Michael Mintrom

Michael Mintrom is a Professor of Public Sector Management at Monash University, and an Academic Director at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. His research and writing addresses how leaders promote political and policy change; what drives innovation in public policymaking and in organisations; and what constitutes effective policy analysis.

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Lessons from Australia and New Zealand

Publication date: April 2019
In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly ‘see’—let alone recognise and explain—variations in government performance when media, political and academic discourses are saturated with accounts of their shortcomings and failures, but are next to silent on their achievements. Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Australia…