Designing Governance Structures for Performance and Accountability

Designing Governance Structures for Performance and Accountability discusses how formal and informal governance structures in Australia, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan may be designed to promote performance and to ensure accountability. The book presents a selection of papers d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Podger, Andrew, author (author), Wanna, John, author, Tsai-tsu, Su, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra, Australia : ANU Press 2020.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Contributors
  • 1. Designing governance structures for performance and accountability: Developments in Australia and greater China
  • 2. Theorising public bureaucracies: Comparing organisational purpose, function and form, while counter-posing political control versus bureaucratic autonomy
  • 3. How independent should administration be from politics? Theory and practice in public sector institutional design in Australia
  • 4. Governance structure, organisational reform and administrative efficiency: Lessons from Taiwan 5. Practical action, theoretical impacts: Aged care and disability services reform in Australia
  • 6. All the best intentions: A review of a sub-national attempt at reshaping the not-for-profit/public sector nexus
  • 7. Governance for integrity agencies in Australia: An examination of three models of influence
  • 8. The roles of community-based non-profits in the context of collaborative governance in Hong Kong and Taiwan
  • 9. Assessing the vertical management reform of China's environmental system: Progress, conditions and prospects
  • 10. Meetings matter: An exploratory case study on informal accountability and policy implementation in mainland China
  • 11. The performance regime of public governance in Taiwan: From enhancing implementation to improving bureaucratic responsiveness
  • Conclusion: Lessons and continuing challenges for greater China and Australia.