ANZSOG’s Research program has consistently explored important issues in public administration, policy development and management. Our distinctive approach draws on the strength of our networks of scholars, practitioners and owner governments in Australia and New Zealand, and favours collaborative and comparative research that will be of practical assistance to governments and the communities they serve.
This page contains research publications from 2005-2015, including work with the Victorian, Queensland and Aotearoa-New Zealand Governments. More recent research outputs can be found on the Research Insights page
Working Together: Evidence on collaboration from the work of independent watchdogs
By Peter Wilkins, John Phillimore, David Gilchrist (2015)
Contestability in Public Services: an alternative to outsourcing
By Gary Sturgess (2015)
Managers and political astuteness: Lessons for the Victorian Public Service (with Victorian Public Sector Commission)
By Jean Hartley, John Alford, Owen Hughes, Sophie Yates (2014)
Government as a Social Machine: Report 2: (2014)
By Anni Rowland-Campbell, Michael Vitale, Valentina Cardo, Peter Thompson
Government as a Social Machine Report 1: (2013)
Leading with political astuteness: (with Victorian Public Sector Commission)
By Jean Hartley, John Alford, Owen Hughes, Sophie Yates (2013)
A review of government cost-benefit analysis guidelines (with the NZ State Services Commission)
By George Argyrous (2013)
From the outside looking in: limits to partnerships (with the NZ State Services Commission)
By Mark Prebble (2013)
Public policies as investments (with Victorian Public Sector Commission)
By Mark Mintrom (2013)
Mapping the Creation of Public Value: The case of child nutrition in remote Indigenous communities (with the Victorian Public Sector Commission)
By John Alford and Sophie Yates
A new federation with a cities and regional approach
By Richard Murray
Citizen and stakeholder participation: strategies and challenges for the Australian public sector (with Victorian State Services Authority)
By Dahle Suggett
Transparency and public sector performance (Paper 1 in the Transparency Occasional Papers Series, jointly published with the Office of the Information Commissioner Queensland)
By Richard Mulgan
Transparency and productivity (Paper 2 in the Transparency Occasional Papers Series, jointly published with the Office of the Information Commissioner Queensland)
By John Houghton and Nicholas Gruen
Transparency and policy implementations (Paper 3 in the Transparency Occasional Papers Series, jointly published with the Office of the Information Commissioner Queensland)
By Nicholas Gruen
Transparency in Practice (Paper 4 in the Transparency Occasional Papers Series, jointly published with the Office of the Information Commissioner Queensland)
By Andrew Stott
Transparency and the performance of outsourced government services ( Paper 4 in the Transparency Occasional Papers Series, jointly published with the Office of the Information Commissioner Queensland)
National and international perspectives on enhancing strategic policy capacity
By Mark Evans and Claudia Scott
The Effect of COAG’s National Reform Agenda on Central Agencies
By Jeffrey Harwood and John Phillimore
Performance measurement: foundations, consequences, and futures (with Victorian State Services Association)
By Jenny Lewis
Evidence values and public policy (with State Services Commission New Zealand)
By David Bromell
Car Manufacturing in Australia: what’s next?
By Liz van Acker
But will it work? Implementation Analysis to improve government performance
By Kent Weaver
The Opportunity State
By Colin James
Foundations for Good Relationships: Transitions, Trust and Learning (with the Victorian Public Services Commission)
By Tracee McPate and Anne Tiernan
Some Observations and Theory about the Behaviour of Politicians and Officials (with NZ State Services Commission)
By Mark Prebble
The Implementation Challenge: Strategy is only as good as its execution (with the Victorian Public Services Commission)
Some practical thoughts on working across boundaries (with Victorian Public Services Commission) (2011)
By Janine O’Flynn
Improving Public Value in Regulatory Enforcement (Victorian Public Services Commission)
By Hanzo van Beusekom
Nudging Citizens Towards the Big Society (with the State Services Authority of Victoria)
By Gerry Stoker
Grappling with Complex Policy Challenges
By Evert Lindqvist
Governance and Cities: Shifting the urban governance dynamic (with the Victorian Public Services Commission)
By Michael Lemieszek
Dancing with strangers: Understanding the parallel universes of academics and policy makers (with the Victorian Public Services Commission)
By John Wiseman
Serving beyond the predictable (with the Victorian Public Services Commission)
By Jocelyn Bourgon
The nature of strategy in the public sector (with the Victorian Public Services Commission)
By Stephen Petris
And yet it moves: the enduring relevance of rationality for economics and public policy (with the Victorian Public Services Commission)
By Ron Ben-David
Sustaining the Effort: Integrated social policy frameworks in Victoria (with the Victorian Public Services Commission)
By Alison McClelland
Moral Competence in Public Life (with the Victorian Public Services Commission)
By Kenneth Winston
Public Sector Leadership: Moving beyond mythology (with the Victorian Public Services Commission)
By Paul ‘t Hart
Civic engagement and the promise of a new citizenry (with the Victorian Public Services Commission)
By Jonathan Rose
Next up: Putting practitioners and users at the centre of innovation in public services (with the Victorian Public Services Commission)
By Valerie Hannon
So What’s New?: Innovation versus novelty in public service delivery (with the Victorian Public Services Commission)
By Monica Pfeffer
Common Cause: Strengthening Australia’s cooperative federalism (2009)
By John Wanna, John Phillimore, Alan Fenna and Jeffrey Harwood
Challenges Confronting Economic Policy Advisers
By Ken Henry
Public Service Renewal: Reform, Tradition and Challenge (2007)
By Peter Shergold
Arrangements for Facilitating Trans-Tasman government institutional cooperation
By: Department of Finance and Administration (Aus) and Ministry of Development (NZ)
Is Westminster dead in Westminster (and does it matter)? (2005)
By Rod Rhodes