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dc.contributor.authorKane, J
dc.contributor.authorBishop, P
dc.contributor.editorGlyn Davis, John Wanna
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:04:46Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:04:46Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.date.modified2009-11-05T06:03:52Z
dc.identifier.issn0313-6647
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-8500.00261
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/7106
dc.description.abstractThis paper argues that public consultative procedures undertaken by governments or their public services sometimes go awry because of certain confusions as to the nature and purposes of consultation. One of the most important of these is a tendency to view consultation as an exercise in policy determination by the public rather than as public input into the representative democratic process whose ultimate use is to be defined by the elected decision-makers. The result of this confusion is a tendency to misunderstand or overestimate what public consultations can achieve, and a failure to make a distinction between occasions when such consultations are useful and occasions when they must give way to explicit political contest. Three levels of activity - the technical, the transactional and the political - are analytically distinguished along with the modes of action-response appropriate to each - in order to explain and clarify the nature of good consultative practice.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltd.
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.publisher.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8500.00261
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom87
dc.relation.ispartofpageto94
dc.relation.ispartofeditionMarch 2002
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Journal of Public Administration
dc.relation.ispartofvolume61
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEconomics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommerce, management, tourism and services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman society
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode38
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode35
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode44
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4407
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.titleConsultation and Contest: the Danger of Mixing Modes
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, School of Government and International Relations
gro.rights.copyright© 2002 Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version is available at [www.blackwell-synergy.com.]
gro.date.issued2002
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorKane, John


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