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 166-270 Australian Public Policy and Public Sector Change: Current Trends

Note

Available as 166-370 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Bruce Headey\ Linda Hancock

Prerequisites

Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd-/3rd-year coordinator.

Semester

2

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week for one semester

Subject Description

Recent debates and reforms in Australian and Victorian public policy and public sector management will be analysed. Topics include welfare policy, health policy, unemployment and gender issues. Major changes in the public sector, including privatisation and contracting out of services, will be assessed. Students will be encouraged to design and evaluate policy proposals.

Assessment

Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words

Prescribed Texts
  • Peter Saunders, Welfare and Inequality: National and International Perspectives on the Australian Welfare State. 1994.
  • Linda Hancock, Analysing Health Policy. 1997.
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