Laffin Martin

Let the managers govern: minister bureaucrat relationships in New South Wales - 51(4), Dec 92, p.490-504

This article considers the relationships between ministers and chief executives in the New South Wales Liberal National government. It looks at how ministers have set about taking charge of the public service against the background of the new political and economc realities confronting the state government. Senior ministers have conciously sought to limit their dependence on public servants and they have used a range of strategies to do so. They have remoulded the public service in a new "managerialised" form. Policy-making has been further internalised into ministerial involved style of ministerial management of departments"


Civil Service and Legislators -- New South Wales

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