Multi-level governance and the emergence of collaborative federal institutions in Australia
By: Painter, Martin
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ArticlePublisher: 2001Policy & Politics 29, 2, p. 137-150Abstract: This article looks at recent changes in politica-administrative relationships in the intergovernmental arenas of the Australia federal political system. Some of the major strcutural tensions in these arenas of multi-level governance are indentified,and some of the main problem areas for the conduct of effective problem solving are highlighted. Changes in some of these structural elements are considered to be a result of greater entanglement and closer collaboration between state and commonwealth governments, and three possible explantory models for understanding the changes are considered. These changes are set in a cotext of wider administrative reforms in the constituent state and common wealth governments. Two case studies are also given, each drawn from data collected as part of an ongoing research project on intergovernmental relations. The article concludes with a review of the explanatory power of the models of change, and a brief comment on the evolving character of multi-level governance in the federation
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This article looks at recent changes in politica-administrative relationships in the intergovernmental arenas of the Australia federal political system. Some of the major strcutural tensions in these arenas of multi-level governance are indentified,and some of the main problem areas for the conduct of effective problem solving are highlighted. Changes in some of these structural elements are considered to be a result of greater entanglement and closer collaboration between state and commonwealth governments, and three possible explantory models for understanding the changes are considered. These changes are set in a cotext of wider administrative reforms in the constituent state and common wealth governments. Two case studies are also given, each drawn from data collected as part of an ongoing research project on intergovernmental relations. The article concludes with a review of the explanatory power of the models of change, and a brief comment on the evolving character of multi-level governance in the federation
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