THE ATTITUDES OF SENIOR PUBLIC SERVANTS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM AND TECHNOCRATIC CONSEQUENCE?

In: Governance: an international journal of policy and administration and institutions, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 295-331

Abstract

THIS ARTICLE IS IN THE TRADITION OF COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONDUCTED OVER RECENT YEARS INTO CHANGING POLITICAL-BUREAUCRATIC ROLE RELATIONS. ITS FOCUS IS THE ATTITTUDINAL ORIENTATION HELD TOWARD VARIOUS DIMENSIONS OF THEIR WORK BY SENIOR PUBLIC SERVANTS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. IN PARTICULAR, IT IS CONCERNED TO GAUGE OFFICIALS' TOLERANCE FOR PLURALISTIC POLITICS, THEIR PROGRAMMATIC COMMITMENT, DEMOCRATIC SENSIBILITIES, AND IDENTIFICATION WITH CONVENTIONS OF MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY.