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Mark Considine

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The emergence of networks as an alternative to markets and hierarchies in the organisation of government and new governance systems.
social sciences
public administration
government & law
political science
employment services
welfare-to-work
governance
social work
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Prof

Mark Considine

 
Division
The University Of Melbourne
 
Primary Interest
Comparative studies of the reform of employment services in Australia
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Projects

Displaying the 24 most recent projects by Mark Considine.

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From Entitlement To Experiment: The New Governance Of Welfare To Work

This project aims to model and explain the governance dynamics of welfare to work in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Australi..

2015 - 2020
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From Entitlement To Experiment: The New Governance Of Welfare To Work

This project aims to model and explain the governance dynamics of welfare to work in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Australi..

2015 - 2020
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Working With The Most Disadvantaged Jobseekers

2014 - 2015
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The Pvs-Hanover Building Stable Lives Project

2012 - 2013
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Increasing Innovation And Flexibility In Social Service Delivery

This project will use a comparative methodology to investigate how contracted social services require careful regulation to ensure service e..

2011 - 2017
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Increasing Innovation And Flexibility In Social Service Delivery

This project will use a comparative methodology to investigate how contracted social services require careful regulation to ensure service e..

2011 - 2017
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The Saulwick Age-Poll Archive: A National Facility Of Authoritative Records Mapping A Generation Of Social Change At The End Of The 20th Century

This research facility will be of national significance for all who are interested in social and political change in Australia during the la..

2011 - 2012
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Increasing Innovation And Flexibility In Social Service Delivery

2011 - 2012
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Increasing Innovation And Flexibility In Social Service Delivery

2011 - 2012
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The Saulwick Age-Poll Archive: A National Facility Of Authoritative Records Mapping A Generation Of Social Change At The End Of The 20th Century

This research facility will be of national significance for all who are interested in social and political change in Australia during the la..

2011 - 2012
Completed
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Managing Welfare-To-Work Services In A Mixed-Market System

2010 - 2012
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How Governments Innovate: Networks, Normative Frames And Leadership Styles

This project addresses the national research priority goal of promoting an innovation culture and economy. Understanding the development and..

2010 - 2015
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Activating States: Transforming The Delivery Of 'Welfare To Work' Services To The Long-Term Unemployed In Australia, Great Britain And The Netherlands

With declining unemployment, the possibility of labour force shortages in future years, and an annual expense of $20 billion on income s..

2008 - 2012
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Activating States: Transforming The Delivery Of 'Welfare To Work' Services To The Long-Term Unemployed In Australia, Great Britain And The Netherlands

With declining unemployment, the possibility of labour force shortages in future years, and an annual expense of $20 billion on income s..

2008 - 2012
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Boundary Making And Strategy Making In Knowledge-Forming Organisations

Government policy is devoted to bettering linkages between university research and commercial product development in the knowledge economy. ..

2008 - 2011
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Committees Of Management And Their Impact On The Social Capital Of Victorian Communities

2005 - 2008
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Connecting Government To Community: A Study Of Social And Political Connectivity At The Municipal Level

Facilitating community strengthening by making public institutions more responsive to the needs of citizens is a central policy challenge in..

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Connecting Government To Community: A Study Of Social And Political Connectivity At The Municipal Level

Facilitating community strengthening by making public institutions more responsive to the needs of citizens is a central policy challenge in..

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Fostering Innovation Inside Government: The Role Of Structural & Personal Networks In Improving Innovation Performance Among Politicians & Bureaucrats

Innovation is the engine of the new global economy.The Prime Minster's Australia Day Statement 'Backing Australia's Ability' put innovation ..

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Creating Collaborative Advantage Through Better Network Governance: A Comparative Study Of New Institutions And Instruments.

By harnessing the embedded resources of different government and service delivery organisations operating at community level, and by removin..

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Activation States - ARC Linkage

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Subcontract Agreement - Connecting Government To Community: A Study Of Social And Political Connectivity At The Municipal Level

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Access To Nesa Frontline Staff Survey Data

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Social Policy & Transitional Labour Markets In Australia

The fundamental aim of this project is to explore new institutional arrangements in the area of social policy to cope with structural change..

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Project Types

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Research Grant

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Research Contracts

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Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 70 most recent scholarly works by Mark Considine.

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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

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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..

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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..

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New public management and the rule of economic incentives: Australian welfare-to-work from job market signalling perspective

Mark Considine, Nguyen Phuc, Siobhan O'Sullivan

Journal article  |  2018  |  Public Management Review

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The Policymaker's Dilemma: The Risks and Benefits of a 'Black Box' Approach to Commissioning Active Labour Market Programmes

Mark Considine, Siobhan O'Sullivan, Nguyen Phuc

Journal article  |  2018  |  Social Policy & Administration

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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

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From Entitlement to Experiment: The new governance of welfare to work - Australian Report back to Industry Partners

J Lewis, M Considine, S O'Sullivan, P Nguyen, M Mcgann

Report  |  2016

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What Are Best-Practice Programs for Jobseekers Facing High Barriers to Employment?

D RIBAR, M Considine, G Kalb, J Borland

Report  |  2016

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Welfare-to-work: experience in the emerging Vietnamese welfare state

Nguyen Phuc, Mark Considine, Siobhan O'Sullivan

Journal article  |  2016  |  The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration

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Getting Welfare to Work: Street-Level Governance in Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands

M Considine, JM Lewis, S O'Sullivan, E Sol

Book  |  2015

1997 A new welfare state agenda is outlined, including changes to welfare-to- work. Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of th..

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Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not-for-profits Organizations - An Australian Study

M Considine, S O'Sullivan, P Nguyen

Book Chapter  |  2015

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How governments think: skills, expertise, and experience in public policy making

D Alexander, JM LEWIS, M Considine

Book Chapter  |  2015

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Democratic accountability and international human development: Regimes, institutions and resources

KA Afzal, M Considine

Book  |  2014

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New public management and welfare-to-work in Australia: Comparing the reform agendas of the ALP and the Coalition

Mark Considine, Siobhan O'Sullivan, Nguyen Phuc

Journal article  |  2014  |  Australian Journal of Political Science

Since the 1990s, the adoption of new public management (NPM) as a management philosophy has translated into multiple waves of refo..

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Policy Design as Craft: Teasing out policy design expertise using a semi-experimental approach

M Considine, DT Alexander, JM Lewis

Journal article  |  2014  |  Policy Sciences

Public policy research typically neglects the role of the individual policy actor with most accounts of the policy process instead..

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Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not-for-profit Organizations - An Australian Study

Mark Considine, Siobhan O'Sullivan, Nguyen Phuc

Journal article  |  2014  |  Social Policy & Administration

This article investigates strategic changes in the governance of not-for-profit (NFP) boards in response to Australia’s fully cont..

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Introduction: Markets and the New Welfare - Buying and Selling the Poor

M Considine, SB O'Sullivan

Journal article  |  2014  |  Social Policy & Administration

With welfare reformers in almost every country experimenting with forms of privatization and what its advocates have called ‘super..

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Mission-drift? The Third Sector and the pressure to be business-like: Evidence from Job Services Australia

M Considine, SB O'Sullivan, undefined Nguyen

Journal article  |  2014  |  Third Sector Review

Becoming more businesslike is seen by many not-for-profit (NFP) agencies as necessary for survival, if not expansion, under the co..

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Increasing Innovation and Flexibility in Social Service Delivery. Comparative Australia and UK Report

M Considine, SB O'Sullivan, PT Nguyen, undefined F

Report  |  2013

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Increasing Innovation and Flexibility in Social Service Delivery. Report Back to Australian Industry

M Considine, SB O'Sullivan, PT Nguyen, undefined F

Report  |  2013

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Increasing Innovation and Flexibility in Social Service Delivery. Report Back to UK Industry

M Considine, SB O'Sullivan, PT Nguyen, undefined F

Report  |  2013

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GOVERNANCE NETWORKS AND THE QUESTION OF RANSFORMATION

Mark Considine

Journal article  |  2013  |  Public Administration

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Policy networks and innovation

JM Lewis, D Alexander, M Considine

Book Chapter  |  2013

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Thinking Outside the Box? Applying Design Theory to Public Policy

M Considine

Journal article  |  2012  |  Politics and Policy

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Civic Engagement and Associationalism: The Impact of Group Membership Scope versus Intensity of Participation

Damon Timothy Alexander, Jo Barraket, Jenny M Lewis, Mark Considine

Journal article  |  2012  |  European Sociological Review

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Accountability in an Age of Markets and Networks

M Considine, undefined Afzal

Book Chapter  |  2012

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Les réformes de l'activation des aides aux chômeurs en Australie

M Considine, SB O'Sullivan

Journal article  |  2012  |  Information sociales

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Les réformes de l’activation des aides aux chômeurs en Australie

M Considine, SB O'Sullivan

Journal article  |  2012  |  Information sociales

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NETWORKS AND INTERACTIVITY Ten years of street-level governance in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Australia

Mark Considine, Jenny M Lewis

Journal article  |  2012  |  Public Management Review - Print Edition

The systemic reform of employment services in OECD countries was driven by New Public Management (NPM) and then post-NPM reforms, ..

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Quasi-Markets and Service Delivery Flexibility Following a Decade of Employment Assistance Reform in Australia

Mark Considine, Jenny M Lewis, Siobhan O'Sullivan

Journal article  |  2011  |  Journal of Social Policy

In 1998, we were witnessing major changes in frontline social service delivery across the OECD and this was theorised as the emerg..

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Legitimacy

M Considine, KA Afzal

Book Chapter  |  2011

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Network governance on the frontline

M Considine, JM Lewis

Book Chapter  |  2011

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HOW POLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATS NETWORK: A COMPARISON ACROSS GOVERNMENTS

Damon Alexander, Jenny M Lewis, Mark Considine

Journal article  |  2011  |  Public Administration

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Legitimacy

M Considine, KA Afzal

Book Chapter  |  2011

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network governance on the frontline

Jenny M Lewis, Mark Considine

Book Chapter  |  2011

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Innovation Inside Government: The Importance of Networks

Jenny M Lewis, Mark Considine, Damon Alexander

Book Chapter  |  2011

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Front-line work in employment services after ten years of New Public Management reform: Governance and activation in Australia, the Netherlands and the UK

M Considine, JM Lewis

Journal article  |  2010  |  European Journal of Social Security

This study examines the impact of administrative reforms upon the work of front-line staff in the employment services of three ref..

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John Howard and the Neo-liberal Agenda

S O'SULLIVAN, M CONSIDINE, J LEWIS

Conference Proceedings  |  2009  |  Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference

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Networks, innovation and public policy: Politicians, bureaucrats and the pathways to change inside government

M Considine, JM Lewis, D Alexander

Book  |  2009

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Activating States: transforming the delivery of ‘welfare to work’ services in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands. Report to Australian Providers

M Considine, JL Lewis, SB O'Sullivan

Report  |  2008

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Who are the innovators inside government? The importance of networks

M CONSIDINE, J LEWIS, D ALEXANDER

Conference Proceedings  |  2008  |  TASA: Re- Imagining Sociology

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Activating States: transforming the delivery of ‘welfare to work’ services in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands. Report to UK Providers

M Considine, JL Lewis, SB O'Sullivan

Report  |  2008

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Governance, networks and civil society: How local governments connect to local organisations and groups

M CONSIDINE, J LEWIS, D ALEXANDER

Book Chapter  |  2008

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Innovation and innovators inside government: From institutions to networks

Mark Considine, Jenny M Lewis

Journal article  |  2007  |  Governance - An International Journal of Policy and Administration

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The Networking Behaviour of Politicians and Bureaucrats: Understanding innovation inside government

M CONSIDINE, J LEWIS, D ALEXANDER

Conference Proceedings  |  2007  |  Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA)

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Theorizing the university as a cultural system: Distinctions, identities, emergencies

M Considine

Journal article  |  2006  |  Educational Theory

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The Power of Networks: Institutional Transformations in the Global Era?

M CONSIDINE

Conference Proceedings  |  2006  |  Democratic Network Governance

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Designing Local Governance Partnerships: Issues and Dynamics in Two Australian Cases

M CONSIDINE, A HART

Conference Proceedings  |  2006  |  Governments and Communities in Partnership: From Theory to Practice

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Politics in time: History, institutions, and social analysis

M Considine

Journal article  |  2005  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

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The baby and the Bath water: The impact of American-Style Sctiovation Policies on Families

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Book Chapter  |  2005

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Partnerships, Relationships and Networks: Understanding Local Collaboration Strategies in Different Countries

M CONSIDINE

Book Chapter  |  2005

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Local Governance and the Drivers of Growth

M CONSIDINE

Book Chapter  |  2005

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Mapping the Normative Underpinnings of Local Governance

M CONSIDINE, JM LEWIS

Book Chapter  |  2005

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Steering, efficiency and partnership: the Australian quasi-market for public employment services

M CONSIDINE

Book Chapter  |  2005

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Making Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies

M CONSIDINE

Book  |  2005

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The reform that never ends: quasi-markets and employment services in Australia

M CONSIDINE

Book Chapter  |  2005

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Governance and competition: The role of non-profit organisations in the delivery of public services

M Considine

Journal article  |  2003  |  Australian Journal of Political Science

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Networks and interactivity: making sense of front-line governance in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Australia

Journal article  |  2003  |  Journal of European Public Policy

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Bureaucracy, network, or enterprise? Comparing models of governance in Australia, Britain, The Netherlands, and New Zealand

M Considine, JM Lewis

Journal article  |  2003  |  Public Administration Review

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Much obliged: disadvantaged job seekers' experiences of the mutual obligation regime

M CONSIDINE, G DUFTY, S ZIGURAS

Scholarly edition  |  2003

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Local partnerships: Different histories, common challenges - A synthesis

M Considine

Book Chapter  |  2003

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Enterprise governance: the limits and shortcomings of quasi-markets as a tool of social policy - the case of Australia's economic services reforms

M CONSIDINE

Conference Proceedings  |  2002  |  New players, partners and processes: a public service without boundaries?

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Joined at the lip? What does network research tell us about governance?

M CONSIDINE

Conference Proceedings  |  2002  |  Knowledge, networks and joined-up government

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The end of the line? Accountable governance in the age of networks, partnerships, and joined-up services

M Considine

Journal article  |  2002  |  Governance - An International Journal of Policy and Administration

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APSA presidential address 2000 - The tragedy of the common-rooms? Political science and the new university governance

M Considine

Journal article  |  2001  |  Australian Journal of Political Science

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The comparative performance of Australia as a knowledge nation

M CONSIDINE, S MARGINSON, P Sheehan, M Kumnick

Report  |  2001

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Taking the Measure of New Governance

M CONSIDINE, JM LEWIS

Book Chapter  |  2001

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Enterprising states: the public management of welfare-to-work

M CONSIDINE

Book  |  2001

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Selling the unemployed: The performance of bureaucracies, firms and non-profits in the New Australian 'market' for unemployment assistance

M Considine

Journal article  |  2000  |  Social Policy & Administration

Major changes to the organization of welfare programmes indicate the emergence of a new welfare state (NWS) model which claims to ..

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Markets, networks and the new welfare state: Employment assistance reforms in Australia

M Considine

Journal article  |  1999  |  Journal of Social Policy

Contemporary theoretical debates point to a transformation of societies and social organisations away from universal forms of mass..

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Policy and Administration
Government and Politics
Political Science
Non-Oriented Research
Expanding Knowledge
Applied Economics
Community Service (excl. Work)
Education Studies
Higher Education
Work

News

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10 great books to read before you die

Mark Considine

September 25, 2015

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2001

American Educational Research Association
2001

American Society for Public Adminstration
2005

FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

2000

FIPAA - Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia

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Awards

Credentials

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne