RESq: Reform of Employment Services quorum

 

Steering Group

Considine, M (Mark )

Research Areas

• governance studies
• comparative social policy
• employment services
• public sector reform
• local development and organisational sociology

Current Projects

• Mark Considine’s current research has two related strands. He is involved in comparative studies of the reform of employment services in Australia, the UK, the Netherlands and other OECD countries. This work builds upon his four country study of reform in Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the Netherlands, published as Enterprising States: The Public Management of Welfare to Work (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
• A second set of projects looks at the emergence of networks as an alternative to markets and hierarchies in the organisation of government and new governance systems. Networks in this case include both personal ties or affiliations among political actors, as well as institutional linkages or relationships.

Notable Publications

• Considine, M, J. Lewis and O'Sullivan, S. (2011). Quasi-Markets and Service Delivery Flexibility Following a Decade of Employment Assistance Reform in Australia. Journal of Social Policy doi:10.1017/S0047279411000213 (Journal Impact Factor 1.034)
• Considine, M, J. Lewis and O'Sullivan, S. (2010). Social Policy from Left to Right: A ten year Comparison of Services for the Unemployed in Australia and the UK’, Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Conference, University of Melbourne.
• O'Sullivan, S, Considine, M and J. Lewis. (2009). John Howard and the Neo-liberal Agenda: The regulation and reform of Australia’s privatised employment services sector between 1996 and 2008’, Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Conference .
• Considine, M, J. Lewis and O'Sullivan, S. (2009). Innovation and standardisation in the delivery of employment services in Australia and the UK’, Unemployment and the Global Financial Crisis: Policy, Partnerships and Practice Conference, Melbourne.
• Considine, M, Lewis, J and Alexander, D. (2008). Governance, networks and civil society: How local governments connect to local organisations and groups. Strategic Issues for the not-for profit Sector.
• Considine, M, J. Lewis and O'Sullivan, S. (2008). Activating States: transforming the delivery of ‘welfare to work’ services in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands. Report to UK Providers.
• Considine, M, J. Lewis and O'Sullivan, S. (2008). Activating States: transforming the delivery of ‘welfare to work’ services in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands. Report to Australian providers.
• Considine, M and Lewis, J. (2007). Innovation and Innovators Inside Government: From Institutions to Networks. Governance - An International Journal of Policy and Administration, 20(4), 581-607.
• Considine, M, Lewis, J and Alexander, D. (2007). The Networking Behaviour of Politicians and Bureaucrats: Understanding innovation inside government. Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA).
• Considine, M. (2006). Theorizing the University as a Cultural System: Distinctions, Identities, Emergencies. Educational Theory, 56(3), 255-270.
• Considine, M. (2006). The Power of Networks: Institutional Transformations in the Global Era? Democratic Network Governance.
• Considine, M and Hart, A. (2006). Designing Local Governance Partnerships: Issues and Dynamics in Two Australian Cases. Governments and Communities in Partnership: From Theory to Practice.
• Considine, M. (2005). Making Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies.
• Considine, M. (2005). Steering, Efficiency and Partnership: The Australian Quasi-Market for Public Employment Services. In Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F (Eds.), Employment Policy From Different Angles (pp. 191-210).
• Considine, M and Lewis, J. (2005). 'Mapping the Normative Underpinnings of Local Governance. In Smyth, P, Reddell, T and Jones, A (Eds.), Community and Local Governance in Australia (pp. 205-225).
• Considine, M. (2005). 'The Reform that Never Ends: Quasi-Markets and Employment Services in Australia. In Westerveld, M and Sol, CCAM (Eds.), Contractualism in Employment Services: A New Form of Welfare State Governance (pp. 41-71).
• Considine, M. (2005). The baby and the Bath water: The impact of American-Style Sctiovation Policies on Families. No Time to Lose.
• Considine, M. (2005). Partnerships, Relationships and Networks: Understanding Local Collaboration Strategies in Different Countries. Local Government and the Drivers of Growth.
• Considine, M. (2005). Local Governance and the Drivers of Growth. Partnerships, relationships and networks: Understanding local collaboration strategies in different countries.
• Considine, M and Lewis, J. (2003). 'Working with Networks: Explaining service delivery strategies in public and private organisations as networking effects. Journal of European Public Policy, 10(1), 46-58.
• Considine, M and Lewis, J. (2003). Enterprise Governance: The Frontline Bureaucrat in Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Public Administration Review, 36(2), 131-140.

---