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100	1		_aHOWARD, Cosmo _94942
245	1	0	_aBureaucrats in the social policy process : _badministrative policy entrepreneurs and the case of working nation
260			_aOxford : _bBlackwell Publishers Limited, _cSeptember 2001
520	3		_aMuch of the contemporary literature on Australian social policy tends to focus on broad environmental and institutonal variables and to downplay the importance of the social policy decision-making process and its participants. Yet the study of specific cases in social policy-making reveals that senior admnistrators often have a significant impact on the direction of social policy reform.The income support reforms adopted as part of the fomer Federal Labor government`s Working Nation package illustrate the potential for bureaucrats to influence the direction of change. Senior administrative officers within the former Commonwealth Department of Social Security played a crucial role in promoting reforms which increased the generosity of the means test on unemployment payments.These bureaucrats behaved as policy entrepreneurs and worked in a strategic manner to garner support for and reduce oppositon to their proposals whithin the decision-making process
773	0	8	_tAustralian Journal of Public Administration _g60, 3, p. 56-65 _dOxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, September 2001 _xISSN 0313-6647 _w
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998			_a20020917 _bCassio _cCassio
998			_a20070308 _b1850^b _cCarolina
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c7128 _d7128
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