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Collaborative Governance: A new era of public policy in Australia?

Edited by Janine O’Flynn and John Wanna

ISBN 9781921536403 $24.95 (GST inclusive)
ISBN 9781921536410 (Online)
Published December 2008
Co-published with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government

Collaborative Governance

Collaboration has emerged as a central concept in public policy circles in Australia and a panacea to the complex challenges facing Australia. But is this really the cure-all it seems to be? In this edited collection we present scholarly and practitioner perspectives on the drivers, challenges, prospects and promise of collaboration. The papers, first presented at the 2007 ANZSOG Conference, draw on the extensive experience of the contributors in either trying to enact collaboration, or studying the processes of this phenomenon. Together the collection provides important insights into the potential of collaboration, but also the fiercely stubborn barriers to adopting more collaborative approaches to policy and implementation. Continue reading

The Power of Economic Ideas: The origins of Keynesian macroeconomic management in interwar Australia 1929–39

Alex Millmow

ISBN 9781921666261 $24.95 (GST inclusive)
ISBN 9781921666278 (Online)
Published May 2010

The Power of Economic Ideas

Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulded to further the common good though it might need a leap in mental outlook, a whole new zeitgeist to be able do do. This book is about a transformation in Australian economists’ thought and ideas during the interwar period. It focuses upon the interplay between economic ideas, players and policy sometimes in the public arena. In a decade marked by depression, recovery and international political turbulence Australian economists moved from a classical orthodox economic position to that of a cautious Keynesianism by 1939. Continue reading