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  • Overblown or Overload? Ministerial Staff and Dilemmas of Executive Advice

    Author
    Tiernan, Anne-Maree
    Year published
    2006
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    Abstract
    Ministerial staff provide essential support to overworked ministers, but their position within Australia's system of government is unclear. Their involvement in a variety of controversies has raised questions about whether they pose a challenge to traditional Westminster principles, particularly relationships between ministers and their public service advisers. Ministerial staff are growing in number and power, but fall outside parliamentary scrutiny; their presence may allow ministers to evade responsibility. There is an obvious management gap in their supervision. Better ways must be found to accommodate their presence and ...
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    Ministerial staff provide essential support to overworked ministers, but their position within Australia's system of government is unclear. Their involvement in a variety of controversies has raised questions about whether they pose a challenge to traditional Westminster principles, particularly relationships between ministers and their public service advisers. Ministerial staff are growing in number and power, but fall outside parliamentary scrutiny; their presence may allow ministers to evade responsibility. There is an obvious management gap in their supervision. Better ways must be found to accommodate their presence and prevent damage being done to political institutions and processes.
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    Journal Title
    Social Alternatives
    Volume
    25
    Issue
    3
    Publisher URI
    http://www.socialalternatives.com/
    http://www.socialalternatives.com/catalogue.php?yrs=2006
    Copyright Statement
    © 2006 Social Alternatives. Self-archiving of the author-manuscript version is not yet supported by this publisher. Please use the hypertext link above to access the journal's website or contact the author for more information.
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/12584
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