Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Contemporary Theories of Australian Politics
- Part II Politics in Everyday Australian Life
- Part III Elections
- Part IV Participation and Representation
- Part V Inside the Australian State
- Introduction to Part V
- 19 Parliament
- 20 Prime ministerial government in Australia
- 21 Politicisation and the executive
- 22 Delivering public policy
- 23 The courts
- 24 Federalism
- Part VI Contemporary Public Controversies
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- References
21 - Politicisation and the executive
from Part V - Inside the Australian State
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Contemporary Theories of Australian Politics
- Part II Politics in Everyday Australian Life
- Part III Elections
- Part IV Participation and Representation
- Part V Inside the Australian State
- Introduction to Part V
- 19 Parliament
- 20 Prime ministerial government in Australia
- 21 Politicisation and the executive
- 22 Delivering public policy
- 23 The courts
- 24 Federalism
- Part VI Contemporary Public Controversies
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- References
Summary
Institutionalists (see Chapter 2) would see the politicisation of the executive as a breakdown in, or at least a major evolution of, the institutional structures that have governed policy-making and policy implementation in Australia, because it undermines principles and practices long considered essential to Westminster democracies. The appointment of senior ministerial advisers, whose qualifications are sometimes as much to do with their party allegiance as their policy or administrative expertise, has also created a new set of actors for behaviouralists to study (Chapter 3). Elite democratic theorists would view this development as an extension of the ways in which governing elites seek to increase their advantages over challengers for power (Chapter 1). The same observation might be made by critical theorists in support of their view of politics as dominated by privileged socio-economic groups (Chapter 4).
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- Contemporary Politics in AustraliaTheories, Practices and Issues, pp. 237 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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