Michael McGann

Contracting personalization by results: Comparing marketization reforms in the UK and Australia

Mark Considine, Siohban O'Sullivan, Michael McGann, Phuc Nguyen

Journal article  |  2020  |  Public Administration

Market instruments are increasingly used to drive innovation and efficiency in public services. Meanwhile, many governments recogn..

Welfare Conditionality and Blaming the Unemployed

Michael McGann, Phuc Nguyen, Mark Considine

Journal article  |  2020  |  ADMINISTRATION & SOCIETY

Welfare recipients are increasingly subject to various forms of work-related conditionality that, critics argue, presuppose a “pat..

Locked-in or Locked-out: Can a Public Services Market Really Change?

MARK CONSIDINE, SIOBHAN O’SULLIVAN, MICHAEL MCGANN, PHUC NGUYEN

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Social Policy

Australia’s welfare-to-work system has been subject to ongoing political contestation and policy reform since the 1990s. In this p..

Innovation labs and co-production in public problem solving

Michael McGann, Tamas Wells, Emma Blomkamp

Journal article  |  2019  |  PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Governments are increasingly establishing innovation labs to enhance public problem solving. Despite the speed at which these new ..

When design meets power: Design thinking, public sector innovation and the politics of policymaking

Jenny Lewis, mcgann McGann, emma Blomkamp

Journal article  |  2019  |  Policy & Politics

Responding to the need for innovation, governments have begun experimenting with ‘design thinking’ approaches to reframe policy is..

The Category Game and its impact on Street-Level Bureaucrats and Jobseekers: An Australian Case Study

Siobhan O’Sullivan, M McGann, M Considine

Journal article  |  2019  |  Social Policy and Society

A key question concerning the marketisation of employment services is the interaction between performance management systems and f..

Introduction: Rethinking welfare-to-work for the long-term unemployed

Michael McGann, Sophie Danneris, Siobhan O’Sullivan

Journal article  |  2019  |  Social Policy and Society

Welfare reforms across OECD countries have seen social citizenship rights contractualisedandincreasinglyrepurposedascommodifying ‘..

The rise of public sector innovation labs: experiments in design thinking for policy

Michael McGann, Emma Blomkamp, Jenny M Lewis

Journal article  |  2018  |  POLICY SCIENCES

Governments are increasingly turning to public sector innovation (PSI) labs to take new approaches to policy and service design. T..

From Entitlement to Experiment: Industry Report on Case Studies of high performing providers

Jenny Lewis, Mark Considine, Siobhan O'Sullivan, Phuc Nguyen, Michael McGann

Report  |  2018

Mapping public sector innovation units in Australia and New Zealand: 2018 Survey Report

Michael McGann, Jenny Lewis, Emma Blomkamp

Report  |  2018