Learning to Be a Minister
Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities
$46.52
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
6 August 2010
Summary
In 1981, academic Patrick Weller teamed up with renowned political commentator and journalist Michelle Grattan to publish Can Ministers Cope?, a study of the challenges facing Australia’s federal government ministers.
With the federal Labor government just twenty months into its first term in office, it was time to revisit the question ‘Can ministers cope?’ and to broaden the focus to ask how they cope, especially as relatively young and sometimes inexperienced players, in th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522857986 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522857981 |
| Author: | Patrick Weller, Anne Tiernan |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 6 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 155mm x 235mm |
Critics Review
“Entertaining and accessible through … surprisingly candid opinions from ministers past and present.”
Entertaining and accessible through … surprisingly candid opinions from ministers past and present.” —Courier Mail
“A must for anybody interested in where the real work of politics occurs.” —Weekend Australia
Patrick Weller
Anne Tiernan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and Public Policy at Griffith University. She is author of Power Without Responsibility. Her research addresses the capacity and performance of executive advisory systems, and particularly relations between partisan and non-partisan advisers. Dr Tiernan sits on the Board of Commissioners of the Queensland Public Service Commission and regularly advises governments on public sector issues.
Patrick Weller, AO, a graduate of Oxford and the ANU, is the Premier of Queensland Chair of Public Management and Director of the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University, where he has held a chair since 1984. He is the author, co-author or editor of some 36 books on Australian politics and comparative institutions, including Malcolm Fraser- Prime Minister, Australia’s Mandarins and Cabinet Government in Australia.
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