Peter Hamburger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1095412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Hamburger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamburger |
| SIGNATURE | HAMBURGER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canberra (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Policy Advice and a Central Agency
Providing policy advice is often the epitome of a public service career, the opportunity to have a direct influence on policy. Yet there is a wide range of circumstances in which policy advice might be sought, requiring different information, timetables and depths of analysis. This will necessitate the development of a number of skills and be dependent on the political and administrative circumstances. Using the Department of the Prime Minister a…
A Capacity for Central Coordination
For the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) the year 1987 can now be seen as pivotal in marking a clear end to a period of transition in coordinating structures in the Australian Public Service (APS) that had lasted roughly 20 years. The abolition in 1987 of the Public Service Board, formerly a powerful coordinating agency, is the most obvious marker of the change. The PSB's departure left the Secretary of PM&C with a role that is…
Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901‐2006
Symmetric Venn Diagrams in the Plane
The authors discuss artwork created by assigning a binary string code with length 11 to each of 2 11 = 2,048 planar regions formed intersection of 11 rotations of a single simple closed curve over 360/11 degrees. The goal of this process is to create the maximum number of connected regions, exactly one for each of the 2,048 different binary strings with length 11. The difficulty in this process lies in finding a suitable curve. The authors briefl…
Modelling Bureaucracy
A substantial literature exists on the economic analysis of bureaucracy, which includes formal models of bureaucratic behaviour by Niskanen (1971) and Dunleavy (1991). This article develops hypotheses from those models about changes in size of bureaux over time and tests them against data on the Australian federal budget sector in 1982–83 and 1991–92. The models predict that bureaucrats usually will be able to influence the size or structure of t…
Winners and Losers in the Australian Public Service in the 1980s
Pusey on the Canberra Bureaucracy
Michael Pusey's book titled Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation Building State Changes its Mind (Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1991, 310 pp) was launched in Australia in August 1991. In view of the great interest shown in it, unprecedented for a book on a public administration topic in recent times, AJPA has sought reviews from both a practitioner and an academic
Policy Advice and a Central Agency
Providing policy advice is often the epitome of a public service career, the opportunity to have a direct influence on policy. Yet there is a wide range of circumstances in which policy advice might be sought, requiring different information, timetables and depths of analysis. This will necessitate the development of a number of skills and be dependent on the political and administrative circumstances. Using the Department of the Prime Minister a…
A Capacity for Central Coordination
For the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) the year 1987 can now be seen as pivotal in marking a clear end to a period of transition in coordinating structures in the Australian Public Service (APS) that had lasted roughly 20 years. The abolition in 1987 of the Public Service Board, formerly a powerful coordinating agency, is the most obvious marker of the change. The PSB's departure left the Secretary of PM&C with a role that is…
Modelling Bureaucracy
A substantial literature exists on the economic analysis of bureaucracy, which includes formal models of bureaucratic behaviour by Niskanen (1971) and Dunleavy (1991). This article develops hypotheses from those models about changes in size of bureaux over time and tests them against data on the Australian federal budget sector in 1982–83 and 1991–92. The models predict that bureaucrats usually will be able to influence the size or structure of t…
Pusey on the Canberra Bureaucracy
Michael Pusey's book titled Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation Building State Changes its Mind (Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1991, 310 pp) was launched in Australia in August 1991. In view of the great interest shown in it, unprecedented for a book on a public administration topic in recent times, AJPA has sought reviews from both a practitioner and an academic
Modelling Bureaucracy
A substantial literature exists on the economic analysis of bureaucracy, which includes formal models of bureaucratic behaviour by Niskanen (1971) and Dunleavy (1991). This article develops hypotheses from those models about changes in size of bureaux over time and tests them against data on the Australian federal budget sector in 1982–83 and 1991–92. The models predict that bureaucrats usually will be able to influence the size or structure of t…
Winners and Losers in the Australian Public Service in the 1980s
Symmetric Venn Diagrams in the Plane
The authors discuss artwork created by assigning a binary string code with length 11 to each of 2 11 = 2,048 planar regions formed intersection of 11 rotations of a single simple closed curve over 360/11 degrees. The goal of this process is to create the maximum number of connected regions, exactly one for each of the 2,048 different binary strings with length 11. The difficulty in this process lies in finding a suitable curve. The authors briefl…
Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901‐2006
A Capacity for Central Coordination
For the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) the year 1987 can now be seen as pivotal in marking a clear end to a period of transition in coordinating structures in the Australian Public Service (APS) that had lasted roughly 20 years. The abolition in 1987 of the Public Service Board, formerly a powerful coordinating agency, is the most obvious marker of the change. The PSB's departure left the Secretary of PM&C with a role that is…
Policy Advice and a Central Agency
Providing policy advice is often the epitome of a public service career, the opportunity to have a direct influence on policy. Yet there is a wide range of circumstances in which policy advice might be sought, requiring different information, timetables and depths of analysis. This will necessitate the development of a number of skills and be dependent on the political and administrative circumstances. Using the Department of the Prime Minister a…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Cabinet (room (3 works)