@article{1442704, recid = {1442704}, author = {Shearer, Christine,}, title = {Constructing the craft of public administration : perspectives from Australia /}, pages = {1 online resource :}, note = {Includes index.}, abstract = {This book draws on empirical research to provide unique insight into the craft of public administration of the most senior echelons of the Australian Public Service (APS). An analysis is offered of public sector reforms and contemporary management ideas on which they were based, from the 1980s across Westminster polities. This book addresses how Departmental Secretaries construct their craft today amid such reforms, concluding with a conceptual model of the craft of public administration and implications for theory and practice. Christine Shearer is an Executive Director within the Australian Tax Office.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1442704}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81896-8}, }