Jonathan Boston
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3717524 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jonathan Boston |
| NOMBRES | Jonathan |
| APELLIDO | Boston |
| FIRMA | BOSTON J |
| AFILIACIONES | Victoria University of Wellington |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 210 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Preparing for Government
This article reviews a recent report by the Institute for Government on how opposition parties in the United Kingdom should prepare for power. The article comments on the distinctive constitutional context in the UK regarding government transitions, the provisions in The Cabinet Manual on access by opposition parties to the civil service prior to a general election, how opposition parties can make effective use of these access talks, and the spec…
From Social Protection to Social Investment in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand both have well-established and comprehensive welfare states. Prompted partly by the social and economic consequences of the Great Depression, large-scale and often complex administrative systems and structures were created to provide social protection efficiently and effectively. This chapter discusses the nature, origins, and evolution of these institutional arrangements, focusing on the state’s various roles as a funde…
Section Overview
This chapter provides an overview of the Australasian section of the Handbook. The chapters in this section cover four broad topics: the historical evolution of social provision and recent social trends; institutional and operational themes; financing arrangements; and innovation and evaluation. As highlighted in this section, there are both remarkable similarities but also important differences in the design, administration, and evolution of soc…
Designing a funding framework for the impacts of slow-onset climate change — insights from recent experiences with planned relocation
Assessing the options for combatting democratic myopia and safeguarding long-term interests
Future-Proofing the State
This book focuses on the challenges facing governments and communities in preparing for and responding to major crises — especially the hard to predict yet unavoidable natural disasters ranging from earthquakes and tsunamis to floods and bushfires, as well as pandemics and global economic crises
Child Poverty in New Zealand
A combination of policy changes and wider socio-economic trends led to a dramatic increase in child poverty in New Zealand during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Higher rates of child poverty have now become embedded in the system and show little sign of resolving themselves. For a country which once took pride in being comparatively egalitarian and, more particularly, a great place to bring up children, the tolerance of much greater child povert…
New Zealand's Neoliberal Reforms
Multi-party governance
In democracies where no party enjoys a parliamentary majority, various multi-party governance arrangements have evolved to accommodate the respective interests of the parties involved. Such arrangements reflect, among other things, the political imperatives facing the parties in question, in particular the quest for an effective and durable government (which typically requires significant inter-party discipline) and the competing desire for parti…
Reflections on “New Political Governance in Westminster Systems
Government formation in New Zealand under MMP
This article examines the theory and practice of government formation, with particular reference to the experience of New Zealand since the introduction of the mixed member proportional (MMP) system in the mid-1990s. As predicted by coalition theory, virtually all the coalitions and related multi-party governance arrangements under MMP have been ideologically connected. But contrary to certain theories, they have not all been minimum-winning in n…
Public Policy
Ethics is a vigorously contested field. There are many competing moral frameworks, and different views about how normative considerations should inform the art and craft of governmental policy making. What is not in dispute, however, is that ethics matters. The ethical framework adopted by policy analysts and decision makers not only shapes how policy problems are defined
Public Policy
Ethics is a vigorously contested field. There are many competing moral frameworks, and different views about how normative considerations should inform the art and craft of governmental policy making. What is not in dispute, however, is that ethics matters. The ethical framework adopted by policy analysts and decision makers not only shapes how policy problems are defined, framed and analysed, but also influences which ethical principles and valu…
Political Equality and the Regulation of Election Spending by Parallel Campaigners
The regulation of political finance, including the funding of political parties and election campaigns, remains contentious in many democracies. A particular focus of debate has been the regulation of ‘parallel campaigners’– that is, non-candidate and non-party political actors – wanting to influence the election outcome by bringing to bear their economic resources. Drawing on both recent unsuccessful and current attempts at reforming the regulat…
Developing a Long-Term Climate Change Mitigation Strategy
Various governments around the world are in the process of developing long-term climate change mitigation strategies. The British Labour government has been particularly active. In March 2007 it published a draft Climate Change Bill which provides a new legal framework designed to underpin efforts to mitigate climate change. Following public consultation and parliamentary scrutiny, a revised Bill was introduced into Parliament in November 2007; t…
Natural because it had become just that.’ Path dependence in pre-electoral pacts and government formation
Formal models of government formation frequently find their predictions confounded in the real world and/or fail to explain empirical observations, leading to calls for new approaches. The formation of New Zealand's 1999 minority coalition government—one which ran counter to the predictions of all conventional coalition theories—illustrates the potential contribution of path dependence to those approaches, particularly when we are trying to expla…
Explaining the demise of the national–New Zealand first coalition
This article considers the fall of New Zealand's first coalition government under the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) electoral system, through the prism of a ‘unified’ model of Cabinet durability. This model incorporates both the ‘structural attributes’ of the government at the time of its formation, as well as the stochastic ‘critical events’ that occur over its lifetime. However, the conventional attributes of the National–New Zealand First co…
An Initial Assessment of the Consequences of MMP in New Zealand
The purpose is to provide an initial assessment of the impact of the introduction of the mixed‐member proportional (MMP) electoral system on the New Zealand political system, especially with regard to the normative criteria established by the New Zealand Royal Commission on the Electoral System. However, since the normative nature of these criteria may limit the breadth of any analysis (they are not necessarily comprehensive and unambiguous, nor …
The Impact of Proportional Representation on Government Effectiveness
It is often claimed that proportional representation (PR) undermines government effectiveness, including decisional efficacy, fiscal prudence, electoral responsiveness and accountability. Drawing on New Zealand's experience since the introduction of a mixed‐member proportional (MMP) electoral system in 1996, this article examines the impact of the new voting system on government effectiveness. Although government durability has been substantially…
The Budget Process in New Zealand
In New Zealand, as in most countries, the budget is at the heart of the political process. This paper examines the impact of the introduction of a mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral system in the mid-1990s on budget decision-making by focusing on two dimensions. First, it seeks to compare the budget process across five distinct periods of government. Second, it examines changes to two distinct stages of the budget process: the executive ph…
The New Zealand Political Change Project
Targeting Social Expenditure in New Zealand
This paper provides a brief account of how social expenditure in New Zealand has been targeted (i.e. means‐tested) since the late nineteenth century, outlines the policy framework at the dawn of the new millennium, and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the current targeting regime. It is argued that the existing policy settings are open to challenge on a number of counts. In particular, they are complex, inconsistent and relatively intrusi…
Public Management
Public Sector Management, Electoral Reform and the Future of the Contract State in New Zealand
The reforms to New Zealand's system of public sector management have attracted significant international interest since the mid‐to‐late 1980s. This article provides a brief description and analysis of some of the recent developments in New Zealand with respect to corporatisation, privatisation and contracting—out, and assesses the implications of the introduction of proportional representation in 1996 for the structure and management of the publi…
The Impact of Electoral Reform on the Public Service
October 1996 marked the beginning of a new era in New Zealand politics, with the advent of a system of proportional representation based on the German model. This article explores the impact of electoral reform on the public service. First, it summarises the extensive public sector reforms during the mid‐to‐late 1980s and considers the preparations undertaken by the public service for proportional representation. Second, it outlines the concerns …
Public management
Many countries have undertaken major programmes or public-sector reform in recent times, and none more extensively than New Zealand. Since the mid-1980s virtually every aspect of New Zealand's public sector has been restructured, giving rise to a new model of public management. Many of the reforms have won domestic and international acclaim; some have also been the subject of considerable controversy. Public Management: The New Zealand Model desc…
Assessing the options for combatting democratic myopia and safeguarding long-term interests
Multi-party governance
In democracies where no party enjoys a parliamentary majority, various multi-party governance arrangements have evolved to accommodate the respective interests of the parties involved. Such arrangements reflect, among other things, the political imperatives facing the parties in question, in particular the quest for an effective and durable government (which typically requires significant inter-party discipline) and the competing desire for parti…
Transforming New Zealand's Public Sector
Since its election in July 1984 the fourth Labour government in New Zealand has embarked upon the most radical and systematic reorganization of the state sector since the creation of a unified, non‐partisan, career‐oriented service in 1912. The reforms include the commercialization of many of the goods and services provided by state agencies, the turning of public trading enterprises into corporations, major administrative changes and the overhau…
The Problems of Policy Coordination
The problems of coordinating the development and implementation of public policy are legion. While such problems are most commonly associated with large federal systems, they can arise with equal force and complexity in small, highly centralized, unitary states such as New Zealand. This article has four main purposes. First, it briefly surveys some of the recent literature on the nature of coordination and the mechanisms for enhancing policy coor…
Why did New Zealand adopt German‐style proportional representation
Public cynicism with politics and politicians led ultimately to New Zealand's referendums on electoral systems
Assessing the Performance of Departmental Chief Executives
This article examines the new approach to specifying and assessing the performance of departmental chief executives in New Zealand introduced in 1988 by the fourth Labour government (1984–1990). Drawing on the findings of a series of interviews with ministers, chief executives and other senior public servants conducted between late 1989 and late 1991 by a number of researchers, the article outlines the origins and implementation of the new policy…
Child Poverty in New Zealand
A combination of policy changes and wider socio-economic trends led to a dramatic increase in child poverty in New Zealand during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Higher rates of child poverty have now become embedded in the system and show little sign of resolving themselves. For a country which once took pride in being comparatively egalitarian and, more particularly, a great place to bring up children, the tolerance of much greater child povert…
Reflections on “New Political Governance in Westminster Systems
Thatcherism and Rogernomics
(1987). Thatcherism and Rogernomics: Changing the Rules of the Game—Comparisons and Contrasts. Political Science: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 129-152
Electoral reform in New Zealand
The New Zealand general election of 1987
New Zealand's Neoliberal Reforms
Experimenting with coalition government
Advising the prime minister in New Zealand
Unlike many of their foreign counterparts, New Zealand Prime Ministers have been generally satisfied to maintain only meagre support and advisory services. Their main source of non‐bureaucratic policy advice since 1976 has been a small Advisory Group of about eight members located within the Prime Minister's Department This article examines the origins, functions and evolution of the Advisory Group during the past decade or so. In particular, it …
The Impact of Proportional Representation on Government Effectiveness
It is often claimed that proportional representation (PR) undermines government effectiveness, including decisional efficacy, fiscal prudence, electoral responsiveness and accountability. Drawing on New Zealand's experience since the introduction of a mixed‐member proportional (MMP) electoral system in 1996, this article examines the impact of the new voting system on government effectiveness. Although government durability has been substantially…
Grand Designs and Unpleasant Realities
Government formation in New Zealand under MMP
This article examines the theory and practice of government formation, with particular reference to the experience of New Zealand since the introduction of the mixed member proportional (MMP) system in the mid-1990s. As predicted by coalition theory, virtually all the coalitions and related multi-party governance arrangements under MMP have been ideologically connected. But contrary to certain theories, they have not all been minimum-winning in n…
Explaining the demise of the national–New Zealand first coalition
This article considers the fall of New Zealand's first coalition government under the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) electoral system, through the prism of a ‘unified’ model of Cabinet durability. This model incorporates both the ‘structural attributes’ of the government at the time of its formation, as well as the stochastic ‘critical events’ that occur over its lifetime. However, the conventional attributes of the National–New Zealand First co…
Enthusiasm and entropy
Assessment of New Zealand's new Additional Member/Mixed Member voting system one year after the first MMP election suggests that while parliament is more diverse politically and socially, parliamentary politics remains highly adversarial
By-Elections in New Zealand
(1980). By-Elections in New Zealand: An Overview. Political Science: Vol. 32, By-Elections, pp. 103-127
Developing a Long-Term Climate Change Mitigation Strategy
Various governments around the world are in the process of developing long-term climate change mitigation strategies. The British Labour government has been particularly active. In March 2007 it published a draft Climate Change Bill which provides a new legal framework designed to underpin efforts to mitigate climate change. Following public consultation and parliamentary scrutiny, a revised Bill was introduced into Parliament in November 2007; t…
Natural because it had become just that.’ Path dependence in pre-electoral pacts and government formation
Formal models of government formation frequently find their predictions confounded in the real world and/or fail to explain empirical observations, leading to calls for new approaches. The formation of New Zealand's 1999 minority coalition government—one which ran counter to the predictions of all conventional coalition theories—illustrates the potential contribution of path dependence to those approaches, particularly when we are trying to expla…
The Budget Process in New Zealand
In New Zealand, as in most countries, the budget is at the heart of the political process. This paper examines the impact of the introduction of a mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral system in the mid-1990s on budget decision-making by focusing on two dimensions. First, it seeks to compare the budget process across five distinct periods of government. Second, it examines changes to two distinct stages of the budget process: the executive ph…
Public Sector Management, Electoral Reform and the Future of the Contract State in New Zealand
The reforms to New Zealand's system of public sector management have attracted significant international interest since the mid‐to‐late 1980s. This article provides a brief description and analysis of some of the recent developments in New Zealand with respect to corporatisation, privatisation and contracting—out, and assesses the implications of the introduction of proportional representation in 1996 for the structure and management of the publi…
High level advisory groups
(1980). High level advisory groups: The case of the priorities review staff. Politics: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 186-196
By-Elections in New Zealand
(1980). By-Elections in New Zealand: An Overview. Political Science: Vol. 32, By-Elections, pp. 103-127
Transforming New Zealand's Public Sector
Since its election in July 1984 the fourth Labour government in New Zealand has embarked upon the most radical and systematic reorganization of the state sector since the creation of a unified, non‐partisan, career‐oriented service in 1912. The reforms include the commercialization of many of the goods and services provided by state agencies, the turning of public trading enterprises into corporations, major administrative changes and the overhau…
Thatcherism and Rogernomics
(1987). Thatcherism and Rogernomics: Changing the Rules of the Game—Comparisons and Contrasts. Political Science: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 129-152
Electoral reform in New Zealand
Advising the prime minister in New Zealand
Unlike many of their foreign counterparts, New Zealand Prime Ministers have been generally satisfied to maintain only meagre support and advisory services. Their main source of non‐bureaucratic policy advice since 1976 has been a small Advisory Group of about eight members located within the Prime Minister's Department This article examines the origins, functions and evolution of the Advisory Group during the past decade or so. In particular, it …
The New Zealand general election of 1987
New Zealand's Privatization Programme
Assessing the Performance of Departmental Chief Executives
This article examines the new approach to specifying and assessing the performance of departmental chief executives in New Zealand introduced in 1988 by the fourth Labour government (1984–1990). Drawing on the findings of a series of interviews with ministers, chief executives and other senior public servants conducted between late 1989 and late 1991 by a number of researchers, the article outlines the origins and implementation of the new policy…
The Problems of Policy Coordination
The problems of coordinating the development and implementation of public policy are legion. While such problems are most commonly associated with large federal systems, they can arise with equal force and complexity in small, highly centralized, unitary states such as New Zealand. This article has four main purposes. First, it briefly surveys some of the recent literature on the nature of coordination and the mechanisms for enhancing policy coor…
The Separation of Policy Advice From Operations
Financial Management Reform
This article explores the nature and impact of New Zealand's financial management reforms introduced by the fourth Labour Government (1984-90). These reforms, which were given legislative backing via the Public Finance Act 1989, are of interest not merely because of their scope and scale, but because of some of the concepts and principles which have fashioned their design and implementation. In particular, the article highlights the importance wh…
Grand Designs and Unpleasant Realities
Public management
Many countries have undertaken major programmes or public-sector reform in recent times, and none more extensively than New Zealand. Since the mid-1980s virtually every aspect of New Zealand's public sector has been restructured, giving rise to a new model of public management. Many of the reforms have won domestic and international acclaim; some have also been the subject of considerable controversy. Public Management: The New Zealand Model desc…
The Use of Contracting in the Public Sector—Recent New Zealand Experience
This research note examines the expanding use of contracting within the public sector in New Zealand. The term ‘contracting’ is interpreted broadly to include both external contracting (ie outsourcing) as well as the use of more explicit or formal ‘contracts’ within and between public sector organisations. No attention is given here to the separate, albeit related, processes of corporatisation, commercialisation and full privatisation (ie asset s…
Why did New Zealand adopt German‐style proportional representation
Public cynicism with politics and politicians led ultimately to New Zealand's referendums on electoral systems
Experimenting with coalition government
Linking strategy and performance
In recent decades, many governments have sought to improve their systems of strategic management and priority setting. Few of these attempts have met with unequivocal success. In particular, the systems for “whole-of-government strategizing” have not been well integrated into the ongoing budgetary processes and departmental performance management systems. In 1993—1994, as part of its comprehensive reforms of the public sector, the New Zealand gov…
Public Management
Public Sector Management, Electoral Reform and the Future of the Contract State in New Zealand
The reforms to New Zealand's system of public sector management have attracted significant international interest since the mid‐to‐late 1980s. This article provides a brief description and analysis of some of the recent developments in New Zealand with respect to corporatisation, privatisation and contracting—out, and assesses the implications of the introduction of proportional representation in 1996 for the structure and management of the publi…
The Impact of Electoral Reform on the Public Service
October 1996 marked the beginning of a new era in New Zealand politics, with the advent of a system of proportional representation based on the German model. This article explores the impact of electoral reform on the public service. First, it summarises the extensive public sector reforms during the mid‐to‐late 1980s and considers the preparations undertaken by the public service for proportional representation. Second, it outlines the concerns …
Enthusiasm and entropy
Assessment of New Zealand's new Additional Member/Mixed Member voting system one year after the first MMP election suggests that while parliament is more diverse politically and socially, parliamentary politics remains highly adversarial
What Do We Want Public Managers to Be? Comparing Reforms
Targeting Social Expenditure in New Zealand
This paper provides a brief account of how social expenditure in New Zealand has been targeted (i.e. means‐tested) since the late nineteenth century, outlines the policy framework at the dawn of the new millennium, and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the current targeting regime. It is argued that the existing policy settings are open to challenge on a number of counts. In particular, they are complex, inconsistent and relatively intrusi…
The New Zealand Political Change Project
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