scholarly journals The challenges for the public service in protecting Australia’s democracy in the future

Author(s):  
Terry Moran
Keyword(s):  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Dhoest ◽  
Hilde Van den Bulck ◽  
Heidi Vandebosch ◽  
Myrte Dierckx

The public broadcasting remit in the eyes of the audience: survey research into the future role of Flemish public service broadcasting The public broadcasting remit in the eyes of the audience: survey research into the future role of Flemish public service broadcasting In view of the discussion about the future position of public service broadcasting, this research investigates the expectations of Flemings regarding their public service broadcasting institution VRT. Based on the current task description of the VRT, a survey was effectuated among a representative sample of Flemings (N=1565). Questions were asked about the content (broad or complementary to commercial broadcasting), audience (broad or niche) and distinctive nature of public service broadcasting. The analysis shows that, overall, Flemings are in favour of a broad public service broadcasting institution with a strong focus on entertainment (besides information), oriented towards a broad audience. At the same time, they believe the institution should distinguish itself from its competitors, through quality, social responsibility, cultural identity and (particularly creative) innovation, among other things. Cluster analysis shows that the call to prioritize culture and education over entertainment, which dominates public debate, is representative of only a minority (20%) of highly educated Flemings.


Labour ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-164
Author(s):  
Tiziano Treu ◽  
A. De. Felice

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-68
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs

This chapter presents the results of the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Utopias Survey, an exploratory survey conducted by Christian Fuchs. The survey was the first step in the process that led to the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto. The exploratory survey was focused on gathering ideas about the future of the Internet and public service media. The survey was qualitative in nature and focused on three themes: communication, digital media and the Internet in an ideal world; progressive reforms of public service media; public service media and the Internet in 2030. There were 141 responses. The survey results informed and structured the further work process that led to the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto. The survey provides ample evidence for the importance of Public Service Media for the future of the democratic public sphere and shows that the Public Service Internet is the key issue for the future of Public Service Media. The survey inspired concrete utopian thinking among the respondents in order to generate new ideas about the future of the Internet. The exploratory survey was focused on gathering ideas about the future of the Internet and public service media. The survey was qualitative in nature and focused on three themes: communication, digital media and the Internet in an ideal world; progressive reforms of public service media; public service media and the Internet in 2030. There were 141 responses. The survey results informed and structured the further work process that led to the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto. The survey provides ample evidence for the importance of Public Service Media for the future of the democratic public sphere and shows that the Public Service Internet is the key issue for the future of Public Service Media. The survey inspired concrete utopian thinking among the respondents in order to generate new ideas about the future of the Internet.


Author(s):  
Zoe Radnor ◽  
Nicola Bateman

This chapter aims to reflect on the past and present move of OM from manufacturing to service through analysis of key OM journals and recognition of practice before considering in more depth the future of OM in terms of the ‘fit’ for public services. It offers an analysis of ‘lean’ in public services. A philosophy and methodology much hailed as way to manage operations effectively. The review will present the prespective that uncritically applying manufacturing ideas to public service is flawed. It argues that adapting OM to the public service environment whilst, learning from existing thinking, should also recognise themselves as services, with the distinctive service operations management logic and managerial challenges that this implies. In conclusion, the chapter will state that managing operations across all sectors in the future should draw on a range of disciplines, theory and concepts.


Prometheus ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athol Yates
Keyword(s):  

2010 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. s238-s245 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Perry ◽  
Neal D. Buckwalter
Keyword(s):  

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Cameron

The New Zealand public service faced an unprecedented challenge in 2020. The focus of this article is on what the Covid-19 experience can tell us about the strengths of the public service, and whether the course that we have set for the future, enshrined through the Public Service Act 2020, is the right one. The established directions of public service change helped the Covid response: functional leadership made a definite contribution; dispersed leadership roles proved their worth; the deepening experience of inter-agency collaboration over the past decade cannot be proved to have contributed, but it seems reasonable to conclude that it did. Public servants proved willing to behave as participants in a single service rather than employees of a single agency, living up to the more complete view of human motivation reflected in the Public Service Act. The article concludes with some observations on the importance of interoperability for the future public service, and on the implications the strong Mäori response to Covid-19 may have for the public service of the future.


Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
O.C. McSwite

The public service is a workplace that is edifying because the structural position it occupies in government and society and the work it does entails genuine encounter with self, others, and more generally, the intractable issues of real life. No matter what a public servant is given to do, the ultimate purpose in doing it is to protect and further the public interest. Being relentlessly put up against this ultimate standard is the curse of the public servant's life and at the same time the salvation that life in the public service offers.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Ricardo Schier ◽  
Adriana Da Costa Ricardo Schier

<p><strong>SERVIÇO PÚBLICO ADEQUADO E A CLÁUSULA DE PROIBIÇÃO DE RETROCESSO SOCIAL </strong></p><p><strong>Resumo:</strong> O objetivo central do estudo é demonstrar que na perspectiva de uma constitucionalização adequada do Direito Administrativo não apenas o serviço público deve ser considerado um direito fundamental, mas também o regime jurídico de sua prestação. Neste sentido defende-se que o regime jurídico do serviço público definido no art. 6º, § 1º, da Lei n.º 8.987/95 é uma garantia que, a despeito de possuir delineamento infraconstitucional, apresenta-se como direito fundamental e, logo, este regime é protegido como cláusula pétrea e, portanto, em relação a ele, atendidos alguns pressupostos, incide a cláusula de proibição de retrocesso social de modo a estar protegido em face de legislação corrosiva futura. Os pressupostos de incidência da vedação de retrocesso social no campo do regime jurídico do serviço público seriam: (i) existência de consenso em relação à relevância do conteúdo disciplinado através da lei, (ii) que a legislação esteja a densificar um direito fundamental e (iii) que a legislação futura, ao revogar a vigente, venha a atingir o núcleo essencial do direito afetado.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chaves:</strong> Serviço Público; Regime Jurídico do Serviço Público; Proibição de Retrocesso Social; Mínimo existencial.</p><p><strong>THE SUITABLE PUBLIC SERVICE AND THE PROHIBITING CLAUSE OF SOCIAL RETROCESSION (RATCHET EFFECT) </strong></p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The main purpose of this work is demonstrate that, in the perspective of an adequate constitutionalization of Administrative Law, not only the Public Service must be consider as a fundamental right, but also the juridical regime for its application. In this sense, it is established that the juridical regime of the public service at the 6th article, 1st §, Law n° 8.987/95 is a guarantee that, despite it possesses "infraconstitutional" design, it is presented as fundamental right and since it is, this regime is protect as an irrevocable cause, therefore, in its relation, and once some presupposed points being responded, it claims the prohibiting clause of social retrogression in a way to protect it from a rusty legislation in the future. The pressupose of an incidence of a social retroceding lock in the juridical field on public service would be: (i) the existence of a consensus related to the pertinence of the disciplined purport through the law, (ii) the legislation could be in the way to densify a fundamental right and (iii) that the future legislation, revoking the actual, come to hit the hub of the affected right.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> State intervention; Law 9.985/2000; Public lands; Conservation Unit; Expropriation.</p><p><strong>Data da submissão:</strong> 03/05/2016                   <strong>Data da aprovação:</strong> 12/06/2016</p>


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