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Author Podger, Andrew

Title Designing Governance Structures for Performance and Accountability Developments in Australia and Greater China
Published Canberra : ANU Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (280 p.)
Series Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Ser
Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Ser
Contents Intro -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Contributors -- 1. Designing governance structures for performance and accountability: Developments in Australia and greater China -- 2. Theorising public bureaucracies: Comparing organisational purpose, function and form, while counter-posing political control versus bureaucratic autonomy -- 3. How independent should administration be from politics? Theory and practice in public sector institutional design in Australia -- 4. Governance structure, organisational reform and administrative efficiency: Lessons from Taiwan
5. Practical action, theoretical impacts: Aged care and disability services reform in Australia -- 6. All the best intentions: A review of a sub-national attempt at reshaping the not-for-profit/public sector nexus -- 7. Governance for integrity agencies in Australia: An examination of three models of influence -- 8. The roles of community-based non-profits in the context of collaborative governance in Hong Kong and Taiwan -- 9. Assessing the vertical management reform of China's environmental system: Progress, conditions and prospects
10. Meetings matter: An exploratory case study on informal accountability and policy implementation in mainland China -- 11. The performance regime of public governance in Taiwan: From enhancing implementation to improving bureaucratic responsiveness -- Conclusion: Lessons and continuing challenges for greater China and Australia
Summary Designing Governance Structures for Performance and Accountability discusses how formal and informal governance structures in Australia, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan may be designed to promote performance and to ensure accountability. The book presents a selection of papers developed from the Greater China Australia Dialogue on Public Administration’s seventh workshop held in June 2017 hosted by City University of Hong Kong. Insights are provided on both current developments in the different contexts of the three jurisdictions examined, and on broader institutional and organisational theories. Chapters cover theories of organisational forms and functions in public administration, the ‘core’ agency structures used in the different jurisdictions, the structures used to deliver public services (including non-government organisational arrangements) and other ‘non-core’ agency structures such as government business enterprises, regulatory organisations and ‘integrity’ organisations. A particular emphasis is placed on the institutional arrangements the executive arm of government uses for advising on and implementing government policies and programs. Although the book explores arrangements and developments within very different political governance systems, the purposes of the structures are similar: to promote performance and accountability. This book is a companion volume to Value for Money: Budget and Financial Management Reform in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan and Australia (ANU Press, 2018)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Administrative agencies -- Australia -- Management -- Congresses
Administrative agencies -- China -- Management -- Congresses
Administrative agencies -- Taiwan -- Management -- Congresses
Public administration -- Australia -- Congresses
Public administration -- Taiwan -- Congresses
Public administration -- China -- Congresses
Political planning -- China -- Congresses
Political planning -- Taiwan -- Congresses
Political planning -- Australia -- Congresses
Public administration -- Evaluation -- Congresses
Administrative agencies -- Management
Political planning
Public administration
Public administration -- Evaluation
Australia
China
Taiwan
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Tsai-tsu, Su
Wanna, John
ISBN 1760463604
9781760463601