Adam Graycar
Biographic Data
| ID | 374428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Graycar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Graycar |
| SIGNATURE | GRAYCAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2649-2229 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Bureaucratic bastardry: Robodebt/debt recovery, AI and the stigmatisation of citizens by machines and systems
Bureaucratic bastardry: Robodebt/debt recovery, AI and the stigmatisation of citizens by machines and systems
Automation in public administration is inevitable and can bring great benefits. Seventy years ago, Isaac Asimov foresaw the need to protect humans from their creations in his novel I, Robot, drafting three laws to ensure robots: 1) did not injure a person, or allow them to be harmed; 2) obeyed orders, that did not conflict with the first law; 3) protected their own existence without compromising the first or second laws. The first two laws can ap…
Handbook on Corruption, Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration
This timely Handbook unpacks the underlying common factors that give rise to corrupting environments
Death by a Thousand Cuts: Recognizing, Reporting, and Responding to Corruption in Local Government
Corruption is perceived to exist in local government in Australia. This article explores the disparity between reports of perceived corruption by the public and reports by councils. It notes that perceived corruption in local government is not always recognized by local government officials; when it is, it is often not reported, or if it is reported, it does not receive an adequate response. Research undertaken with 251 employees in 10 Australian…
Understanding Australian policies on public health using social and political science theories: Reflections from an Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Workshop
There is strong, and growing, evidence documenting health inequities across the world. However, most governments do not prioritize policies to encourage action on the social determinants of health and health equity. Furthermore, despite evidence concerning the benefits of joined-up, intersectoral policy to promote health and health equity, it is rare for such policy approaches to be applied systematically. To examine the usefulness of political a…
International and Transnational Crime and Justice
International crime and justice is an emerging field that covers crime and justice from a global perspective. This book introduces the nature of international and transnational crimes, theoretical foundations to understanding the relationship between social change and the waxing and waning of the crime opportunity structure, globalization, migration, culture conflicts, and the emerging legal frameworks for their prevention and control. It present…
Introduction to PAR Symposium of Understanding and Reducing Public Corruption
A s public corruption continues to draw media attention as a global concern, and as one of the most pressing policy challenges to tackle, scholarly investigation into this subject has been relatively meager, especially in public administration and related fields. Due to the literature scarcity, several critical questions remain understudied and are thus poorly understood. For instance, although many countries have made great efforts to fight corr…
Does Corruption Follow Opportunity? A Study of the U.S. Congress
Ninety three of the 1,818 people who served in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1972 and 2012 were investigated for corruption by the Ethics Committee. Eighteen were acquitted and 75 suffered consequences (reprimand/payback/resignation/conviction). Detailed analysis of the data shows that the longer one is in Congress, the more likely is the chance of corruption. In addition, the more powerful one is in Congress, the more likely is the c…
Corruption and Public Value
Rich-country corruption is different from poor-country corruption. \nWhen we look at global league tables, we know that Denmark is less corrupt than Zimbabwe, \nthat Sweden is less corrupt than Iraq, but such comparisons reveal little about corruption itself. \nUsing the nation-state as the unit of analysis does not tell us about the nature of corruption, \nabout its effects, nor anything about public value. When cases of corruption are exposed i…
Making Corruption Disappear in Local Government
Local government corruption is a phenomenon across the world. This article draws upon survey work in Victoria, Australia, to show that citizens believe that corruption exists in local government and experience it, but rarely report it to an anti-corruption agency or elsewhere. Even when reported, tracing the outcome from state-level authorities to the local government becomes an exercise in futility, because the corrupt act is dealt with in polic…
Tackling Conflicts of Interest: Policy Instruments in Different Settings
Corruption affects and even shapes public policy in both developing and developed countries. Prevention of the form of corruption known as conflict of interest is one of the most challenging tasks for governments and the international community. This theory-driven article provides a framework of policy instruments and explores mechanisms from two areas of the world where conflict of interest is an important issue: Asia and Latin America. It argue…
Corruption: Classification and analysis
Corruption demoralises government and weakens the whole endeavour of policy formulation and its implementation. It diminishes services and causes fiscal stress, but most of all it undermines trust and corrodes legitimate community expectations. Corruption takes many forms and is found in many contexts. This paper develops a framework for the analysis of corruption which identifies types, activities, sectors and places (TASP). With the TASP framew…
See No Evil, Hear No Evil? Assessing Corruption Risk Perceptions and Strategies of Victorian Public Bodies
This paper critically examines qualitative survey data from 36 Victorian public sector bodies on their perceptions of corruption risks, and strategies to mitigate these risks, as well as the integrity mechanisms in place. The findings indicate that even though corruption does not seem to be prevalent in these bodies it is not on their radar either, though fraud prevention was significantly present. The paper identifies international best practice…
Awareness of Corruption in the Community and Public Service: A Victorian Study
Corruption hurts the public and undermines government. This study of perceptions of corruption in Victoria shows that the community believes corruption is on the increase, yet this view is not shared by public servants. In general corruption is not on the radar of senior Victorian public servants. There are more perceptions of corruption in line agencies than in central agencies. Behaviours most commonly suspected and observed were hiring family …
Understanding and Preventing Corruption
This readily accessible guide addresses key issues in the international problem of public and private sector corruption. Despite the growth in interest of corruption in government and politics, few studies have focused on the practical questions of how to combat corruption. Graycar and Prenzler address these deficits by connecting analyses about the nature and causes of corruption with strategies for effective corruption reduction.Using a variety…
When Experts and Diplomats Agree: Negotiating Peer Review of the UN Convention Against Corruption
The UN Convention Against Corruption is the only truly global convention in corruption control. Separate and rather difficult negotiations were conducted on a mechanism for the implementation of the treaty. These negotiations broke ground by providing, for the first time, peer review of a United Nations treaty. This article, which is based on the authors' close observations and interviews with key participants, seeks to show how the dynamics betw…
The Foundations of Organizational Evil by Carole L. Jurkiewicz
Implementation: Making Hard Work of Something Simple
Early in 2012 the Rural Property Addressing Project in South Australia announced that it had substantially met its outcomes, and that the whole of the project was soon to be completed. In 2003, one of the recommendations to cabinet from the South Australian Premier's Bushfire Summit was to endorse the development of a standard property addressing system for rural properties across the state. This was formally endorsed by cabinet, and was a direct…
Handbook of Global Research and Practice in Corruption
Contents: PART I: CONTEXTUALISING CORRUPTION 1. Research and Practice in Corruption: An Introduction Adam Graycar and Russell G. Smith 2. Corruption in the Broad Sweep of History Marcus Felson 3. Measuring Corruption Finn Heinrich and Robin Hodess 4. Assessing Corruption at the Country Level Francesca Recanatini PART II: CORRUPTION IN PRACTICE 5. Corruption in Procurement Glenn T. Ware, Shaun Moss, J. Edgardo Campos and Gregory P. Noone 6. Circum…
Homicide Through A Different Lens
Homicide rates vary across modern societies, yet most scholarly works on homicide are based on studies in developed countries, although, in less developed countries, homicide rates are higher. Homicide is multidimensional and its related social causes and prevalence differ across cultures. In low-homicide countries, most homicides occur as a result of either criminal activity or personal relationship difficulties. This paper highlights that, in o…
The Loss of Governance Capacity through Corruption: The Loss of Governance Capacity Through Corruption
Corruption manifests itself in many ways and at different levels. Corrupt behavior causes outrage to victims and those who value civil society, it impedes good government and administrative practice. The policy challenge in reducing corruption is to identify the component parts of corrupt behavior and the risk-reward profiles of offenders. This exploratory article begins this process by reporting data from 100 successfully prosecuted cases from N…
Public policy: Core business and by-products
English This paper explores the interesting phenomenon of unintended consequences in policy making: that benefits may accrue in one domain of policy making as the result of actions in another with very different interests and priorities. For example, a key randomised controlled trial of a nurse home visiting programme for young mothers identified significant long term crime reduction benefits among their children. Policy makers, in Australia and …
Transnational Crime and Trafficking in Persons: Quantifying the Nature, Extent and Facilitation of a Growing Phenomenon
The dimensions of human trafficking within the Asia and Pacific region are numerous and complex. In the Philippines, organized crime groups are involved in various ways, leading to a fragmented response. Drawing on reports from various organizations, it is possible to map what is known, and what needs to be known, in order to formulate a holistic strategy to combat trafficking. So far, research has concentrated on estimating the scale of the prob…
Ageing in Asia and Australia: Prospects and Policies
Although the rate of population growth has declined, the rate of ageing in Asia is the most rapid in the world. This article not only deals with the notion of ageing but also the policy responses and practical health, housing, domiciliary care and life enrichment issues
Welfare and the State in Australia
Corruption: Classification and analysis
Corruption demoralises government and weakens the whole endeavour of policy formulation and its implementation. It diminishes services and causes fiscal stress, but most of all it undermines trust and corrodes legitimate community expectations. Corruption takes many forms and is found in many contexts. This paper develops a framework for the analysis of corruption which identifies types, activities, sectors and places (TASP). With the TASP framew…
Making Corruption Disappear in Local Government
Local government corruption is a phenomenon across the world. This article draws upon survey work in Victoria, Australia, to show that citizens believe that corruption exists in local government and experience it, but rarely report it to an anti-corruption agency or elsewhere. Even when reported, tracing the outcome from state-level authorities to the local government becomes an exercise in futility, because the corrupt act is dealt with in polic…
The Loss of Governance Capacity through Corruption: The Loss of Governance Capacity Through Corruption
Corruption manifests itself in many ways and at different levels. Corrupt behavior causes outrage to victims and those who value civil society, it impedes good government and administrative practice. The policy challenge in reducing corruption is to identify the component parts of corrupt behavior and the risk-reward profiles of offenders. This exploratory article begins this process by reporting data from 100 successfully prosecuted cases from N…
Does Corruption Follow Opportunity? A Study of the U.S. Congress
Ninety three of the 1,818 people who served in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1972 and 2012 were investigated for corruption by the Ethics Committee. Eighteen were acquitted and 75 suffered consequences (reprimand/payback/resignation/conviction). Detailed analysis of the data shows that the longer one is in Congress, the more likely is the chance of corruption. In addition, the more powerful one is in Congress, the more likely is the c…
Death by a Thousand Cuts: Recognizing, Reporting, and Responding to Corruption in Local Government
Corruption is perceived to exist in local government in Australia. This article explores the disparity between reports of perceived corruption by the public and reports by councils. It notes that perceived corruption in local government is not always recognized by local government officials; when it is, it is often not reported, or if it is reported, it does not receive an adequate response. Research undertaken with 251 employees in 10 Australian…
Awareness of Corruption in the Community and Public Service: A Victorian Study
Corruption hurts the public and undermines government. This study of perceptions of corruption in Victoria shows that the community believes corruption is on the increase, yet this view is not shared by public servants. In general corruption is not on the radar of senior Victorian public servants. There are more perceptions of corruption in line agencies than in central agencies. Behaviours most commonly suspected and observed were hiring family …
Corruption and Public Value
Rich-country corruption is different from poor-country corruption. \nWhen we look at global league tables, we know that Denmark is less corrupt than Zimbabwe, \nthat Sweden is less corrupt than Iraq, but such comparisons reveal little about corruption itself. \nUsing the nation-state as the unit of analysis does not tell us about the nature of corruption, \nabout its effects, nor anything about public value. When cases of corruption are exposed i…
See No Evil, Hear No Evil? Assessing Corruption Risk Perceptions and Strategies of Victorian Public Bodies
This paper critically examines qualitative survey data from 36 Victorian public sector bodies on their perceptions of corruption risks, and strategies to mitigate these risks, as well as the integrity mechanisms in place. The findings indicate that even though corruption does not seem to be prevalent in these bodies it is not on their radar either, though fraud prevention was significantly present. The paper identifies international best practice…
When Experts and Diplomats Agree: Negotiating Peer Review of the UN Convention Against Corruption
The UN Convention Against Corruption is the only truly global convention in corruption control. Separate and rather difficult negotiations were conducted on a mechanism for the implementation of the treaty. These negotiations broke ground by providing, for the first time, peer review of a United Nations treaty. This article, which is based on the authors' close observations and interviews with key participants, seeks to show how the dynamics betw…
Talks: Practice Under Pressure In the Changing Welfare State
In attempting to redress inequalities of a market economy social policy has found itself, more often than not, responding to changing fortunes rather than trying to shape social futures, working out how best to pick up pieces, rather than developing comprehensive preventive mechanisms. Rather than suggesting that there is little commitment to preventative mechanisms, this paper agues that the gap between policy and practice is so large that preve…
The Relevance of Community Involvement to Social Welfare and Public Administration
Citizen involvement is regarded as a desirable component of public policy making, particularly policy in the social welfare field. This paper examines different conceptions of social welfare and different conceptions of citizen participation. Participation is a term with many shades of meaning, and policy makers should distinguish between sociotherapy, market research and citizen power, all of which come under the rubric “citizen participation”. …
Devolution of federal activities in welfare: The Bailey report
Federalism and social welfare
Tackling Conflicts of Interest: Policy Instruments in Different Settings
Corruption affects and even shapes public policy in both developing and developed countries. Prevention of the form of corruption known as conflict of interest is one of the most challenging tasks for governments and the international community. This theory-driven article provides a framework of policy instruments and explores mechanisms from two areas of the world where conflict of interest is an important issue: Asia and Latin America. It argue…
Implementation: Making Hard Work of Something Simple
Early in 2012 the Rural Property Addressing Project in South Australia announced that it had substantially met its outcomes, and that the whole of the project was soon to be completed. In 2003, one of the recommendations to cabinet from the South Australian Premier's Bushfire Summit was to endorse the development of a standard property addressing system for rural properties across the state. This was formally endorsed by cabinet, and was a direct…
Homicide Through A Different Lens
Homicide rates vary across modern societies, yet most scholarly works on homicide are based on studies in developed countries, although, in less developed countries, homicide rates are higher. Homicide is multidimensional and its related social causes and prevalence differ across cultures. In low-homicide countries, most homicides occur as a result of either criminal activity or personal relationship difficulties. This paper highlights that, in o…
Ageing and Family Dependency
The ‘graying’ of Australia's population has generated much debate within government, demographic, health and social service circles in recent times. Current and projected shifts in population structure towards greater numbers of ‘dependent’ populations raise a number of complex issues in regard to resource allocation in both income support and service provision. Service issues revolve around questions of whether public or private provision will r…
Local Participation: The Australian Assistance Plan
The Australian Government Social Welfare Commission is in the process of devising and implementing a policy known as the Australian Assistance Plan. The Plan is an attempt to bring about co-operative social planning on a regional basis. It envisages the creation of new local governing bodies, Regional Councils for Social Development, to plan welfare services and expend welfare resources
Health and Politics
Politics, described as ‘the authoritative allocation of values for a community’, arises out of conflict. Each party to any conflict attempts to have its interest prevail. The more organized a group and the more resources at its disposal, the more likely that its interest will prevail. Politics is significant in the determination of eventual policies in health matters. The consumer in health matters tends to accept what is presented to him. The in…
Local Participation: The Australian Assistance Plan
The Australian Government Social Welfare Commission is in the process of devising and implementing a policy known as the Australian Assistance Plan. The Plan is an attempt to bring about co-operative social planning on a regional basis. It envisages the creation of new local governing bodies, Regional Councils for Social Development, to plan welfare services and expend welfare resources
Methodological Issues in Evaluation of Social Development Programmes: The Australian Assistance Plan
Proponents of large‐scale social development programmes are increasingly seeking an independent evaluation to guide the planning and administration of the programme. In this paper four problem areas related to evaluation are examined, conceptual problems, methodological problems, operational problems and political problems. The general principles are then related to a current evaluation, that of the Australian Assistance Plan
Governing Australia
The Australian Assistance Plan
The Relevance of Community Involvement to Social Welfare and Public Administration
Citizen involvement is regarded as a desirable component of public policy making, particularly policy in the social welfare field. This paper examines different conceptions of social welfare and different conceptions of citizen participation. Participation is a term with many shades of meaning, and policy makers should distinguish between sociotherapy, market research and citizen power, all of which come under the rubric “citizen participation”. …
Coordination in Urban Settings
In recent years a number of programmes have been developed which focus on the urban community rather than the individual as the beneficiary of welfare allocations. Working on the assumption that different views of social malaise will generate different programme types, this paper takes an analytical framework developed by Roland Warren and applies it to an Australian situation. The problem at stake is one of creating conditions in which a newly f…
The Politics of Social Policy in Australia
Devolution of federal activities in welfare: The Bailey report
Federalism and social welfare
Consultative arrangements in social policy: The second bailey report
Speech given in November 1978 to the Bailey Committee. Delivered by Adam Graycar, School of Social Sciences, Flinders University
Welfare Politics in Australia
Experimentation and the Welfare State
Australia's Social Wage
Public Expenditure and Social Policy in Australia By R.B. SCOTTON & HELEN FERBER (eds.) Poor Policies: Australian Income Security 1972–77 By PATRICIA TULLOCH
Social Policy and the Welfare State in New Zealand . Brian Easton States of Welfare: Comparative Analysis in Social Policy . Joan Higgins
Non-Government Welfare Organizations in Alistralia: Preliminary Results From a National Sample Survey
Australia, a country of 15 million people, has seen a rapid growth in the past decade in social welfare activity and social welfare expenditure. In 1971 expenditure on social security and welfare comprised 17.7 percent of the Federal Government’s budget and 4.3 percent of Gross Domestic Product. A decade later the respective proportions were 27.3 percent and 7.6 percent. In 1971 the proportion of the population dependent on cash transfers for the…
Ageing and Family Dependency
The ‘graying’ of Australia's population has generated much debate within government, demographic, health and social service circles in recent times. Current and projected shifts in population structure towards greater numbers of ‘dependent’ populations raise a number of complex issues in regard to resource allocation in both income support and service provision. Service issues revolve around questions of whether public or private provision will r…
Retreat from the Welfare State
The Development of Welfare Services for Elderly People (Book)
How Australians Live
Talks: Practice Under Pressure In the Changing Welfare State
In attempting to redress inequalities of a market economy social policy has found itself, more often than not, responding to changing fortunes rather than trying to shape social futures, working out how best to pick up pieces, rather than developing comprehensive preventive mechanisms. Rather than suggesting that there is little commitment to preventative mechanisms, this paper agues that the gap between policy and practice is so large that preve…
Welfare and the State in Australia
Ageing in Asia and Australia: Prospects and Policies
Although the rate of population growth has declined, the rate of ageing in Asia is the most rapid in the world. This article not only deals with the notion of ageing but also the policy responses and practical health, housing, domiciliary care and life enrichment issues
Public policy: Core business and by-products
English This paper explores the interesting phenomenon of unintended consequences in policy making: that benefits may accrue in one domain of policy making as the result of actions in another with very different interests and priorities. For example, a key randomised controlled trial of a nurse home visiting programme for young mothers identified significant long term crime reduction benefits among their children. Policy makers, in Australia and …
Transnational Crime and Trafficking in Persons: Quantifying the Nature, Extent and Facilitation of a Growing Phenomenon
The dimensions of human trafficking within the Asia and Pacific region are numerous and complex. In the Philippines, organized crime groups are involved in various ways, leading to a fragmented response. Drawing on reports from various organizations, it is possible to map what is known, and what needs to be known, in order to formulate a holistic strategy to combat trafficking. So far, research has concentrated on estimating the scale of the prob…
Political science (44 works) · Law (33 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Law (22 works) · Economics (16 works) · Public Administration (16 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (14 works) · Language change (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Business (13 works)