Collaborative Federalism: Economic Reform in Australia in the 1990s (Reshaping Australian Institutions)
Cambridge University Press, 8/3/1998
EAN 9780521590716, ISBN10: 052159071X
Hardcover, 218 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
This provocative 1998 study of federalism identifies a pattern of intergovernmental relations in Australia. Through his general discussion of the nature of the Australian federal system, and close analysis of recent developments in Australian politics and policy-making, Painter argues that our federal system is being fundamentally reshaped as state and commonwealth governments cooperate more closely than ever before on joint policy-making schemes. Much of this collaboration has been prompted by the need for microeconomic reform in the 1990s, and increasing concern about the degree of overlap, inefficiency and duplication across the federal system. The book includes a narrative account of the often fraught progress of the Special Premier's Conferences and the Council of Australian Governments. It also includes detailed discussion of a number of key examples.
1. National problems, federal solutions
2. The theory and practice of cooperative federalism
3. SPC, COAG and the politics of collaboration
4. Achieving cooperation
players and processes
5. The machinery of intergovernmental relations
an institutional analysis
6. The institutions of collaborative federalism
7. Duplication and overlap
new roles, old battles
8. The future of collaborative federalism
List of references
Index.