Reinventing Westminster
How Public Executives Reframe Their World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6326239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roderick A W Rhodes (0000-0002-1886-2392, University of Tasmania), John Wanna (0000-0002-9342-3138, Australian National University), Patrick Weller (0000-0002-8953-1195, Griffith University) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 461-479 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/030557308x313705 |
| OpenAlex | W1986579376 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 5 |
The rise of the new public management in the 1980s led to recurring challenges to the administrative traditions of the public service in Australia, Canada and the UK. This article analyses how the heads of the public service articulate the traditions of ‘constitutional bureaucracy’ found in Westminster systems of parliamentary government and selectively draws on past understandings to understand present-day changes. We describe traditions under challenge that reshape reforms as reforms reshape them. We conclude that the heads of public services have found ‘space’ or ‘voice’ to articulate innovative ways of combining past traditions with new organising principles of governance. In each case, it is not a question of ‘in with the new, out with the old’, but of ‘in with the new alongside key components of the old’. The myths and legends of yore remain germane to the modern public service
Bureaucracy · Cognitive reframing · Corporate governance · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics · Management · Mythology · New public management · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Public sector · Public service · Service (business · Sociology · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · History · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
Public Accounts Committees, New Public Management, and Institutionalism
Where Have All the Ministers Gone
The Limits to Public Value, or Rescuing Responsible Government from the Platonic Guardians
What the Secretary Said Next
A Very Public Search for Public Value
Bringing the Politics Back In
Analysing Policy Delivery in the United Kingdom
Back to the Future
Rites of Passage
Central State Power and its Limits in Bulpitt'sTerritory and Power
Responsibility to Be Enthusiastic? Public Servants and the Public Face of “Promiscuous Partisanship
Westminster Traditions
Promiscuously Partisan? Public Service Impartiality and Responsiveness in Westminster Systems
Speech Cycle? ‘Election-Defining Rhetoric’ in Westminster Democracies
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,74 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2016 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |