Public management in difficult economic times

Three recent speeches – by the Finance Minister to the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (English, 2010) and to the Institute of Public Administration New Zealand (English, 2011), and the statement to Parliament delivered by the prime minister in February (Key, 2011) – draw an explicit link between government expenditure and New Zealand’s economic performance in weathering the global economic difficulties and the effects of the Christchurch earthquakes. Government expenditure is said to be too high and, given present trends, unsustainable. Strategies for making savings have been outlined.

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Institute of Public Administration Australia (ACT), Wednesday 8 December, 2010 Guest Speaker, Mr Terry Moran AO Secretary, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet: Citizens, Culture and Leadership

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e505432012-001 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Terry Moran

Keyword(s):

Public Administration ◽

Prime Minister ◽

Guest Speaker ◽

Institute Of Public Administration

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Welfare in New Zealand. Edited by K. J. Scott. (Wellington: New Zealand Institute of Public Administration; London: Oxford University Press. 1955. Pp. 130. $2.50.)

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s0003055400297979 ◽

1958 ◽

Vol 52 (3) ◽

pp. 878-879

Author(s):

Leslie Lipson

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Public Administration ◽

Institute Of Public Administration ◽

Oxford University ◽

Oxford University Press

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The Politics of Public Management: The HRDC Audit of Grants and Contributions

Canadian Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0008423904230219 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 1022-1023

Author(s):

Bryan Evans

Keyword(s):

Public Administration ◽

Federal Government ◽

Public Management ◽

Internal Audit ◽

Senior Manager ◽

Institute Of Public Administration ◽

Reporting Practices ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

The Media

The Politics of Public Management: The HRDC Audit of Grants and Contributions, David A. Good, The Institute of Public Administration of Canada Series in Public Management and Governance; Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2003, pp. 240The literature in public administration in some ways suffers from not having more practitioners reflecting, writing and analyzing their experiences. Thus David Good's book analyzing the HRDC's so-called “billion dollar boondoggle” is a welcome contribution. His background as both a senior manager/executive within the Federal government and his academic credentials—a doctorate in policy and administration sets him apart—as a practitioner-academic. Good possesses the senior public manager's mind for detail and this book provides a clear account of the ebbing and flowing of events, beginning with the January 2000 release of HRDC's internal audit that implied a loss of a billion dollars, to the Auditor General's report of October that same year which, while critical of monitoring and reporting practices, concluded that only $85,000 was unaccounted for. The media and the opposition, at this point quickly lost interest.

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