Carving out policy space for state government in a federation: The role of coordination

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 147-163

  Davis, Glyn ^a  

^a Dept of the Premier and Cabinet ^*  (Australia)

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EID: 0032236887     PISSN: 00485950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a029992     Document Type: Article

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2. Rod A.W. Rhodes, "The Hollowing Out of the State: The Changing Nature of the Public Service in Britain," The Political Quarterly 65 (April 1994): 138-151. See also Patrick Weller, Herman Bakvis, and Rod A.W. Rhodes, eds., The Hollow Crown: Countervailing Trends in Core Executives (London: Macmillan, 1997).
3. Martin Painter, "The Council of Australian Governments and Intergovernmental Relations: A Case of Cooperative Federalism," Publius: The Journal of Federalism 26 (Spring 1996): 101-120.
4. Brian Galligan, "What is the Future of the Federation?" Australian Journal of Public Administration 55 (September 1996): 77.
5. For details of these processes, see Martin Painter, "The Council of Australian Governments and Intergovernmental Relations"; Meredith Edwards and Alan Henderson, "Council of Australian Governments: A Vehicle for Reform," Microeconomic Reform and Federalism, eds. Peter Carroll and Martin Painter (Canberra: Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University, 1995). For an official assessment of COAG, see Patrick Weller, "Commonwealth-State Reform Processes: A Policy Management Review," see a report commissioned for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and subsequently reprinted in Australian Journal of Public Administration 55 (March 1996): 95-110.
6. For details of these processes, see Martin Painter, "The Council of Australian Governments and Intergovernmental Relations"; Meredith Edwards and Alan Henderson, "Council of Australian Governments: A Vehicle for Reform," Microeconomic Reform and Federalism, eds. Peter Carroll and Martin Painter (Canberra: Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University, 1995). For an official assessment of COAG, see Patrick Weller, "Commonwealth-State Reform Processes: A Policy Management Review," see a report commissioned for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and subsequently reprinted in Australian Journal of Public Administration 55 (March 1996): 95-110.
7. For details of these processes, see Martin Painter, "The Council of Australian Governments and Intergovernmental Relations"; Meredith Edwards and Alan Henderson, "Council of Australian Governments: A Vehicle for Reform," Microeconomic Reform and Federalism, eds. Peter Carroll and Martin Painter (Canberra: Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University, 1995). For an official assessment of COAG, see Patrick Weller, "Commonwealth-State Reform Processes: A Policy Management Review," see a report commissioned for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and subsequently reprinted in Australian Journal of Public Administration 55 (March 1996): 95-110.
8. Peter Hendy, "Intergovernmental Relations: Ensuring Informed Cooperation in Strategic Policy Development," Australian Journal of Public Administration 55 (March 1996): 111.
9. Aaron Wildavsky, "If Planning is Everything, Maybe it's Nothing," Policy Sciences 4 (June 1973): 142.
10. Leon Peres argued that coordination should be understood not just as procedures but as setting common objectives, a process by which "certain sets of values are disseminated widely throughout the public sector" with a requirement that "all agencies observe them." He is quoted in Martin Painter, "Central Agencies and the Coordination Principle," Australian Journal of Public Administration 4 (December 1981): 268.
11. Glyn Davis, A Government of Routines: Executive Coordination in an Australian State (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1995).
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14. Painter, "Central Agencies and the Coordination Principle," pp. 265-280.
15. The "Fitzgerald Inquiry," named after barrister Tony Fitzgerald QC, found significant corruption in the Queensland Cabinet and the police force. Its official title was, The Commission of Inquiry Pursuant to Orders in Council-Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct (Brisbane: Associated Police Misconduct, Queensland Government Printer, 1989).
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17. See, for example, Peter Coaldrake, Working the System: Government in Queensland (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1989); Glyn Davis, ed., Public Sector Reform Under the First Goss Government: A Documentary Sourcebook (Brisbane: Centre for Australian Public Sector Management/Royal Institute of Public Administration Australia, 1993); Andrew Hede, Scott Prasser, and Mark Neylan, eds., Keeping Them Honest: Democratic Reforms in Queensland (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1992); Scott Prasser, Rae Wear, and John Nethercote, eds., Corruption and Reform: The Fitzgerald Vision (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1990).
18. See, for example, Peter Coaldrake, Working the System: Government in Queensland (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1989); Glyn Davis, ed., Public Sector Reform Under the First Goss Government: A Documentary Sourcebook (Brisbane: Centre for Australian Public Sector Management/Royal Institute of Public Administration Australia, 1993); Andrew Hede, Scott Prasser, and Mark Neylan, eds., Keeping Them Honest: Democratic Reforms in Queensland (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1992); Scott Prasser, Rae Wear, and John Nethercote, eds., Corruption and Reform: The Fitzgerald Vision (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1990).
19. See, for example, Peter Coaldrake, Working the System: Government in Queensland (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1989); Glyn Davis, ed., Public Sector Reform Under the First Goss Government: A Documentary Sourcebook (Brisbane: Centre for Australian Public Sector Management/Royal Institute of Public Administration Australia, 1993); Andrew Hede, Scott Prasser, and Mark Neylan, eds., Keeping Them Honest: Democratic Reforms in Queensland (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1992); Scott Prasser, Rae Wear, and John Nethercote, eds., Corruption and Reform: The Fitzgerald Vision (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1990).
20. See, for example, Peter Coaldrake, Working the System: Government in Queensland (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1989); Glyn Davis, ed., Public Sector Reform Under the First Goss Government: A Documentary Sourcebook (Brisbane: Centre for Australian Public Sector Management/Royal Institute of Public Administration Australia, 1993); Andrew Hede, Scott Prasser, and Mark Neylan, eds., Keeping Them Honest: Democratic Reforms in Queensland (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1992); Scott Prasser, Rae Wear, and John Nethercote, eds., Corruption and Reform: The Fitzgerald Vision (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1990).
21. Wayne Goss, "Process of Executive Government in Queensland," Glyn Davis, ed., Public Sector Reform under the First Goss Government (Brisbane, Queensland: Royal Institute of Administration Australia, Queensland Division), p. 34.
22. Premier Wayne Goss, Queensland Parliamentary Debates 318 (21 February 1991): 6281-6282.
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24. Office of the Cabinet, Cabinet Handbook (Brisbane: Queensland Government Printer, 1992), p. 18.
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28. On state-Commonwealth financial arrangements, see Campbell Sharman, "Ideas and Change in the Australian Federal System," Australian Journal of Political Science 27 (March 1992): 7-18; Cliff Walsh, "Federal Reform and the Politics of Vertical Fiscal Imbalance," Australian Journal of Political Science 27 (March 1992): 19-38. On the constitutional basis and implications of fiscal federations, see Brian Galligan, A Federal Republic: Australia's Constitutional System of Government (Cambridge University Press, 1995), chapter 9. On sectoral implications, see Brian Galligan, Owen Hughes, and Cliff Walsh, eds., Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1991).
29. On state-Commonwealth financial arrangements, see Campbell Sharman, "Ideas and Change in the Australian Federal System," Australian Journal of Political Science 27 (March 1992): 7-18; Cliff Walsh, "Federal Reform and the Politics of Vertical Fiscal Imbalance," Australian Journal of Political Science 27 (March 1992): 19-38. On the constitutional basis and implications of fiscal federations, see Brian Galligan, A Federal Republic: Australia's Constitutional System of Government (Cambridge University Press, 1995), chapter 9. On sectoral implications, see Brian Galligan, Owen Hughes, and Cliff Walsh, eds., Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1991).
30. On state-Commonwealth financial arrangements, see Campbell Sharman, "Ideas and Change in the Australian Federal System," Australian Journal of Political Science 27 (March 1992): 7-18; Cliff Walsh, "Federal Reform and the Politics of Vertical Fiscal Imbalance," Australian Journal of Political Science 27 (March 1992): 19-38. On the constitutional basis and implications of fiscal federations, see Brian Galligan, A Federal Republic: Australia's Constitutional System of Government (Cambridge University Press, 1995), chapter 9. On sectoral implications, see Brian Galligan, Owen Hughes, and Cliff Walsh, eds., Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1991).
31. On state-Commonwealth financial arrangements, see Campbell Sharman, "Ideas and Change in the Australian Federal System," Australian Journal of Political Science 27 (March 1992): 7-18; Cliff Walsh, "Federal Reform and the Politics of Vertical Fiscal Imbalance," Australian Journal of Political Science 27 (March 1992): 19-38. On the constitutional basis and implications of fiscal federations, see Brian Galligan, A Federal Republic: Australia's Constitutional System of Government (Cambridge University Press, 1995), chapter 9. On sectoral implications, see Brian Galligan, Owen Hughes, and Cliff Walsh, eds., Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1991).
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33. Quoted in Brian Galligan, "Australian Federalism: Rethinking and Restructuring," Australian Journal of Political Science 27 (March 1992): 2.
34. Cliff Walsh, "Federal Reform and the Politics of Vertical Fiscal Imbalance," notes that Hawke chooses to "emphasize the prospect of reducing 'tied grants' (specific purpose payments) as a share of total Commonwealth payments to the states as an achievable objective, rather than raising the whole question of 'balance' in the revenue raising powers of the different spheres of government relative to their spending responsibilities," 19.
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