Advising Governments in the Westminster Tradition
Policy Advisory Systems in Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
- Authors:
- Jonathan Craft, University of Toronto
- John Halligan, University of Canberra
- Date Published: November 2020
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108421492
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In turbulent environments and unstable political contexts, policy advisory systems have become more volatile. The policy advisory system in Anglophone countries is composed of different types of advisers who have input into government decision making. Government choices about who advises them varies widely as they demand contestability, greater partisan input and more external consultation. The professional advice of the public service may be disregarded. The consequences for public policy are immense depending on whether a plurality of advice works effectively or is derailed by narrow and partisan agendas that lack an evidence base and implementation plans. The book seeks to addresses these issues within a comparative country analysis of how policy advisory systems are constituted and how they operate in the age of instability in governance and major challenges with how the complexity policy issue can be handled.
Read more- Features comparative analysis to improve understanding of both the adoption and evolution of Westminster principles and looks at how similar pressures have been experienced in the four advisory systems but with different responses
- Focuses on key sets of advisers (public servants, political advisers, consultants, think tanks) and how they contribute to advisory systems
- Examines the dynamics of how the systems change, how advice to governments is evolving and how the systems of advice are adjusting to turbulent environments
Awards
- Winner, 2021 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book, International Political Science Association
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- Date Published: November 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108421492
- length: 276 pages
- dimensions: 240 x 160 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.6kg
- contains: 3 b/w illus. 19 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Policy Advisory Systems: An Introduction
2. Comparative Contexts
3. Approaches to Understanding PAS and Change over Time
4. Public Services and Policy Advice
5. Ministerial Partisan Advisers and the Politicisation of PAS
6. Alternative Advice from Within Government
7. External Advice
8. Understanding Westminster PAS Change
9. Trends, Tensions, and the State of Neo-policy Advisory Systems.
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