| Description |
1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of case studies -- Introduction: Why The Australian Policy Handbook? -- The Story of this Book -- Critical reception -- This Seventh Edition -- 1. Why policy matters -- Disruption: a shifting policymaking environment -- Defining policy -- Policy as authoritative choice -- Policy as hypothesis -- Policy as objective -- Policy as public value -- Understanding policy making -- 2. The institutions of public policy -- The Australian system of government -- The executive -- Cabinet |
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Public servants -- Ministerial advisers -- The opposition -- A map of government -- Consultants -- The third sector -- Social movements -- The fourth estate-the media -- Lobbyists and stakeholders -- System integrity -- A functional map of government -- Government as politics -- Government as policy -- Government as administration -- Bringing the players together -- Coordination through routines -- 3. The Australian policy cycle -- Alternatives to the policy cycle -- Policymaking vacuums -- An Australian policy cycle -- The policy cycle and the policy ecosystem -- Good process and good policy |
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4. Identifying issues -- The policy agenda -- Issue drivers -- Agenda shaping from within -- Which issues make the agenda? -- The issue attention cycle -- Case 4.1: Shark attacks in Western Australia -- Identifying issues -- Defining problems -- Case 4.2: Wicked problems-child protection -- Non-decisions -- Issue identification skills -- 5. Policy analysis -- Who does policy analysis? -- Rationality -- A sequence for policy analysis -- Case 5.1: When good policy analysis may not be enough-the national occupational licensing system -- Evidence-based policy -- The analyst's toolkit |
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Agreement: an analytic tool -- Why analysis? -- Case 5.2: Tasmania develops a policy to address family violence -- 6. Policy instruments -- Classifying policy instruments -- The Australian policy context -- A taxonomy of Australian policy instruments -- Policy through advocacy -- Policy through law -- Policy through money -- Policy through direct government action -- Policy through behavioural techniques -- Case 6.1: The Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government -- Policy through network -- Choosing a policy instrument -- 7. Engagement -- The imperative for engagement |
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Advantages and challenges -- Different types of engagement -- Case 7.1: A study in partnership-parks policy in the Northern Territory -- New directions in engagement -- Designing an engagement process -- Engagement as participation -- 8. Coordination -- Coherence -- Consistency -- Consultation and efficiency -- Central agencies -- Other consultation within government -- Coordination comments -- Coordination in departments -- Joined-up government -- Case 8.1: The Education First Youth Foyers -- Coordination and politics -- 9. Decision -- Cabinet routines -- What goes to cabinet? |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Briefing ministers |
| Reading List |
AIP230 prescribed text 2024
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ball, Sarah
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Bridgman, Peter
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Davis, Glyn
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Threlfall, David
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| ISBN |
9781000810301 |
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1000810305 |
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