Government reformed : values and new political institutions / edited by Ian Holland and Jenny Fleming.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holland, Ian, 1965-

Fleming, Jenny.

Series:

Law, ethics and governance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change.

Public administration.

Values.

Physical Description:

x, 292 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

1 Values, Institutions and the State / Ian Holland 1

Part I Reforming Institutions 21

2 Great Ideas of Central Banking: Values, Ideas and the Transformation of Central Banking and Monetary Policy in Australia / Stephen Bell 23

3 Reforming China's Power Industry: An Institutional Explanation / Xu Yi-chong 43

4 Beliefs and Institutional Change: The UK National Health Service / Brian Hardy, R.A.W. Rhodes 65

5 Rural Policy in Australia: The Farm Family and the Farm Business / Linda Courtenay Botterill 89

Part II New Institutions 107

6 International Institutions and Food Safety Regulation: Values in Conflict / Grace Skogstad 109

7 Political Values, Reflexivity and Environment Protection Institutions / Michael Howes 129

8 Institutional Innovation in Natural Resource Management / Ian Holland 147

9 The Everyday Politics of Value Conflict: External Independent Oversight Bodies in Australia / Colleen Lewis, Jenny Fleming 167

10 ATSIC: Autonomy or Accountability? / Michele Ivanitz, Ken McPhail 185

Part III Society-Centred Institutions 203

11 Internet Content, Mandated Self-regulation and Institutionalizing Values / Geoff Airo-Farulla 205

12 Regulating Relationships: Marriage and the State / Elizabeth van Acker 223

13 Changing Institutions: Pluralism, Traditions and the Contradictions of Reform / Jenny Fleming 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-285) and index.

ISBN:

0754622428

OCLC:

50669621