Title Economic rationalism in Canberra : a nation-building state changes its mind / Michael Pusey

Published Cambridge ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1991 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991

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Description ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Introduction: Canberra in the balance -- Part I. Canberra: A State Apparatus Changes Its Mind: 1. Images of contemporary Australia -- 2. Profiles of Canberra's political administrators -- 3. The inner triangle -- 4. The instrumentation of state power -- Part II. State and Society: Reflections, Refractions, Reductions: 5. 'Rationalisation' and modernity: what has happened to the state's deliberative capacity? -- 6. Integrity under stress: the Lucky Country enters the world economy -- Appendices -- Notes and references -- Index Summary Presents an understanding of economic rationalism in the Australian context, based on a detailed study of Canberra bureaucrats through interviews with more that 200 members of the elite Senior Executive Service in key departments of the Canberra state apparatus Analysis Australia Public administration Australia Australia overseas comparisons Economic policy Economic rationalism Federal issue Key item Organisational change Public administration Public service Reform Senior Executive Service Social policy Statistics Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-300) and index Notes Also available online English Subject Civil service -- Australia. SUBJECT Australia -- Economic policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114310 Australia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 Australia -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100478 Australia -- Economic policy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114310 -- 1976-1990 Australia -- Economic policy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114310 -- 1990- Australia -- Economic policy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114310 -- 1990-2001 Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009600 Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 1945-1965 Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 1965-1990 Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 1976-1990 LC no. 91002950 ISBN 0521334225 0521336619 (paperback)

ABBREV TI Economic Rationalism in Canberra

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