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- Title
Community engagement and public administration: Of silos, overlays and technologies of government.
- Authors
Boxelaar, Lucia; Paine, Mark; Beilin, Ruth
- Abstract
The public policy process in Australia is changing towards a more interactive, collaborative model, where governments seek to develop partnerships with civil society and private sector organisations to manage complex policy challenges. This article discusses research conducted into a project implemented by a Victorian government department that sought to involve stakeholders in addressing natural resource management issues in the agricultural sector. The research revealed that public administration practices associated with the new public management approach impeded the ability of the project to facilitate participation by diverse stakeholders in the decision-making process. The article challenges the view that the discourse of collaboration and community engagement takes public administration down a constructivist path and suggests that agencies need to become reflexive about the way in which public administration practices are constitutive of the community engagement process if they are to facilitate genuine participation of other stakeholders.
- Subjects
VICTORIA; NATURAL resource policy; PUBLIC administration; POLITICAL planning; GOVERNMENT policy; AGRICULTURAL policy
- Publication
Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2006, Vol 65, Issue 1, p113
- ISSN
0313-6647
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8500.2006.00476.x