Ralph J K Chapman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1169748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph J K Chapman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph J K |
| FAMILY NAME | Chapman |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPMAN R J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Senior lecturer in administration in the department of political science , University of Tasmania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A federal republic
Journal Article A federal republic: Australia's constitutional system of government Get access A federal republic: Australia's constitutional system of government. By Brian Galligan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995. 283pp. Index. Pb.: £35.00. ISBN 0 52 373526 9. Ralph J. K. Chapman Ralph J. K. Chapman 1University of Tasmania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issu…
Australian politics
David Black (ed.), The House on the Hill: A History of the Parliament of Western Australia 1832–1990 (Perth: Parliament of Western Australia, 1991) pp.558. $n.p. ISBN 0 7309 3983 9. D.H. Borchardt, Commissions of Inquiry in Australia: A Brief Surrey (Melbourne: La Trobe University Press, 1991) pp.107. $24.95 ISBN 1 86324 011X. John Connell and Richard Howitt (eds), Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia (Sydney: Sydney University Press in a…
Information Diffusion
This paper is concerned with the policy-making processes and the nature of the information available to those who participate in them. At a very simple level of concern is the issue of how to define what is a risk to which governments should pay attention in the public interest. For those responsible for making policy decisions there are real dilemmas. The policy process itself is inadequate to deal with the processing of scientific information a…
Federalism Is Alive and Surprisingly Healthy
Reading the comparative analysis of federations as different, constitutionally and culturally, as Canada, the USA, Australia, India and Nigeria, to mention only a few, is to agree with the title of this review. The words are taken from the Introduction to Bakvis and Chandler and this review argues that use of the word “surprisingly” is misplaced. Much of the writing critical of federalism has been labouring under a misunderstanding of its dynamic…
The Australian Advisory Council for Inter‐government Relations as a Moderating Institution
Teaching Public Administration
There is an ambivalence in attitudes to public administration as a field of study among both academics and practitioners in Australia. Teachers, researchers, students, public servants seeking training and managers have differing interests and expectations. Disagreements about the field have contributed to the lack of a unified framework of concepts, while the field has fragmented into public administration, public policy and public management, as…
Local authorities and responsible government
Australian State Administration
Policy Flow Analysis
EXPANDING interest in policy making parallels a crisis in the institutions of democracy. Policy making is fundamental to government for committing resources and defining the priorities guiding governmental action. In industrial and developing societies, where increasing complexity, rapid change and continuous tension are concomitants of existence, traditional administrative agencies, rooted in nineteenth-century experience, are placed under ever …
Policy Flow Analysis
EXPANDING interest in policy making parallels a crisis in the institutions of democracy. Policy making is fundamental to government for committing resources and defining the priorities guiding governmental action. In industrial and developing societies, where increasing complexity, rapid change and continuous tension are concomitants of existence, traditional administrative agencies, rooted in nineteenth-century experience, are placed under ever …
A federal republic
Journal Article A federal republic: Australia's constitutional system of government Get access A federal republic: Australia's constitutional system of government. By Brian Galligan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995. 283pp. Index. Pb.: £35.00. ISBN 0 52 373526 9. Ralph J. K. Chapman Ralph J. K. Chapman 1University of Tasmania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issu…
The Australian Advisory Council for Inter‐government Relations as a Moderating Institution
Australian State Administration
Policy Flow Analysis
EXPANDING interest in policy making parallels a crisis in the institutions of democracy. Policy making is fundamental to government for committing resources and defining the priorities guiding governmental action. In industrial and developing societies, where increasing complexity, rapid change and continuous tension are concomitants of existence, traditional administrative agencies, rooted in nineteenth-century experience, are placed under ever …
Local authorities and responsible government
Teaching Public Administration
There is an ambivalence in attitudes to public administration as a field of study among both academics and practitioners in Australia. Teachers, researchers, students, public servants seeking training and managers have differing interests and expectations. Disagreements about the field have contributed to the lack of a unified framework of concepts, while the field has fragmented into public administration, public policy and public management, as…
The Australian Advisory Council for Inter‐government Relations as a Moderating Institution
Information Diffusion
This paper is concerned with the policy-making processes and the nature of the information available to those who participate in them. At a very simple level of concern is the issue of how to define what is a risk to which governments should pay attention in the public interest. For those responsible for making policy decisions there are real dilemmas. The policy process itself is inadequate to deal with the processing of scientific information a…
Federalism Is Alive and Surprisingly Healthy
Reading the comparative analysis of federations as different, constitutionally and culturally, as Canada, the USA, Australia, India and Nigeria, to mention only a few, is to agree with the title of this review. The words are taken from the Introduction to Bakvis and Chandler and this review argues that use of the word “surprisingly” is misplaced. Much of the writing critical of federalism has been labouring under a misunderstanding of its dynamic…
Australian politics
David Black (ed.), The House on the Hill: A History of the Parliament of Western Australia 1832–1990 (Perth: Parliament of Western Australia, 1991) pp.558. $n.p. ISBN 0 7309 3983 9. D.H. Borchardt, Commissions of Inquiry in Australia: A Brief Surrey (Melbourne: La Trobe University Press, 1991) pp.107. $24.95 ISBN 1 86324 011X. John Connell and Richard Howitt (eds), Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia (Sydney: Sydney University Press in a…
A federal republic
Journal Article A federal republic: Australia's constitutional system of government Get access A federal republic: Australia's constitutional system of government. By Brian Galligan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995. 283pp. Index. Pb.: £35.00. ISBN 0 52 373526 9. Ralph J. K. Chapman Ralph J. K. Chapman 1University of Tasmania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issu…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (3 works) · Government (linguistics (3 works)