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PROF MARK CONSIDINE



Contact Details

Organization: Arts
Position: DEAN OF ARTS
Email:
Homepage: http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/considine.html
Work: +61 3 8344 5242
Fax: +61 3 8344 4938
Room: 117
Level: 01
Building: Old Arts Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Comparative studies of the reform of employment services in Australia, the UK, the Netherlands and other OECD countries. The emergence of networks as an alternative to markets and hierarchies in the organisation of government and new governance systems. Australia, United Kingdom, Netherlands, New Zealand

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Fostering Innovation Inside Government: The Role of Structural & Personal Networks in Improving Innovation Performance Among Politicians & Bureaucrats Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Social policy & transitional Labour markets in Australia Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2003
Creating collaborative advantage through better network governance: a comparative study of new institutions and instruments. Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
CONNECTING GOVERNMENT TO COMMUNITY: A STUDY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONNECTIVITY AT THE MUNICIPAL LEVEL Chief Investigator MARIBYRNONG CITY COUNCIL,
VIC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION,
CITY OF PORT PHILLIP,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
KNOX CITY COUNCIL,
MANNINGHAM CITY COUNCIL		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006
Boundary making and strategy making in knowledge-forming organisations Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008
Activating states: transforming the delivery of 'welfare to work' services to the long-term unemployed in Australia, Great Britain and the Netherlands Chief Investigator JOBS AUSTRALIA LTD,
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICES ASSOC,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
COMMITTEES OF MANAGEMENT AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE SOCIAL CAPITAL OF VICTORIAN COMMUNITIES Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT - USE CUST 57383 01/05/2005

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

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


    Year: 2008
    Book: Strategic Issues for the not-for profit Sector
    Publisher: University of New South Wales Press(Sydney)
    Authors(s):

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Who are the innovators inside government? The importance of networks


    Year: 2008
    Event name: TASA
    Conference Publication: TASA: Re- Imagining Sociology
    Page numbers: 1-20
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Innovation and Innovators Inside Government: From Institutions to Networks
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Governance - An International Journal of Policy and Administration
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 581-607
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Conference Publications/Papers

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


    Year: 2007
    Event name: Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA)
    Conference Publication: Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA)
    Page numbers: 1-22
    Publisher: Monash University(Melbourne)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Theorizing the University as a Cultural System: Distinctions, Identities, Emergencies
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Educational Theory
    Volume: 56
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 255-270
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Designing Local Governance Partnerships: Issues and Dynamics in Two Australian Cases
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Governments and Communities in Partnership: From Theory to Practice
    Conference Publication: Governments and Communities in Partnership: From Theory to Practice
    Page numbers: 35
    Author(s):
  • The Power of Networks: Institutional Transformations in the Global Era?
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Democratic Network Governance
    Conference Publication: Democratic Network Governance
    Page numbers: 26
    Publisher: Roskilde University
    Author(s):

Publications in 2005

Books

  • Making Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Polity Press(Cambridge)
    Authors(s):

Book Chapters

  • Local Governance and the Drivers of Growth
    Year: 2005
    Book: Partnerships, relationships and networks: Understanding local collaboration strategies in different countries
    Publisher: OECD Publications(Paris)
    Authors(s):
  • Mapping the Normative Undepinnings of Local Governance
    Year: 2005
    Book: Community and Local Governance in Australia
    Publisher: University of New South Wales Press(Sydney)
    Authors(s):
  • Partnerships, Relationships and Networks: Understanding Local Collaboration Strategies in Different Countries
    Year: 2005
    Book: Local Government and the Drivers of Growth
    Publisher: OECD Publications(Paris)
    Authors(s):
  • Steering, efficiency and partnership: the Australian quasi-market for public employment services
    Year: 2005
    Book: Employment Policy from Different Angles
    Publisher: DJOF Publishers(Copenhagen)
    Authors(s):
  • The baby and the Bath water: The impact of American-Style Sctiovation Policies on Families
    Year: 2005
    Book: No Time to Lose
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
    Authors(s):
  • The reform that never ends: quasi-markets and employment services in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Book: Contractualism in Employment Services
    Publisher: Kluwer Law International(The Hague)
    Authors(s):

Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Local partnerships: different histories, common challenges - a synthesis
    Year: 2003
    Book: Managing decentralisation: a new role for labour market policy
    Publisher: OECD Publications(Paris)
    Authors(s):

Journal Articles

  • Bureaucracy, network, or enterprise? Comparing models of governance in Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Public Administration Review
    Volume: 63
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 131-140
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Massachusetts)
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  • Governance and competition: the role of non-profit organisations in the delivery of public services
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Journal of Political Science
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 63-77
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Basingstoke)
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  • Networks and interactivity: making sense of front line governance in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Australia
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of European Public Policy
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 46-58
    Publisher: Routledge
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Major Reference Works

  • :Much obliged: disadvantaged job seekers' experiences of the mutual obligation regime
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Brotherhood of St Laurence(Fitzroy)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • The end of the line? Accountable governance in the age of networks, partnerships, and joined-up services
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Governance - An International Journal of Policy and Administration
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 21-40
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Massachusetts)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Enterprise governance: the limits and shortcomings of quasi-markets as a tool of social policy - the case of Australia's economic services reforms
    Year: 2002
    Event name: New players, partners and processes: a public service without boundaries?
    Conference Publication: New players, partners and processes: a public service without boundaries?
    Page numbers: 1-20
    Publisher: National Insitute for Governance(Canberra)
    Author(s):
  • Joined at the lip? What does network research tell us about governance?
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Knowledge, networks and joined-up government
    Conference Publication: Knowledge, networks and joined-up government
    Page numbers: 153-168
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne - Centre for Public Policy(Melbourne)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2001

Books

Book Chapters

  • Taking the Measure of New Governance
    Year: 2001
    Book: Enterprising States. The Public Management of Welfare-to-Work
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
    Authors(s):

Reports

  • The comparative performance of Australia as a knowledge nation


    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Centre for Research in International Education, Monash University(Melbourne)
    Authors:
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