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Whatever happened to frank and fearless? : the impact of the new public service management on the Australian public service /

"In this evidence-based and closely argued work, Kathy MacDermott plots the changes in the culture of the Australian Public Service that have led many contemporary commentators to lament the purported loss of traditional public service values of impartiality, intellectual rigour and, most impor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDermott, Kathy
Corporate Authors: JSTOR (Organization), Australia and New Zealand School of Government, ANU E Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press, 2008.
Series:ANZSOG (Series)
Subjects:
Civil service > Australia.
Public administration > Australia.
Australia > Politics and government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
Civil service.
Politics and government.
Public administration.
Australia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A failure of public administration?
  • The regime of contestability
  • Individual performance management and assessment and 'assumption cultures'
  • Devolution
  • Aligning the service: the impact of workplace relations
  • To market, to market: outsourcing the public service
  • Reforming the reforms?