Learning to Be a Minister
Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities
Melbourne University Press
Will be published approx. on 6. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-522-85798-6 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on extensive interviews with current and former ministers, ministerial staffers, and senior officials, this in-depth examination offers insight into the Australian political and democratic processes. Exploring the lives of Australia's federal ministers at work, this revealing account investigates how a new ministry learns and adapts to the responsibilities of governing as well as the means by which ministers learn to juggle time and other resources in their simultaneous, and sometimes conflicting, roles-as members of Parliament and Cabinet, as local constituency representatives, and as media spokespersons.
Reviews / Votes
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
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Carlton
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-522-85798-6 (9780522857986)
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Persons
Anne Tiernan is a senior lecturer in the school of politics and public policy at Griffith University in Australia and the author of Power Without Responsibility: Ministerial Staffers in Australian Governments from Whitlam to Howard.
Patrick Weller is the Premier of Queensland Chair of Public Management and the director of the Center for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University.
Patrick Weller is the Premier of Queensland Chair of Public Management and the director of the Center for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University.