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Analysing policy success and failure in Australia: Pink batts and set‐top boxes

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines two Australian government programs from the Rudd/Gillard Labor government, the Home Insulation Program (HIP) and the Digital Switchover Household Assistance Scheme (HAS). Both became shibboleths of the Labor government's perceived waste and incompetence.
Daniel Casey
wiley   +1 more source

The role of artificial intelligence in the digital transformation of government: opportunities and ethical challenges. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Fan Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Participatory budgeting empowers citizens in decision-making

, 2023
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Scaling up Participatory Democracy. Citizen Engagement in Budgeting in Brazil and Norway

, 2018
Can participatory democracy only occur at the local level? What happens when participatory democracy goes to scale? The view that modern societies are too big and too complex to be governed by ordinary citizens is ingrained in the social sciences. Even supporters of participatory democracy often assume that it works best in relatively small communities
openaire   +2 more sources

Why do politicians employ public–private partnerships? Results from a mixed‐method study

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have become increasingly common in government infrastructure programs around the world. This study collates and categorises the types of rationales that scholars have identified as the reasons for governments to use PPPs.
Sebastian Zwalf
wiley   +1 more source

PROTOCOL: Effectiveness of social accountability interventions in low- and middle-income countries: An evidence and gap map. [PDF]

Campbell Syst Rev
Hassan M, White H, Zahan I, Saran A, Ahmed S, Rahman S, Zubaid S.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Papua New Guinea's Public Services Commission since independence: Sidelined or strengthened?

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates reforms to the Public Services Commission (PSC) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) since independence in 1975. It looks at the original role of the PSC and then the various reforms it has been subject to: in 1986, 2003, and 2013, by constitutional and legislative change, and in 2019, by court ruling.
Nematullah Bizhan, Stephen Howes
wiley   +1 more source

The challenge of participatory projects for physical activity promotion: What to scale and how to scale? [PDF]

PLoS One
Sommer R, Till M, Boyer L, Weber P, Sauter A, Ferschl S, Herrmann-Johns A, Abu-Omar K, Pfeifer K, Gelius P.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Participatory Health Impact Assessment for Health and Well-Being Policy at Local Level in Thailand. [PDF]

Health Promot J Austr
Promthong N, Thaweesook S, Sukmak P, Mongkolsomlit S, Jaidee PH, Putthasri W.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Between Deliberation and Interpretation: Social Movements’ Democratic Rationalities in Legal Discourse

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on democratization often reduces social movements’ legal engagement to deliberative rationality, obscuring how transformation operates through distinct yet complementary procedural logics. This article argues that movements democratize law through dual‐track engagement: Political deliberation universalizes moral demands via ...
Diego Alonso Ramírez Pérez
wiley   +1 more source