The Craft of Governing: The Contribution of Patrick Weller to Australian Political Science

ISBN-13: 9780367719746 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str.

Glyn Davis; R. a. W. Rhodes

Opis

How government works is the central question of political science, and the focus of this collection of essays about the key aspects of government in Australia.

Spis treści

A Foreword from Abroad by Peter Hennessy

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1 Remembering and Witnessing - Glyn Davis and R.A.W. Rhodes

2 A Historian Encounters Politics: The Craft of Pat Weller - Glyn Davis and R.A.W. Rhodes

PART 2: THE EXECUTIVE

3 Two Halves of a Whole: Rudd and Gillard and the Politics of Prime Ministerial Vulnerability - Michelle Grattan

4 Core Executives, Prime Ministers, Statecraft and Court Politics: Towards Convergence - R.A.W. Rhodes

PART 3: THE PUBLIC SERVICE

5 Mandarins - Peter Shergold

6 The Machinery of Government: The Evolution of Research on Ministerial Portfolios - Evert Lindquist

PART 4: HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

7 'It is not a biography . . .', it is executive practice - James Walter

8 Administrative History as Biography - John Wanna

PART 5: INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

9 Agents of Influence: Weller and Xu on International Organisations from a Public Policy Perspective - Jason Sharman

10 Learning a New Trick: International Civil Servants - Xu Yi-chong

PART 6: COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT

11 Who rules? Democratic Versus Bureaucratic Leadership - John Kane and Haig Patapan

12 Westminster Futures: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom in Comparative Perspective - Robert J. Jackson

13 Politics as Work: A Credo - Patrick Weller

Patrick Weller's Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Professor Glyn Davis is Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and R.A.W. Rhodes is Professor of Government at both the University of Southampton and Griffith University.