The purse strings and policy process : bureaucratic shaping of industry policy capacity after
By: JONES, Evan
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford : Balckwell Publishers Limited, March 2001Australian Journal of Public Administration 60, 1, p. 21-33Abstract: Much literature in public admnistration debates the role of the public servant in the policy-making process. Some literature acknowledges an integral role of the public servant in the process. However, this role often remains obscure, due to being couched in abstract terms. The hierarchical structuring of responsibilities and power within bureaucracies imparts the capacity for differential influence. This paper provides a case study of the role fo the Public Service Board (power over staffing) and the Australian Federal Treasury (power over the purse) in the shaping of the bureaucratic structure. The case study centres on the industry policy buraucracy in the volatile decade after world War II. In shaping the bureaucratic capacity, the Board and the Treasury eseerted a discritionary influence on the policy process itself
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Much literature in public admnistration debates the role of the public servant in the policy-making process. Some literature acknowledges an integral role of the public servant in the process. However, this role often remains obscure, due to being couched in abstract terms. The hierarchical structuring of responsibilities and power within bureaucracies imparts the capacity for differential influence. This paper provides a case study of the role fo the Public Service Board (power over staffing) and the Australian Federal Treasury (power over the purse) in the shaping of the bureaucratic structure. The case study centres on the industry policy buraucracy in the volatile decade after world War II. In shaping the bureaucratic capacity, the Board and the Treasury eseerted a discritionary influence on the policy process itself
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