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{"title":"Understanding the costs of co-commissioning: Early experiences with co-commissioning in Australia","authors":"Shona Bates,&nbsp;Ben Harris-Roxas,&nbsp;Michael Wright","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12599","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8500.12599","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Public services, such as health and other human services, are increasingly being delivered by third-party providers (providers) under contract to public sector organisations (PSOs). While often advantageous to PSOs, this creates a fragmented service context which is difficult for consumers to navigate. Further, providers often deliver services under multiple contracts to multiple funders, with high reporting requirements, high administrative costs, and low operational sustainability. Policymakers have encouraged co-commissioning—where PSOs come together to jointly commission services—to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of outsourcing. This article seeks to understand the costs of co-commissioning in Australia, and consequently the enablers and barriers to co-commissioning. This qualitative study is based on the early experiences of co-commissioning by one of 31 Primary Health Networks (PHNs). Using transaction cost economics (TCE) theory, the study explains how the PHN started co-commissioning services with other PHNs, before co-commissioning with other types of organisations. The PHN also co-commissioned relatively simple activities first, before moving on to more complex services. The insights provided using TCE theory help explain why co-commissioning is initially complicated (and costly), requiring time to understand both the services to be commissioned and the governance requirements of each party involved. While initial transaction costs may be high when co-commissioning, this may reflect organisational learning and capacity development costs - therefore, costs are expected to reduce over time.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Points for practitioners</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Fragmentation in policy and funding also leads to fragmentation of human services and high costs to service providers.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Co-commissioning is where multiple funders pool funds and strategically commission services together.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Co-commissioning offers a way to reduce fragmentation and reduce costs to service providers, potentially offering better public value.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Co-commissioning can initially take time and resources to establish.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Over time, as organisations learn, the cost of co-commissioning reduces potentially offering benefits to funders, providers, and service users.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8500.12599","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44517903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Policy learning and the COVID‐19 crisis: A systematic review of scholarship and key lessons for research and practice","authors":"B. Zaki, Ellen Wayenberg","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12598","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45604060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inter‐municipal cooperation and local government perspectives on community health and wellbeing","authors":"M. J. Morgan, E. Stratford, S. Harpur, S. Rowbotham, Daniel Chamberlain","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42113232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Organisational culture and information security awareness of Chinese grassroots civil servants: A mediated moderation model","authors":"Lin Chen, Jie Zhen, Kunxiang Dong, Zongxiao Xie","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12596","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43084076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deliberate disproportionate policy outcomes and regulating deforestation in Queensland, Australia","authors":"Henry Boer","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12593","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8500.12593","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper analyses the strategic interests that inform deforestation policies in Australia, and the variance in policy selections over time. A theory of deliberate policy disproportionality is used to analyse 20 years of regulatory reform in Queensland, focusing on the Vegetation Management Act (VMA) 1999. Application of the framework to this case suggests that political executives were prone to deliberately adopt (dis)proportionate policies as a strategic response to either manage or capitalise on stakeholder support or opposition to any proposed legislative change. The high variance in (dis)proportionate deforestation policies is attributed to how political executives respond to claims made by competing constituencies regarding the costs versus benefits of successive reforms. During key reform phases, policy under-reaction was the norm, and political executives intentionally limited the scope and effectiveness of the VMA 1999 due to perceived impacts on the agricultural sector. Political executives were highly responsive to the emotional investment of rural constituents and averse to introducing policies that required difficult trade-offs. Elections offered strategic opportunities for delivering more proportionate policies that balanced public environmental benefits with economic impacts, as evidenced by a conditional deforestation ban introduced between 2004 and 2012 and reinstated in 2018.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Points for practitioners</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Variance in Queensland's deforestation policy over time can be attributed to the intentional decisions by political executives to limit or expand the scope of regulations as a strategic response to stakeholder expectations.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Political executives were responsive to the costs versus environmental impacts/benefits of any deforestation reforms, but prone to policy under-reaction when the priority was managing the emotive reactions from rural constituencies.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>More proportionate regulations, such as the partial deforestation ban of 2004, aimed to balance environmental benefits with compensation for landholders but were only implemented when electorally beneficial.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Stakeholders have a significant influence on disproportionate deforestation policy design and governments will need to manage competing claims to deliver more durable policy outcomes.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42438204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the ‘forgotten fundamental’ in policy advisory systems research: Policy shops and the role(s) of core policy professionals","authors":"Andrea Migone,&nbsp;Michael Howlett","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12595","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8500.12595","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>During the past 30 years, research on policy analytical capacity's multidimensional nature and the evolution of policy advisory systems (PASs) has both increased knowledge of these processes and structures and opened new avenues of inquiry. While it is clear that changes in PASs in many countries have occurred - featuring processes such as the increased externalisation and politicisation of policy advice - studies of changes among the roles played by core policy professionals in advice provision have lagged. One aspect of this question concerns the nature and extent of changes in this ‘forgotten fundamental’ of advice systems related to how these professionals are arrayed within ‘policy shops’—that is organisational units identified in the 1960s and 1970s as the main organisational home of policy professionals in government. Whether or not such shops have changed from the central-integrated model identified in early studies and, if so, how, remain outstanding and foundational questions. Recent research in Canada has mapped the distribution of policy professionals at the central and provincial level and found more types of analysts and venues than in earlier eras— which range from the ‘classical’ integrated policy shops of the 1960s and 1970s which remain in central agencies and single-purpose line departments to the much more 'distributed' patterns found in many departments dealing with multiple or complex controversial issues. Using Canadian data, this study outlines the development of these organisational types and their distribution in government and discusses the implications of these changes for better understanding the work, and needs, of core professionals in policy advice systems. .</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Points for practitioners</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>‘Policy professionals’ or public employees specifically tasked with policy analysis in government are key players in policy advisory systems despite the addition of more external and internal actors in policy advice systems in recent years.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>How these advisors and analysts are organised in government, whether they work in clusters or small groups, and how they interact with other civil servants and policy-makers are a key determinant of their activities and influence in policy-making.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>In the policy sciences, work in the 1960s and 1970s established ‘the policy shop’, that is relatively small centrally located organisational units employing mainly policy analysts, as the main home of policy professionals ","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8500.12595","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44026168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Better bushfire safety decision‐making: Making sense of complexities and challenges surrounding ‘Stay or Go’ and the Australian Fire Danger Rating System","authors":"G. Dwyer, J. Schauble","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46248366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vale Siobhan O'Sullivan: Don't mourn, organise!","authors":"Jenny M. Lewis","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12594","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8500.12594","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is with a sense of privilege as well as loss that many are celebrating the contributions of Associate Professor Siobhan O'Sullivan, as well as mourning her. She passed away on 17 June 2023. Siobhan was an excellent scholar who made significant contributions to research on animal rights and welfare systems. She was also a tireless advocate for the disadvantaged—both humans and non-human animals. Her passion and service were exemplary, and she paved the way for new researchers in public management, political science, and animal welfare studies. Siobhan was both a thinker and a doer, who never tired of trying to make the world fairer.</p><p>Siobhan was employed at the University of New South Wales until illness stopped her from working a few months ago. She was much loved by her colleagues there and at the University of Melbourne where she was previously employed for 7 years. A great contributor to the animal studies, public management, and political science communities in Australia and around the world, many will remember not just her scholarship but also her personal charm and strength.</p><p>Siobhan was an integral part of the long-standing ‘welfare to work’ research team, based at the University of Melbourne. In 2015, <i>Getting Welfare to Work: Street Level Governance in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands</i> (co-authored with Mark Considine, Jenny M. Lewis and Els Sol) was published by Oxford University Press. The edited collection <i>Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance</i>, edited by O'Sullivan and Considine, was published in the same year by Wiley. In 2022, she published <i>Buying and Selling the Poor</i> (Sydney University Press), co-authored with Michael McGann and Mark Considine.</p><p>She conducted research into the delivery of contracted employment services in Australia, the United Kingdom, and around the world. Her research on the welfare state was widely published, and she contributed to research reports on social services and the welfare state for Australasian and international audiences, including in the <i>Australian Journal of Public Administration</i> (see Gallet et al., <span>2015</span>).</p><p>Siobhan's first and always greatest passion was animal rights. Her PhD, titled <i>Animal Visibility and Equality in Liberal Democratic States: A Study Into Animal Ethics and the Nature of Bias in Animal Protection Regulation</i>, was awarded in 2008 at the University of Sydney. This thesis formed the basis of her 2011 book <i>Animals, Equality and Democracy</i>, published by Palgrave Macmillan. She also co-edited the collection: <i>The Political Turn in Animal Ethics</i>, with Robert Garner, published by Rowman &amp; Littlefield in 2016. Her scholarship on animal studies also generated many journal articles.</p><p>She was a key figure in the ‘political turn’ in animal ethics, with animal ethics informed by political theory rather than moral philosophy. In <i>Animals, Eq","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8500.12594","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46675854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Opportunities and challenges of using workforce big data: Insights from a mixed methods study on flexible working","authors":"Miriam Glennie,&nbsp;Fiona Buick,&nbsp;Deborah Blackman,&nbsp;Vindhya Weeratunga,&nbsp;Massimiliano Tani,&nbsp;Damian West,&nbsp;Helen Dickinson","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12591","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8500.12591","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This Practice and Policy paper presents reflections on the opportunities and challenges of using a novel big data set, Microsoft 365 digital activity records, in a mixed method study of flexible working. Our experience identified methodological and ethical considerations for practitioners and researchers in public sector workforce analytics. The benefits include data captured in situ and over time for all employees. The limitations reflect the inadequacy of big data for representing the complexity of organisational behaviour and the need to accompany data collection with systems ensuring employee privacy and consent for the use of data not originally recorded for research or evaluation purposes. It contributes to knowledge through providing insights into what public sector big data sets contain and how such data can be accessed, interpreted, and used in workforce decision-making.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Points for practitioners</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Digital activity records are a useful form of big data for public sector workforce analytics.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Digital activity records can support the identification of potential risks within the workforce such as social isolation and excessive work hours.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Big data must be contextualised with qualitative or other additional data to interpret data patterns and generate meaningful implementation insights.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Privacy and consent processes may require revision to fully utilise workforce big data.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8500.12591","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47528106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining organisational subcultures: Machinery of Government mergers and emerging organisational microcultures","authors":"Theaanna Kiaos","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12590","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46786098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}