
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A key question concerning the marketisation of employment services is the interaction between performance management systems and frontline client-selection practices. While the internal sorting of clients for employability by agencies has received much attention, less is known about how performance management shapes official categorisation practices at the point of programme referral. Drawing on case studies of four Australian agencies, this study examines the ways in which frontline staff contest how jobseekers are officially classified by the benefit administration agency. With this assessment pivotal in determining payment levels and activity requirements, we find that reassessing jobseekers so they are moved to a more disadvantaged category, suspended, or removed from the system entirely have become major elements of casework. These category manoeuvres help to protect providers from adverse performance rankings. Yet, an additional consequence is that jobseekers are rendered fully or partially inactive, within the context of a system designed to activate.
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Jo Ann Beckwith, Dr, and Dr Susan A. Moore. "The influence of recent changes in public sector management on biodiversity conservation." Pacific Conservation Biology 7, no. 1 (2001): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc010045.
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Over the last 15 years increasing emphasis has been placed worldwide on biodiversity conservation. During the same period, the public sector which carries much of the responsibility for biodiversity conservation has experienced, in OECD countries, a revolution in management practices. Managerialism has emerged, modeled on private sector philosophies including economic efficiency and accountability. Managerialism and an increased emphasis on biodiversity conservation have occurred over the same period, however, the links have not been investigated. This paper explores the influences of managerialism on biodiversity conservation in three Western Australian state public sector agencies: the Department of Conservation and Land Management; Water and Rivers Commission; and Water Corporation. Each of the agencies has embraced managerialism in a different way, modifying elements to match organizational mandates. All have become conscious of managing political risk. Other managerialist influences include increased emphases on contracting, strategic planning and performance reporting. Understanding managerialism helps managers and researchers manage the socio-political environment to achieve desired outcomes, in this case biodiversity conservation. Managerial skills such as diplomacy, administration, decision making and leadership are essential if managers and researchers are to influence decision making and progress through agencies, given that technical expertise is no longer sufficient.
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BRADY, MICHELLE. "Targeting single mothers? Dynamics of contracting Australian employment services and activation policies at the street level." Journal of Social Policy 47, no. 4 (April 10, 2018): 827–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279418000223.
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AbstractActivation reforms targeted at single parents simultaneously construct them as a legitimate target for activation policy and subject them to new obligations to engage in paid work or education/training. The social policy literature has established that the work of ‘making-up’ target groups occurs at the street level as well as in government legislation. The street level has become even more significant in recent years as there has been a shift towards establishing quasi-markets for the delivery of welfare-to-work programmes and organising these around the principles of performance pay and process flexibility. However, what is largely missing from the existing literature is an analysis of how contract conditions, together with individuals' activation obligations, shape how they are targeted at the street level. Drawing on a study conducted over eight years with agencies in Australia's quasi-market for employment services, this paper argues that the changes to the contracts for governing this market changed how Australian single mothers were targeted by employment services. Over time there was a shift away from making-up single-parent clients as a distinct, vulnerable target group and a shift towards viewing them in terms of risk categories described within the agencies’ contracts.
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Van Thiel, Sandra, and Amanda Smullen. "Principals and Agents, or Principals and Stewards? Australian Arms Length Agencies’ Perceptions of Arm’s Length Government Instruments." Public Performance & Management Review 44, no. 4 (February 11, 2021): 758–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2021.1881803.
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Polman, Daniel. "Participation of Implementing Agencies in European Administrative Networks." JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 58, no. 4 (January 29, 2020): 818–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12990.
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Penman, T. D., and B. A. Cirulis. "Cost effectiveness of fire management strategies in southern Australia." International Journal of Wildland Fire 29, no. 5 (2020): 427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf18128.
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Fire-management agencies invest significant resources to reduce the impacts of future fires. There has been increasing public scrutiny over how agencies allocate fire-management budgets and, in response, agencies are looking to use quantitative risk-based approaches to make decisions about expenditure in a more transparent manner. Advances in fire-simulation software and computing capacity of fire-agency staff have meant that fire simulators have been increasingly used for quantitative fire-risk analysis. Here we analyse the cost trade-offs of future fire management in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding areas by combining fire simulation with Bayesian Decision Networks. We compare potential future-management approaches considering prescribed burning, suppression and fire exclusion. These data combined costs of treatment and impacts on assets to undertake a quantitative risk analysis. The proposed approach for fuel treatment in ACT and New South Wales (NSW) provided the greatest reduction in risk and the most cost-effective approach to managing fuels in this landscape. Past management decisions have reduced risk in the landscape and the legacy of these treatments will last for at least 3 years. However, an absence of burning will result in an increased risk from fire in this landscape.
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Hunt, Valerie H., Larra Rucker, and Brinck Kerr. "Two Tales of Cities: Revisiting Sex-Based Occupational Segregation in U.S. Municipal Bureaucracies, 1991-2015." Public Personnel Management 49, no. 2 (June 12, 2019): 171–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091026019854467.
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Drawing upon 24 years (1991-2015) of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data, we ask whether sex-based occupational segregation among professional and administrative employees in municipal bureaucracies is related to agency policy missions. We evaluate occupational segregation using two different benchmarks, 30% women and 50% women. At the 30% threshold in distributive and regulatory agencies, our findings suggest erosion of glass walls among professional workforces, but widespread occupational segregation among administrative workforces. At the 50% benchmark, we find a different story. Most cities reach or exceed gender parity in redistributive agencies; however, we observe widespread occupational segregation among administrative and professional workforces in distributive and regulatory agencies. Patterns of sex-based occupational segregation are related to agency policy missions. Analyses of glass walls should not be based on a single benchmark. One option is to supplement evaluations using the customary 30% threshold with evaluations employing a threshold of 50%, or true gender parity.
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DeSisto, Marco, Jillian Cavanagh, and Timothy Bartram. "Bushfire investigations in Australia." Leadership & Organization Development Journal 41, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 177–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lodj-07-2018-0270.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of collective leadership in emergency management organisations. More specifically, the authors investigate the conditions that enable or prevent collective leadership amongst key actors in the emergency management network in bushfire investigations. We also examine how chief investigators facilitate the conditions to effectively distribute leadership and the role of social networks within this process. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative case study approach was undertaken, and 18 semi-structured interviews were carried out with chief investigators, 6 at each of three agencies in Australia. A framework for understanding collective leadership (Friedrich et al., 2016) was used to examine key leadership constructs, baseline leadership and outcomes relative to bushfire investigations. Findings Findings demonstrate that there is no evidence of collective leadership at the network level of bushfire investigations. There is mixed evidence of collective leadership within bushfire investigation departments, with the Arson Squad being the only government agency to engage in collective leadership. The authors found evidence that government bureaucracy and mandated protocols inhibited the ability of formal leaders to distribute leadership, gauge a clear understanding of the level of skill and expertise amongst chief investigators and poor communication that inhibited knowledge of investigations. Research limitations/implications The study was limited to three bushfire investigative agencies. A future study will be carried out with other stakeholders, such as fire investigators and firefighters in the field. Practical implications For the government, emergency management agencies and other stakeholders, a key enabler of collective leadership within the emergency management network is the presence of a formal leader within a network. That leader has the authority and political ability to distribute leadership to other experts. Social implications The paper contributes to developing a better understanding of the efficacy and challenges associated with the application of collective leadership theory in a complex government bureaucracy. There are positive implications for the safety of firefighters, the protection of the broader community, their properties and livestock. Originality/value The authors address the lack of literature on effective leadership processes amongst emergency management agencies. The paper contributes to extending collective leadership theory by unpacking the processes through which leadership is distributed to team members and the role of institutions (i.e. fire investigation bureaucracy) on social networks within this integrative process. The authors provide new insights into the practice of collective leadership in complex bureaucratic organisations.
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Полянський, А. О. "THE PLACE OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW STANDARDS IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM PRINCIPLES OF INTERACTION OF JUDICIAL EXPERT INSTITUTIONS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES." Juridical science, no. 3(105) (March 30, 2020): 258–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.32844/2222-5374-2020-105-3.33.
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The relevance of the article is that the effectiveness and efficiency of interaction between forensic agencies and law enforcement agencies depends on many factors, one of which is a properly "constructed" system of legal acts. At the same time, the special nature of the interaction of these entities, the attraction of its content to the administrative and legal sphere, as well as the specifics of forensic institutions and law enforcement agencies in general necessitates a detailed review of legal principles in this area and determining the place of administrative and legal regulation. The purpose of the article is to establish a system of legal bases for the interaction of forensic institutions with law enforcement agencies, as well as to determine the place of administrative and legal regulation among them. It is established that the legal basis of interaction of forensic institutions with law enforcement agencies is a system of regulations and their provisions governing the legal status of forensic institutions and law enforcement agencies, as well as the content and procedure of interaction of these entities. It is proved that administrative-legal regulation is a type of branch of the general-legal category of legal regulation, which occurs with the help of administrative law and determines the impact of law on public relations of a special nature arising from the activities of public administration. That is, we are talking about the relationship of power and management influence that prevails in the work of public authorities, local governments and so on. This is a purposeful, comprehensive, streamlining impact of law on public relations in the sphere of government, which occurs through the rules of administrative law, which are part of the system of legal principles outlined above. It is emphasized that the legal basis for the interaction of forensic institutions and law enforcement agencies have an administrative and legal basis, which is expressed in a large number of rules of administrative law, enshrined in regulations of various legal force. This situation is due to the fact that the norms of this branch of law determine: the administrative and legal status of forensic institutions and law enforcement agencies; functions, powers and tasks assigned to law enforcement agencies and forensic institutions; mechanisms of interaction of forensic institutions and law enforcement agencies in performing their functions defined by law; organizational and practical goals of this interaction; etc.
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Ring, Peter Smith, and Howard Ball. "Federal Administrative Agencies: Essays on Power and Politics." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 4, no. 3 (1985): 469. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3324242.
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Hall, Lavinia. "BENDING THE RULES: NEGOTIATING RULES IN ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES." Policy Studies Journal 16, no. 3 (March 1988): 533–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1988.tb01866.x.
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Zollers, Frances E. "Regulating technology: Can administrative agencies cope with technological change?" Journal of Technology Transfer 14, no. 1 (December 1989): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02372397.
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Buhaichuk, K. L. "Methods of public management in the National police of Ukraine." Law and Safety 69, no. 2 (December 26, 2018): 10–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.32631/pb.2018.2.01.
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The author of the article has studied general theoretical approaches to the content of the term of «method of activity». Based on the research of scientific works on the theory of state governance, administrative law, administrative management, public management, the author has formulated own definition of the concept of «methods of public management within the agencies of the National Police of Ukraine», which are methods and approaches of authoritative and management influence management applied by authorized entities within their competence aimed at streamlining the organizational structure of the system of the National Police of Ukraine, planning, preparation, development, execution and implementation of management decisions, organization of the work of the management apparatus, implementation of documentary, informational, personnel, psychological provision of the activities of the agencies and units of the National Police.
The classification of methods of public management within the National Police has been carried out and the features of their application in the management activities of police agencies and units have been highlighted.
Thus, the methods of public management within the National Police should be divided into 2 types: organizational and regulatory, organizational and administrative. Among organizational and administrative methods of public management, it is advisable to distinguish active and passive methods. In turn, organizational and regulatory methods should be divided into regulation and norming, which can be methodical and imperative by the nature of its implementation.
The methods of preparation, acceptance and execution of management decisions in the system of the National Police have been separately considered. These include: general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis), methods of sociological research, heuristic methods, methods of direct and indirect observation, methods of planning and forecasting, methods for modeling the situation and developing scenarios, statistical methods.
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Damanik, Ayu Zurlaini. "The Effect of Human Resources Competence, Incentives and Leadership on the Performance of Administrative Staff." Frontiers in Business and Economics 1, no. 2 (August 31, 2022): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.56225/finbe.v1i2.86.
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The echelon officials who served in the hospital of Dr. H. Kumpulan Pane Tebing Tinggi City is the State Civil Apparatus (ASN), as well as most of its administrative staffs. Echelon officials and administrative staffs often come from agencies outside the hospital. They have a lot to experience about hospital management which is much different from management in other agencies. This affects the performance of employees in the organization of the hospital. Therefore, the empowerment of administrative employees needs to be optimized. Thus, the current study seeks to examine the dominant factors influencing the performance of administrative staffs in UPTD RSUD Dr. H. Kumpulan Pane Tebing Tinggi City, namely HR competencies, incentives, and leadership. A total of 77 respondents have participated in this study through survey questionnaire and collected by using census method. This study uses three independent variables, namely HR competence, Incentives and Leadership and staff performance. The results showed that the HR competency, incentive and leadership partially influence on the performance of administrative staffs. HR competency, incentives and leadership simultaneously influence the performance of administrative staffs.
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Jarman, A. M. G., and A. Kouzmin. "Australian Metropolitan Development: Local Government Reform and Urban Growth into the 1990s." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 11, no. 2 (June 1993): 143–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c110143.
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During the past four decades, many national governments, both centralist and federal, have spent considerable resources on planning for improved types of human settlement. Sometimes, grand schemes of regional planning, ‘New Town’ development, vast subdivisional tracting, and, even, industrial policy have been prepared and implemented in the name of urban and metropolitan development. The developmental role of local councils, as governmental authorities, has been either understated or underutilized; often, both. Australian governments should now reflect upon past policies and, most particularly, reconsider the role of a proactive local government sector in future metropolitan and urban development. In general terms, a multigenerational model regarding Australian urban policy design is considered. The first three, and more conventional, generations consist of: (1) the local government ‘fragmentation’ dispute, whereby local authorities are regarded as being too small, parochial, and ineffective as planning institutions; (2) the ‘New Town’ period, involving centralized planning and funding; and (3) a consolidation era where many different types of corporate, multifocal authority agencies have been created. The fourth generation constitutes the governmentally approved multifunction polis (MFP): A unique Japanese–Australian vision of a 21st century technopolis. It is argued that a further, fifth, model needs to be considered in the context of Australia's continuing outer-(sub)urban development. A linear growth-linkage model is presented; one which enhances the role of local government planning and development near the various state-located capital cities.
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Standing, Craig, and Thandarayan Vasudavan. "Internet marketing strategies used by travel agencies in Australia." Journal of Vacation Marketing 6, no. 1 (January 1999): 21–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135676679900600104.
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Hunt, Valerie H., Larra Rucker, and Brinck Kerr. "You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, but You Still Have a Long Way to Go: Gender-Based Pay Inequality in U.S. State Bureaucracies, 1995-2015." Public Personnel Management 49, no. 4 (November 6, 2019): 571–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091026019886332.
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Previous research on gender-based inequality in public-sector state-level bureaucracies finds evidence of glass ceilings and glass walls; however, previous research does not evaluate these factors together, nor does this research extend beyond the late 1990s. This study uses newly available data from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)—data spanning from 1995 to 2015 that include the entire universe of female and male administrators—to evaluate this research question: Are gender-based pay disparities and glass walls among administrators in state-level bureaucracies related to the policy/program missions of state agencies? This study observes administrative-level gender-based pay disparities in all state agency types. Furthermore, this study finds evidence of occupational segregation or glass walls in distributive and regulatory agencies, but not in redistributive agencies. The findings indicate some progress for women; however, as recently as 2015, U.S. state bureaucracies, on average, did not achieve gender equity among their administrative ranks.
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Carnevale, David G. "Florida's Senior Management System: Performance in a Decentralized Administrative Context." Public Personnel Management 18, no. 1 (March 1989): 65–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009102608901800106.
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This article examines Florida's Senior Management System (SMS) and outlines substantial shortcomings in its operations. Several of the system's problems resulted in the complete demise of the SMS. Recent efforts to reform the SMS have been initiated by the Florida legislature. However, the author argues that insufficient attention has been paid to the possible relationship between the SMS's deficiencies and the decentralized administrative context within which it must operate. The author recommends the development of bridging mechanisms between Florida's central personnel agency and the executive agencies if system-wide objectives are to be achieved.
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Curtis, Joyce A., Daniel D'Angelo, Matthew R. Hallowell, Timothy A. Henkel, and Keith R. Molenaar. "Enterprise Risk Management for Transportation Agencies." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2271, no. 1 (January 2012): 57–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2271-07.
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Risk management is implicit in transportation business practices. Administrators, planners, and engineers coordinate many organizational and technical resources to manage transportation network performance. Transportation agencies manage some of the largest and highest-valued public assets and budgets in federal, state, and local governments. It is the agencies' corporate responsibility to set clear strategic goals and objectives to manage these assets so economic growth and livability of their regions improves and the public gets the best value. Risks can affect an agency's ability to meet its goals and objectives. As network and delivery managers, these agencies must identify risks, assess the possible impacts, develop plans to manage the risks, and monitor the effectiveness of their actions. This paper presents the results of (a) a comprehensive literature review, (b) a state-of-the-practice survey of 43 U.S. transportation agencies, and (c) seven case studies from leading transportation organizations in Australia, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Scotland. The paper concludes with recommendations for achieving enterprise risk management in U.S. highway agencies. Recommendations pertain to formalizing enterprise risk management approaches, embedding risk management in existing business processes, using risk management to build trust with transportation stakeholders, defining leadership and organizational responsibilities for risk management, identifying risk owners, supporting risk allocation strategies, and reexamining existing policies, processes, and standards through rigorous risk management analysis.
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Zaletel, Metka, and Irena Križman. "Integrated approach together with administrative agencies to diminish response burden in enterprises." Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe 23, no. 1 (July 12, 2006): 69–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/sju-2006-23107.
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Iglin, Aleksei Vladimirovich. "Administrative mechanisms for resolving individual labour disputes in foreign countries." SHS Web of Conferences 118 (2021): 03011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202111803011.
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According to international labor standards, the labor-management system covers all public administration bodies responsible for and/or involved in labor-management, whether they are ministerial departments or government agencies, including semipublic, regional, or local agencies, or any other form of decentralized administration, and any institutional framework for coordinating the activities of such bodies and for consultation and participation of employers and employees and their organization. In this regard, dispute resolution mechanisms through administrative departments and agencies, labor inspections, and voluntary compliance are most pronounced. The purpose of the study was to conduct a comprehensive analysis of administrative mechanisms for resolving individual labor disputes in foreign countries; to draw conclusions about the effectiveness, prospects, and legal clarity of coordination of labor disputes. When conducting research the author relies on foreign doctrine, the practice of the subjects involved in labor relations, acts of foreign legislation. Research methods: a dialectical approach to the knowledge of administrative mechanisms, allowing analyzing them in their practical development and functioning in the context of coordination of labor legal relations. The comparative legal method and dialectics determined the choice of specific research methods: comparative and formal-legal. The functions, jurisdiction, and procedures of individual labor dispute resolution mechanisms and labor inspectorates are the subject of comprehensive research because of their effectiveness in protecting workers’ rights. The article provides a detailed comparative legal analysis of the specifics of dispute resolution through administrative departments and agencies, the role of labor inspections/law enforcement, and access to justice for workers in unclear or hidden employment relationships. On the basis of a large array of regulative sources, the author concludes about the importance of administrative mechanisms in the proper enforcement of labor laws abroad.
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Nchukwe, Friday Francis, and Kehinde David Adejuwon. "Agencification of Public Service Delivery in Developing Societies: Experiences of Pakistan and Tanzania Agency Models." Africa’s Public Service Delivery and Performance Review 2, no. 3 (September 1, 2014): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/apsdpr.v2i3.61.
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Agencification is not a new phenomenon in the public sector. However, since 1980s in developing societies, not only the number of new agencies has gone up but, the existing agencies have also been revitalized under the rubric of New Public Management capsulated in World Bank/IMF’s guided governance and administrative reforms. These agencies have been created in an administrative system which has weak political institutions but well entrenched bureaucracy with strong colonial bureaucratic traditions such as centralization of power exercised by a class of senior bureaucrats occupying top positions in federal ministries. The article examines agencification in developing countries with particular reference to Pakistan and Tanzania agency model. It noted that agencification in developing countries was rarely, if ever, pursued within a systemic conceptual and legal framework, but agencies are often seen as an alternative to already existing state-owned companies which are plagued with corruption. The article therefore draws some observations and remedial actions for improvement in the performance of public sector organisations in developing countries in general and Africa in particular. It concludes that while most government ministries in developing societies cannot trigger public sector transformation due to a lack of performance improvement, agencies are unlikely to do so because of the particular autonomy of the administrative systems in which they are embedded. <br /><br />
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Berg, Emily, Johgho Im, Zhengyuan Zhu, Colin Lewis-Beck, and Jie Li. "Integration of statistical and administrative agricultural data from Namibia." Statistical Journal of the IAOS 37, no. 2 (June 3, 2021): 557–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/sji-200634.
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Statistical and administrative agencies often collect information on related parameters. Discrepancies between estimates from distinct data sources can arise due to differences in definitions, reference periods, and data collection protocols. Integrating statistical data with administrative data is appealing for saving data collection costs, reducing respondent burden, and improving the coherence of estimates produced by statistical and administrative agencies. Model based techniques, such as small area estimation and measurement error models, for combining multiple data sources have benefits of transparency, reproducibility, and the ability to provide an estimated uncertainty. Issues associated with integrating statistical data with administrative data are discussed in the context of data from Namibia. The national statistical agency in Namibia produces estimates of crop area using data from probability samples. Simultaneously, the Namibia Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Forestry obtains crop area estimates through extension programs. We illustrate the use of a structural measurement error model for the purpose of synthesizing the administrative and survey data to form a unified estimate of crop area. Limitations on the available data preclude us from conducting a genuine, thorough application. Nonetheless, our illustration of methodology holds potential use for a general practitioner.
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Кікінчук, В. Ю. "Concepts, features and types of administrative procedures." Law and Safety 77, no. 2 (June 24, 2020): 64–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.32631/pb.2020.2.08.
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Administrative procedures that are in force in Ukraine have been analyzed; their concepts, features and types have been defined. It has been indicated that understanding the content and essence of administrative procedures is a kind of success in qualitative cognition of the entire system of administrative law.
The semantics of the term of “administrative procedure” has been specified. It has been offered to understand it as the procedure of administrative proceedings determined by the current legislation of Ukraine.
Administrative and judicial, management procedures have been characterized. It has been emphasized that administrative procedures by their functional purpose are inextricably linked with management activities, as well as with the exercise of power.
The classification of administrative procedures by their nature, types and purpose has been offered.
It has been noted that clearly defined administrative procedures will greatly help the government in establishing a regime of maximum assistance to government agencies and public associations. In this way, the government will be able to ensure the maintenance of the rule of law in Ukraine, which inevitably leads to increased efficiency of the entire state system. It has been stated that the norms that determine administrative procedures should become a reliable foundation for the positive legal activity of the subjects of power.
The author has substantiated the conclusion that if the authorities comply with certain requirements for the content and form of administrative procedures (their clarity, unambiguity and focus on effective protection of human and civil rights, freedoms and interests), the possibility of introducing such a management and decision-making system there will be arbitrariness, corruption or inefficiency. To some extent, such actions will also contribute to the establishment of better interaction both between government agencies and between government and citizens.
The author has provided recommendations, with the help of which it is possible to bring the functional purpose of administrative procedures to a fundamentally new level. It is also important to consider the current administrative procedures through the prism of their effectiveness in the changing realities of reforming national legislation.
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Moulis, Daniel, and Alistair Bridges. "Administrative and Judicial Review of Anti-dumping Measures in Australia." Global Trade and Customs Journal 7, Issue 5 (May 1, 2012): 200–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/gtcj2012026.
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This collection of articles analyses the problems with judicial review of trade remedy determinations in ten user countries - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States - and is a follow-up to similar studies in 2004 and 2007 respectively. Each article succinctly describes the major problems with judicial review in their jurisdictions covering the period from 2001 to 2010 with an aim to examine the effectiveness of judicial review (and/or, where applicable, review by an administrative tribunal) of trade remedy determinations in the light of Article 13 of the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement. Two problems have been underlined: (1) the excessively long duration of the judicial review procedures; and (2) the considerable deference given to the administrative authorities on substantive issues by the courts typically on account of the technicality of the anti-dumping determinations and the absence of expert judges versed with trade remedy laws. These two problems have deeply impacted the effectiveness of the judicial review systems in most jurisdictions investigated and the situation is far from what is envisaged in Article 13 of the ADA. Both problems are related to the absence of specialized courts and chambers with judges trained in trade remedy laws. In contrast, the United States and India - the only two countries that have specialized courts - have effective judicial review systems. For the ten year period covered by this study, the ten countries investigated can be divided into two groups as regards the recourse to judicial review of anti-dumping determinations. One group comprises the European Union, India, Mexico and the United States where judicial review of anti-dumping determinations has been frequent. The second group comprises the remaining countries namely Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Indonesia and South Africa where judicial reviews have been more limited. In fact the judicial review systems for trade remedy determinations in countries such as China and Indonesia are in the early stages of development.
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Koh, Steven Arrigg. "United States Administrative Protective Order Law and Sanctions: Accessing Information Through Agencies." Global Trade and Customs Journal 2, Issue 11/12 (November 1, 2007): 369–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/gtcj2007045.
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Page, Lindsay C., Jon Fullerton, Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Antoniya Owens, Sarah R. Cohodes, Martin R. West, and Sarah Glover. "The Strategic Data Project's Strategic Performance Indicators." Education Finance and Policy 8, no. 3 (July 2013): 435–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00105.
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Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs) are summary measures derived from parallel, descriptive analyses conducted across educational agencies. The SPIs are designed to inform agency management and efforts to improve student outcomes. We developed the SPIs to reveal patterns common across partner agencies, to highlight exceptions to those patterns, and to provide tools for educational agencies to understand their own successes and challenges. We present two examples of SPI briefs and highlight specific steps partner agencies have taken in response to such analyses. Our goal is that, with data, the SPIs will catalyze educational agencies to engage in deep investigation. If educational systems must rely on academic researchers to make progress on core management challenges, progress will be slow. The ability to use and analyze administrative data must be integrated into the everyday management of educational systems, much as it has been in many other sectors of the modern economy.
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Ghawana, T., and S. Zlatanova. "DISASTER MANAGEMENT: AN INTEGRAL PART OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM AND LAND ADMINISTRATION-MANAGEMENT SYSTEM." ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences III-8 (June 7, 2016): 13–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-iii-8-13-2016.
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Disaster management is a multidisciplinary field, which requires a general coordination approach as well as specialist approaches. Science and Technology system of a country allows to create policies and execution of technical inputs required which provide services for the specific types of disasters management. Land administration and management agencies, as the administrative and management bodies, focus more on the coordination of designated tasks to various agencies responsible for their dedicated roles. They get help from Scientific and technical inputs & policies which require to be implemented in a professional manner. The paper provides an example of such integration from India where these two systems complement each other with their dedicated services. Delhi, the Capital of India, has such a disaster management system which has lot of technical departments of government which are mandated to provide their services as Emergency Service Functionaries. Thus, it is shown that disaster management is a job which is an integral part of Science & Technology system of a country while being implemented primarily with the help of land administration and management agencies. It is required that new policies or mandates for the Science and technology organizations of government should give a primary space to disaster management
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Spicker, Paul. "Five types of complexity." Benefits: A Journal of Poverty and Social Justice 13, no. 1 (February 2005): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.51952/vqie3724.
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This article describes five types of complexity in the operation of social security benefits. The first is intrinsic complexity: some benefits are complex in their concept, structure or operation. The second is extrinsic: systems become complicated when several benefits or agencies have to be dealt with. Third, there are complex rules. Some are imposed for administrative reasons, but there may also be some ‘conditionality’, including moral conditions and rules about rationing. Fourth, there are complex management systems, including the proliferation of agencies and the problems of information management. Finally, there is complexity that arises through the situation of claimants. Benefits which try to adjust to people’s changing circumstances require elaborate rules and procedures, and they are always slightly out of step. If we want to simplify benefits, we need to focus on conditionality, administrative rules and management procedures. Some aspects of complexity, however, are unavoidable.
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Meyrick, Julian, Tully Barnett, and Robert Phiddian. "The conferral of value: the role of reporting processes in the assessment of culture." Media International Australia 171, no. 1 (September 24, 2018): 80–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x18798704.
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This article considers the role of reporting processes in the assessment of arts and culture and argues that a determination of an organisation’s or event’s value is the result of a chain of administrative and political interactions. The ‘conferral of value’ on a particular cultural activity may be seen as the outcome of a multi-stakeholder dialogue involving governments, funding agencies, cultural organisations and individual artists. The article emerges from a mixed-methods research project, Laboratory Adelaide: The Value of Culture, underway at Flinders University. The project works with three industry partners: the State Library of South Australia, the State Theatre Company of South Australia and the Adelaide Festival. A sketch of the history of the problem of culture’s value is given, together with the historical background of the arts in South Australia. The article concludes with a brief overview of two innovative reporting frameworks – sustainability reporting (GRI) and Integrated Reporting (IR) – and the potential gains for the cultural sector in the reporting reforms now happening in South Australia across all public bodies at a state government level.
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Huang, Yasheng. "Administrative Monitoring in China." China Quarterly 143 (September 1995): 828–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000015071.
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During the reform era, there have been two important developments in China's administrative system. First, there has been a moderate degree of administrative decentralization in the area of cadre appointment. Prior to 1983, the central Party authorities – formally the central Organization Department (OD) – were responsible for appointing cadres down to the bureau level; the 1983–84 reforms delegated bureau-level appointments to ministries and provinces. As a result, the Centre is responsible for appointing fewer cadres than before; as of 1983, it had 7,000 cadres on its management list, a reduction of some 6,000 from the 1980 list. The second development is that the Centre has sought to regulate the appointment decisions that it no longer controls directly and to monitor officials’ performance and conduct. To this end, new and increasingly detailed procedures have been laid out to guide appointment decisions and there have been efforts to strengthen the specialized monitoring agencies.
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Blixt, Carley, and Konstantinos Kirytopoulos. "Challenges and competencies for project management in the Australian public service." International Journal of Public Sector Management 30, no. 3 (April 10, 2017): 286–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijpsm-08-2016-0132.
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Purpose Public sector projects still fail to meet delivery expectations, and the lack of significant project management experience in the Australian public service (APS) has been identified as a contributing factor. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the importance of competencies required for delivering public sector projects, as well as challenges faced by the project managers when operating in a public context. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative semi-structured interviews were used to enlighten the social and operating construct in APS. In parallel, a quantitative survey was used to determine the relative importance of various competencies to effective project delivery. Findings The research concludes that communication, accountability, business alignment, scope and deliverables, change, and project and program orientation are the most important competencies in APS project delivery. Furthermore, there is evidence that the operating environment acts as a barrier to successful project delivery, noting that it does not let project management practice deploy its full potential for increased effectiveness and efficiency. Practical implications The research findings noted that the specific needs, values and functions of project management in the APS are not well defined, and therefore there were limited criteria against which public sector project management competencies could be designed and measured. Originality/value This empirical research contributes to the open dialogue of improving efficiency in project management within the APS context. The findings point to the conflict between the operational nature of APS agencies and their project activities, and how they struggle to define themselves as project organizations rather than lack of appreciation to individual competencies.
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Johnson, Ann M. "Legislation induced organizational inefficiency: The case of the federal reserve and the dodd-frank." International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior 18, no. 4 (March 1, 2015): 434–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijotb-18-04-2015-b004.
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In 2010 the Dodd-Frank Law was passed in response to the 2008 recession. However, questions arose regarding the federal agenciesʼ ability to regulate the economy in general and the utility of financial regulations in particular. This work examines and discusses the challenges associated with the uncertainty of the administrative environment in which agencies have been drafting regulations in response to Dodd-Frank. A lack of administrative clarity as a result of Congressional politics led to regulatory capture and operational paralysis on the part of federal agencies tasked with implementing the Act. In this type of environment it becomes very difficult for regulatory agencies to be effective and competent when regulations have not all been drafted yet and legislation is continuously changing. This article critically examines the recent proposed changes to the Dodd-Frank Law. Specifically, it delineates the manner in which the legislative instability has impacted the Federal Reserve Bankʼs capacity to effectively implement the necessary rules for mitigating economic risks.