GREGORY, Robert

Country report : a New Zealand tragedy: problems of political responsibility - Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, April 1998

New Zealand's state sector reforms, designed to enhance accountability and efficiency, have attracted considerable international attention. However, an unprecedented tragedy in April 1995 involving the deaths of 14 young people, and which resulted from the failings of the department of conservation, has raised doubts about whether the reforms actually clarified or clouded issues of political and managerial responsibility.