Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State

ISBN-13: 9780044421030 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 216 str.

Opis

Some of the fundamental features of the contemporary state are contested in this collection of essays which are concerned with Australian political sociology and public policy.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM AND THE AUSTRALIAN STATE IN THE 1980s

1. Administrative reform and management improvement

2. The concept of public management

3. Democratisation and the administrative state

PART II: FEMOCRATS AND THE AUSTRALIAN STATE

4. Are femocrats a class of their own?

5. Dilemmas for femocracy

PART III: RESTRUCTURING AND THE CRISIS OF THE WELFARE STATE

6. Restructuring and Australian public policy

7. Feminism and the 'crisis' of the welfare state

8. The politics of discourse and the politics of the state

Appendix A

Appendix B

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Anna Yeatman teaches sociology at Flinders University and frequently acts as a consultant to the public sector on program and policy evaluation. Among the collections to which she has contributed is Feminist Challenges. She is the author of Feminism, Post Modernism and Social Science (forthcoming).