Institutions on the edge?

Institutions on the edge?
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9781000257571
ISBN-13 : 1000257576
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Book Synopsis Institutions on the edge? by : Patrick Weller

Download or read book Institutions on the edge? written by Patrick Weller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia faces major challenges to its forms of governance. Changing expectations from its citizens, global pressures on the economy and technological innovation are impacting on government operations. Yet most of its institutions were designed a hundred years ago. Cabinet government was inherited. Parliament was already established in its forms and procedures. The federal structure, the High Court and the federal public service were created as a consequence. The party structure has been effectively frozen since the 1920s and a tradition of handing some responsibilities to arms-length organisations was well established. So how have these institutions changed over the last hundred years and how well will they adapt to the demands of the modern world? Do they have the capacity to adapt appropriately and enable governments to achieve their preferred outcomes? In this book experienced academics and practitioners explore these questions. They examine each of the institutions in terms of their ability to meet new challenges and provide some hope that Australia's institutions, even if at times slow to move and dominated by internal interests, have a capacity to adapt and govern effectively. The book shows our political institutions in a new light, as dynamic, often flexible organisms; it provides important new insights into the way we are governed and how our system of governance might develop in the future.


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