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This paper provides an analysis of the broad policy agenda pursued by governments led by John Howard during the period 1996–2004. During this period, market economics has tended to dominate social policy. The paper provides a brief history of social policy during these governments, especially in relation to education, Indigenous affairs, retirement policy, women and regional issues, and social services. The paper concludes that social policy during this period has been characterised by an emphasis on conservative social values, control of the policy process, mainstreaming, market models of service delivery and individual responsibility over government provision.

Examines the relationships between non-profit/non-governmental organizations and government, focusing on "micro" governance structures and "macro" institutional arrangements; some focus on Great Britain, Australia, Hungary, and India; 6 articles. Contents: Modelling the challenge of changing institutional relationships between government and the voluntary sector in the UK, by Kate McLaughlin, Stephen P. Osborne; Working with non-governmental organisations: a sustainable development perspective, by Brian Head, Neal Ryan; Three-way categorisations, hybrids and intersectoral mixes in the governance equation, by Roger Wettenhall; The legal and regulatory environment of the third sector, by Mark Lyons; Citizen-government engagement: community connection through networked arrangements, by Kerry Brown, Robyn Keast; Duality in the third sector: the Hungarian case, by Györg Jenei, Éva Kuti.

This article examines the relationship between government and the public within a producer–consumer market exchange. Four conceptual problems are identified in relation to the application of market models to the relationship between government and citizen. These types of models fail to account for the essentially political engagement between government and citizens, the collective responsibilities of government, the absence of markets in many areas of government service delivery and the complexity of relations between government and citizens.

Increasingly, governments are using contracts as a means of achieving accountability for public resources directed towards community organisations. This paper compares contractual arrangements between community organisations and governments in British Columbia, Queeensland, and New Zealand. The paper examines the extent to which these contracts are able to measure performance. These contracts are also examined with respect to the power relationships between government and community organisations. The paper concludes that performance measurement may rest on establishing an appropriate "value" framework, and that autonomy of community organisations from government may vary according to broader objectives within policy areas.

Suggests that recent models of programme implementation have attempted to accommodate both "top‐down" and "bottomup" concerns within their framework. Some analysts have argued that future development of implementation analysis requires further consolidation of these models and the range of variables identified as having a significant impact on outcomes. Compares the commonalities and differences between three recent implementation analytical frameworks. Argues that a diversity in approaches strengthens the capacity of implementation analysis to accommodate differences in policy environments. Thus, future implementation would be better served by developing analytical tools which assist practitioners to choose appropriate implementation models for different policy situations.