Australia and New Zealand are routinely presented as sharing more in common than the
federal and unitary systems separating them. As two modernising Antipodean settler …

Employees' competencies are key to understanding individual performance. In this article,
we investigate which competencies are considered important in government using the …

Background Personalisation is a growing international policy paradigm that aims to create
both improved outcomes for individuals, and reduce fiscal pressures on government, by …

Abstract The article studies Public Value Management and New Public Governance—two
new approaches to the management process in the public sphere. It is established that they …

This study investigates the influence of geographical barriers and the challenges and
advantages presented by information and communication technologies on digital …

" While the role of consultants in the policy process has long been a concern for scholars of
public administration, public management and political science, empirical studies of policy …

Public administration as a field of work and study offers a theoretically rich yet practical tool
to enact student engagement and the ideal of students-as-partners: the principles of service …

Responding to the perceived dysfunctions of New Public Management (NPM) and Agency
theory, New Public Governance (NPG) and Stewardship theory offer conceptualizations of …

This article investigates the implications of the move from public administration to new public
management to new public governance for relations between the state and non-profit …

Purpose: The main aim of this article is to conduct an econometric analysis and to examine
relations between institutional factors pertaining to the quality of governance and the level of …