Jenny Stewart
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3731297 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jenny Stewart |
| PRENOMES | Jenny |
| SOBRENOME | Stewart |
| ASSINATURA | STEWART J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Canberra |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8804-8196 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1959 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Filming in European Cities
Academic discourse on screen cities is extensive, yet the professionals responsible for finding and managing city locations have received comparatively little scholarly attention. In Filming in Eur
Creating Public Value in a Westminster Context
For public administration scholars, one of the key attributes of public value as a concept is that it provides a framework for relating managerial action to policy outcomes. While the empirical delineation of public value remains elusive, its best ‘fit’ seems to lie with conceptions of public policy that stress co-production between different stakeholders (including government). However, there is still a significant caveat involving public servan…
Impact and predictors of quality of life in adults diagnosed with a genetic muscle disorder
Between Two Worlds
Although there has been considerable commentary and debate relating to Indigenous political leadership, less attention has been given to the emergence of Indigenous leaders working to improve Indigenous prospects from within the worlds of community development, management, and administration. Based on in‐depth interviews with a cohort of emerging Indigenous leaders in these situations, we found that these leaders are producing their own style of …
Path dependence, policy learning and Australian manufacturing since the 1970s
The impending demise of passenger motor vehicle manufacturing in Australia provides a good opportunity to view the trajectory of industry policy since the Whitlam government commenced the process of tariff cuts in 1973. It is argued that industry policy over this period demonstrates the effects of path dependence and a lack of policy learning. In the industry policy context, the path dependence perspective suggests three key factors in explaining…
Haven't We Been This Way Before? Evaluation and the Impediments to Policy Learning
In this paper, we focus on a policy trial that was undertaken in a complex and controversial policy field (Indigenous community development), with the avowed objective of learning from experience in the field . We observe that despite significant implementation effort and quality evaluation, little systematic policy learning occurred. Four impediments are identified: (i) the policy environment was highly politicized and contested, (ii) the result…
Problems and prospects in community engagement in urban planning and decision-making
Community engagement, both in general and in relation to planning matters, is a widely held value of modern governance. In Australia, community engagement is mandated at local government level across a wide range of policy and administrative issues, from health, to transport, to city planning. Numerous studies have, however, found that the reality falls well short of the ideal of meaningful citizen input into decision-making. Cases where governme…
Public policy as information
Clearly, public policy-making is an activity that both generates and uses information. Both the role of public policy in relation to informational assets and the role of information technologies have been widely canvassed, But can the concept of information itself be used analytically to understand public policy-making? In pursuit of this objective, key theories of public policy are re-interpreted from an informational perspective using a process…
Governance Disclosure on the Internet
This paper examines corporate governance disclosures on the websites of Australian state government departments. The study focuses on the nature and extent of governance information and the ease of finding this information directly on department websites and also in annual reports which are downloadable from websites. Our sample comprises six departments from each of the six states in Australia, giving a sample size of 36 departments. Our finding…
Working with Complexity
Achieving improvements in indigenous health and education and reducing the incidence of crime and domestic violence in indigenous communities has proved heartbreakingly difficult. The Murdi Paaki COAG trial in western NSW aimed to break this pattern of failure by tailoring flexible Commonwealth and State government support to indigenous communities, working within a framework of shared responsibility. In this article we assess the trial as a poli…
When Policy Goes Wrong
Why do policies fail? There are many answers to this question, and many ways of answering it. In this paper, we use the tools of policy framing and systems thinking to investigate two recent Australian examples of public policy failure, each involving a different policy milieu and time-span. We show that, in both these cases, unintended consequences arose because governments lost control of the implementation process while remaining politically a…
Climate Change and Financial Regulation
Regulation has played a significant role in shaping the financial services sector in Australia over the past few decades. Regulatory changes have included the establishment of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), floating the Australian dollar, allowing foreign financial institutions to operate domestically, the introduction of the superannuation guarantee charge, and the removal of interest rate controls. As the economy emerges…
Public Policy Values
Public policy values
Should public funding be given to research involving human embryos? What is the 'best' way to deal with HIV AIDS? Should the wearing of Islamic headscarves be banned? How should choices be made between 'the environment' and 'growth'? More and more policy issues involve questions that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the problem of values. Public Policy Values addresses this reluctance, by viewing publi…
Water Politics in the Murray‐Darling Basin ‐ by Daniel Connell
The Howard Government and Political Management
Although the distinctive values promulgated by successive Howard governments have been extensively analysed, less attention has been paid to the manner of their incorporation into policy. This article maps the ways in which policy processes were managed to achieve values-change in the Howard decade (1996-2006), focusing on the policy subsystem at the apex of government. Three case studies are investigated in detail: the development of welfare to …
Perspectives on policy integration
Value Conflict and Policy Change
The analysis of policy change has produced a number of contrasting theoretical approaches, each offering a lens through which to view policy phenomena. This article suggests that the existing menu of approaches for understanding change can be usefully complemented by an understanding of the role played by value conflict. Using institutionalist analysis, I argue that the need to make value-choices in a nondisruptive way shapes large areas of gover…
Educational policy
English Educational policy represents a distinctive example of the changing public–private boundary that has characterised Australian public policy over the past 20 years. A values-based analysis is used to describe the trajectory of change, and to illuminate points of tension in governance and accountability relationships. As the values that subtend educational policy have changed, so the policy system (and in particular the governance mechanism…
The meaning of strategy in the public sector
Strategic management remains under‐theorised in the public sector, because the issues it raises straddle three distinct but related fields of analysis—the political, the policy‐related and the managerial. At the theoretical level, making progress requires teasing out all three potential dimensions of the term. In the practical sense, there is a need to define a roomier organisational ‘space’ (and time frame) within which strategy can be formulate…
Change Management—Strategy and Values in Six Agencies from the Australian Public Service
Change is a ubiquitous theme in management literature, but empirical studies that seek to draw lessons from the experience of managing change are rare. By investigating patterns of change management in six Australian federal agencies, we elicit a number of factors contributing to success—though “success” is itself not a clear‐cut concept in this area. We found support for a number of broad themes already apparent in the literature and suggest tha…
Systems theory and policy practice
Research Note
New Public Management (NPM) is correctly seen as a multifaceted set of changes, with different emphases in the many countries in which programs of reform have been implemented (Hood 1995). In Australia and New Zealand, and to a significant extent in the UK, the replacement of hierarchical with contractual or quasi‐contractual relations lies at the heart of NPM (Boston et al. 1996; Laffin 1997; Walsh 1995)
Explaining Institutional Effectiveness in Australian Environmental Management
In their Institutions for the Earth (1993), Haas, Keohane and Levy argue that, at the international level, three fundamental conditions must be met for the effective management of environmental problems. They summarise these conditions as the three 'Cs'-the building of concern; the existence of a suitable contractual environment; and the growth of state capacity. We applied the Haas, Keohane and Levy (HKL) model to three case studies at the natio…
Industry Policy
Value Conflict and Policy Change
The analysis of policy change has produced a number of contrasting theoretical approaches, each offering a lens through which to view policy phenomena. This article suggests that the existing menu of approaches for understanding change can be usefully complemented by an understanding of the role played by value conflict. Using institutionalist analysis, I argue that the need to make value-choices in a nondisruptive way shapes large areas of gover…
Systems theory and policy practice
The Metaphor of the Day in Ancient Mexican Myth and Ritual [and Comments and Reply]
The myths of the pre-Columbian Mesoamericans follow a pattern that is well known to historians of religion. At the time of creation, all created beings, whether people or gods, lived together with the Supreme Couple in a paradise in which death was unknown. As a result of a sin-usually the first sexual relations-the creatures were exiled to earth and darkness, and death made its appearance. The sacrifice of a hero became necessary-one who, like t…
The Howard Government and Political Management
Although the distinctive values promulgated by successive Howard governments have been extensively analysed, less attention has been paid to the manner of their incorporation into policy. This article maps the ways in which policy processes were managed to achieve values-change in the Howard decade (1996-2006), focusing on the policy subsystem at the apex of government. Three case studies are investigated in detail: the development of welfare to …
Haven't We Been This Way Before? Evaluation and the Impediments to Policy Learning
In this paper, we focus on a policy trial that was undertaken in a complex and controversial policy field (Indigenous community development), with the avowed objective of learning from experience in the field . We observe that despite significant implementation effort and quality evaluation, little systematic policy learning occurred. Four impediments are identified: (i) the policy environment was highly politicized and contested, (ii) the result…
The meaning of strategy in the public sector
Strategic management remains under‐theorised in the public sector, because the issues it raises straddle three distinct but related fields of analysis—the political, the policy‐related and the managerial. At the theoretical level, making progress requires teasing out all three potential dimensions of the term. In the practical sense, there is a need to define a roomier organisational ‘space’ (and time frame) within which strategy can be formulate…
Educational policy
English Educational policy represents a distinctive example of the changing public–private boundary that has characterised Australian public policy over the past 20 years. A values-based analysis is used to describe the trajectory of change, and to illuminate points of tension in governance and accountability relationships. As the values that subtend educational policy have changed, so the policy system (and in particular the governance mechanism…
Corporatism, Pluralism and Political Learning
Whether corporatism matters or not is one of the most difficult and intriguing questions confronting policy analysts. One approach to the problem not previously adopted is to use systems analysis as a means of teasing out the implications of general structural differences between corporatist and pluralist polities. By using a framework derived from the systems analysis of Easton but incorporating elements of political competition and accountabili…
Rational choice theory, public policy and the liberal state
Between Two Worlds
Although there has been considerable commentary and debate relating to Indigenous political leadership, less attention has been given to the emergence of Indigenous leaders working to improve Indigenous prospects from within the worlds of community development, management, and administration. Based on in‐depth interviews with a cohort of emerging Indigenous leaders in these situations, we found that these leaders are producing their own style of …
Solving the Riddle of Industrial Policy
Industrial policy would appear to be fertile ground for the application of evaluative comparison, that is, the use of comparative methods to elicit principles for policy improvement. Comparative methods have been used, although often on a highly selective basis, to support or rebut arguments about targeted government intervention in industry. This paper argues that it is only when industrial policy is reconceptualised as a system of incentives ra…
The Measurement of Central Control in England and Wales
Problems and prospects in community engagement in urban planning and decision-making
Community engagement, both in general and in relation to planning matters, is a widely held value of modern governance. In Australia, community engagement is mandated at local government level across a wide range of policy and administrative issues, from health, to transport, to city planning. Numerous studies have, however, found that the reality falls well short of the ideal of meaningful citizen input into decision-making. Cases where governme…
Governance Disclosure on the Internet
This paper examines corporate governance disclosures on the websites of Australian state government departments. The study focuses on the nature and extent of governance information and the ease of finding this information directly on department websites and also in annual reports which are downloadable from websites. Our sample comprises six departments from each of the six states in Australia, giving a sample size of 36 departments. Our finding…
Working with Complexity
Achieving improvements in indigenous health and education and reducing the incidence of crime and domestic violence in indigenous communities has proved heartbreakingly difficult. The Murdi Paaki COAG trial in western NSW aimed to break this pattern of failure by tailoring flexible Commonwealth and State government support to indigenous communities, working within a framework of shared responsibility. In this article we assess the trial as a poli…
Explaining Institutional Effectiveness in Australian Environmental Management
In their Institutions for the Earth (1993), Haas, Keohane and Levy argue that, at the international level, three fundamental conditions must be met for the effective management of environmental problems. They summarise these conditions as the three 'Cs'-the building of concern; the existence of a suitable contractual environment; and the growth of state capacity. We applied the Haas, Keohane and Levy (HKL) model to three case studies at the natio…
Australian Public Policy and the Problem of Fragmentation
Politics matters in policy. In particular, the way in which a society organises its structures for bargaining affects the extent to which it is able to solve the general problem of “externalities” resulting from private choice. Two “ideal type” societies, the corporatist and the pluralist, are contrasted. It is suggested that the apparently superior economic performance of corporatist societies may be due to the fact that they have more efficient…
Path dependence, policy learning and Australian manufacturing since the 1970s
The impending demise of passenger motor vehicle manufacturing in Australia provides a good opportunity to view the trajectory of industry policy since the Whitlam government commenced the process of tariff cuts in 1973. It is argued that industry policy over this period demonstrates the effects of path dependence and a lack of policy learning. In the industry policy context, the path dependence perspective suggests three key factors in explaining…
Research Note
New Public Management (NPM) is correctly seen as a multifaceted set of changes, with different emphases in the many countries in which programs of reform have been implemented (Hood 1995). In Australia and New Zealand, and to a significant extent in the UK, the replacement of hierarchical with contractual or quasi‐contractual relations lies at the heart of NPM (Boston et al. 1996; Laffin 1997; Walsh 1995)
Public Management 1995
Until it was discontinued in 1988, the Australian Journal of Public Administration published an administrative chronicle intended to document the events of the past year in state and commonwealth administrations. This administrative essay, the first of a projected annual series, has a different, although related purpose. It is organised on a thematic, rather than a state‐by‐state basis, and attempts to describe and to illuminate the main issues i…
Policy‐making in central and local government compared
1982). Policy‐making in central and local government compared. Local Government Studies: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 73-79
British Pressure Groups
The Metaphor of the Day in Ancient Mexican Myth and Ritual [and Comments and Reply]
The myths of the pre-Columbian Mesoamericans follow a pattern that is well known to historians of religion. At the time of creation, all created beings, whether people or gods, lived together with the Supreme Couple in a paradise in which death was unknown. As a result of a sin-usually the first sexual relations-the creatures were exiled to earth and darkness, and death made its appearance. The sacrifice of a hero became necessary-one who, like t…
Policy‐making in central and local government compared
1982). Policy‐making in central and local government compared. Local Government Studies: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 73-79
The Measurement of Central Control in England and Wales
Traditional Australian Industry Policy
Australian manufacturing industry is generally considered to be uncompetitive because of its years of protection from imports. On the other hand, protectionist strategies in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan appear to have yielded much more successful results. The paper investigates the nature of these strategies, distinguishing between their purpose, in terms of the assurance afforded investment, and their economic effect. It is argued that the Asia…
Australian Public Policy and the Problem of Fragmentation
Politics matters in policy. In particular, the way in which a society organises its structures for bargaining affects the extent to which it is able to solve the general problem of “externalities” resulting from private choice. Two “ideal type” societies, the corporatist and the pluralist, are contrasted. It is suggested that the apparently superior economic performance of corporatist societies may be due to the fact that they have more efficient…
Fiscal dependence, policy autonomy
Corporatism, Pluralism and Political Learning
Whether corporatism matters or not is one of the most difficult and intriguing questions confronting policy analysts. One approach to the problem not previously adopted is to use systems analysis as a means of teasing out the implications of general structural differences between corporatist and pluralist polities. By using a framework derived from the systems analysis of Easton but incorporating elements of political competition and accountabili…
Rational choice theory, public policy and the liberal state
The Transformation of Bureaucracy? Structural Change in the Commonwealth Public Service 1983‐93
Commentators have predicted bureaucratic organisations would undergo substantial change as a result of social and economic pressures. We ask whether reforms to the Australian public service over the 1983–93 period exemplify this process. We use the methods of organisational analysis to characterise the direction of change, basing our assessment on the standard structural variables of complexity, formalisation and centralisation, together with a c…
Public Management 1995
Until it was discontinued in 1988, the Australian Journal of Public Administration published an administrative chronicle intended to document the events of the past year in state and commonwealth administrations. This administrative essay, the first of a projected annual series, has a different, although related purpose. It is organised on a thematic, rather than a state‐by‐state basis, and attempts to describe and to illuminate the main issues i…
Solving the Riddle of Industrial Policy
Industrial policy would appear to be fertile ground for the application of evaluative comparison, that is, the use of comparative methods to elicit principles for policy improvement. Comparative methods have been used, although often on a highly selective basis, to support or rebut arguments about targeted government intervention in industry. This paper argues that it is only when industrial policy is reconceptualised as a system of incentives ra…
Industry Policy
Research Note
New Public Management (NPM) is correctly seen as a multifaceted set of changes, with different emphases in the many countries in which programs of reform have been implemented (Hood 1995). In Australia and New Zealand, and to a significant extent in the UK, the replacement of hierarchical with contractual or quasi‐contractual relations lies at the heart of NPM (Boston et al. 1996; Laffin 1997; Walsh 1995)
Explaining Institutional Effectiveness in Australian Environmental Management
In their Institutions for the Earth (1993), Haas, Keohane and Levy argue that, at the international level, three fundamental conditions must be met for the effective management of environmental problems. They summarise these conditions as the three 'Cs'-the building of concern; the existence of a suitable contractual environment; and the growth of state capacity. We applied the Haas, Keohane and Levy (HKL) model to three case studies at the natio…
Systems theory and policy practice
Change Management—Strategy and Values in Six Agencies from the Australian Public Service
Change is a ubiquitous theme in management literature, but empirical studies that seek to draw lessons from the experience of managing change are rare. By investigating patterns of change management in six Australian federal agencies, we elicit a number of factors contributing to success—though “success” is itself not a clear‐cut concept in this area. We found support for a number of broad themes already apparent in the literature and suggest tha…
The meaning of strategy in the public sector
Strategic management remains under‐theorised in the public sector, because the issues it raises straddle three distinct but related fields of analysis—the political, the policy‐related and the managerial. At the theoretical level, making progress requires teasing out all three potential dimensions of the term. In the practical sense, there is a need to define a roomier organisational ‘space’ (and time frame) within which strategy can be formulate…
Educational policy
English Educational policy represents a distinctive example of the changing public–private boundary that has characterised Australian public policy over the past 20 years. A values-based analysis is used to describe the trajectory of change, and to illuminate points of tension in governance and accountability relationships. As the values that subtend educational policy have changed, so the policy system (and in particular the governance mechanism…
Perspectives on policy integration
Value Conflict and Policy Change
The analysis of policy change has produced a number of contrasting theoretical approaches, each offering a lens through which to view policy phenomena. This article suggests that the existing menu of approaches for understanding change can be usefully complemented by an understanding of the role played by value conflict. Using institutionalist analysis, I argue that the need to make value-choices in a nondisruptive way shapes large areas of gover…
Water Politics in the Murray‐Darling Basin ‐ by Daniel Connell
The Howard Government and Political Management
Although the distinctive values promulgated by successive Howard governments have been extensively analysed, less attention has been paid to the manner of their incorporation into policy. This article maps the ways in which policy processes were managed to achieve values-change in the Howard decade (1996-2006), focusing on the policy subsystem at the apex of government. Three case studies are investigated in detail: the development of welfare to …
Public Policy Values
Public policy values
Should public funding be given to research involving human embryos? What is the 'best' way to deal with HIV AIDS? Should the wearing of Islamic headscarves be banned? How should choices be made between 'the environment' and 'growth'? More and more policy issues involve questions that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the problem of values. Public Policy Values addresses this reluctance, by viewing publi…
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