Overview
- Adopts a broad, holistic definition of the public servant, including diplomats, foreign service workers, front-line workers, civil servants, police officers and teachers
- Provides a country-comparative approach to the public servant
- Features up-to-date reviews of current research progress,, contemporary debates, and indications of fruitful areas for future research
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Helen Sullivan is a public policy researcher, teacher, advisor, and senior university leader. As Director of the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy, she heads Asia-Pacific’s leading public policy school. Helen’s research explores the changing nature of state-society relationships in the context of collaboration, urban politics, and public policy and service reform. Helen has a long-term commitment to bridging the gap between research and policy and in 2016 she was made a National Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia in recognition of her significant contribution to public administration. In 2019, Helen was elected to the Executive Board of the International Research Society on Public Management and elected President of the Australian Political Studies Association for the year 2020-21.
Helen Dickinson is Professor of Public Service Research and Director of the Public Service Research Group at theSchool of Business, University of New South Wales, Canberra. Her expertise is in public services, particularly in relation to topics such as governance, policy implementation and stewardship of 4th industrial revolution technologies. In 2015 Helen was made a Victorian Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and in 2019 awarded a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She has worked with a range of different levels of government, community organisations and private organisations in Australia, UK, New Zealand and Europe on research and consultancy programmes.
Hayley Henderson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Her research is focused on urban policymaking and collaborative governance in addressing complex urban problems. In particular, the focus of her work has been on urban renewal and river basin management in Australian and Argentine cities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant
Editors: Helen Sullivan, Helen Dickinson, Hayley Henderson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03008-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Political Science and International Studies, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03008-7Due: 03 May 2021
Topics: Public Policy, Comparative Politics, Governance and Government, Political Leadership, Political Communication, Public Administration