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- First Page
- Preliminary Pages
- Preface
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Portrait of a life enthralled in politics and academe
- Section 1: Budgeting and financial management
- Introduction to Section 1: Public finance, budgeting and financial management
- 1. Reflections on John Wanna’s contributions to theory and practice
- 2. Australian budgeting and beyond: Exploring John Wanna’s scholarly surplus
- 3. Performance management for success: Public sector organisations in Australia and the Philippines
- 4. A system in adjustment: Australia’s evolving public budget management system
- 5. Contradictions in implementing performance management
- Section 2: Politics
- Introduction to Section 2: Queensland and Australian politics
- 6. Cabinet government: The least bad system of government?
- 7. ‘A long revolution’: The historical coverage of Queensland politics and government
- 8. Policymaking, party executives and parliamentary policy actors
- 9. Models of government–business relations: Industry policy preferences versus pragmatism
- Section 3: Public policy and administration
- Introduction to Section 3: Public policy and public administration
- 10. Beyond new public governance
- 11. Chinese public administration developments and prospects: An Australian (and Hong Kong) perspective
- 12. Coming to terms with the state
- Section 4: Working with practitioners
- Introduction to Section 4: Working with practitioners
- 13. Engaging with government: A confessional tale
- 14. Neoliberalism? That’s not how practitioners view public sector reform
- 15. Of ‘trifles’ and ‘manhole covers’: The practitioner–academic interface
- Appendix 1: John Wanna’s main publications
- Appendix 2: Higher degree students supervised by John Wanna 1983–2020
