Posts tagged public service

Revisiting the purple zone in regulatory public service

Navigating the politics of public administration continues to challenge public servants of all levels. In this piece, Isabelle Patterson, a student in the Masters of Regulation and Governance at the ANU, reflects on the duality of her experiences as a regulator and how her academic research supports her in navigating this.

Policy and governance, PoliticsPower to Persuade11 July 2024regulation, public service

Alone Australian or collaboration for the nation we want?

Dr Millie Rooney, co-director of Australia Remade and long-time contributor here at Power to Persuade, has had some great ideas for new reality TV shows, following the success of ‘Alone Australia’. The question is - do we have contestants going it alone to survive, or a team effort to re-imagine a way for everyone to thrive?

Advocacy, Antipoverty Centre, Innovation, Issues, Lived experience, Policy and governancePower to Persuade26 September 2023Policy making, media, Poverty, welfare reform, welfare conditionality, Public Servants, public service

Will the work-from-home genie go back into the bottle?

In an article originally published by The Canberra Times, Dr Sue Williamson and Associate Professor Linda Colley discuss their recently released report Working During the Pandemic: From resistance to revolution. Their research found that the majority of public service employees want to continue the working from home arrangements some workplaces put in place during the coronavirus epidemic, and that while there are negative aspects to working from home, these are far outweighed by the positives. Governments may not find it as easy as they might hope to put this particular genie back in its bottle.

Innovation, Policy and governance, Women's ScorecardPower to Persuade21 October 2020work, Work-Life Balance, coronavirus, public service, Public Servants

Violence against public servants: risks and possible solutions

Violence and aggression perpetrated against frontline public servants is a serious issue, argues Steve Munns, psychologist, public servant and PhD scholar at the ANU’s School of Regulation and Global Governance.

Issues, Service DeliveryPower to Persuade7 October 2020public service, policy problem, crime, regulation, research

When design meets power: design thinking, public sector innovation and the politics of policymaking

Responding to the need for innovation, governments have begun experimenting with ‘design thinking’ approaches to reframe policy issues and generate new policy solutions. But what is new about design thinking and how does it compares to rational approaches to policymaking? Maria Katsonis discusses below.

The article orginally appeared in The Mandarin

Innovation, Policy and governancePower to Persuade17 October 2019public service, policy problem, politics and democracy

Putting value creation back into public value

While value creation has long been discussed in the private sector, the concept of value creation by the public sector is largely absent. Until recently there has been no clear role for the public sector to create value itself – the term ‘public value’ does not even exist in economics. However a new paper by Mariana Mazzucato and Josh Ryan-Collins at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose proposes ways that public value can be created using a theory of collective public value creation. This article orginally appeared in The Mandarin and is authored by Maria Katsonis.

Policy and governance, Service DeliveryPower to Persuade10 July 2019Public Servants, government, public service

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