The post-war period and the Whitlam government -- The Fraser government -- The Hawke-Keating governments -- The Howard government -- The Rudd-Gillard governments -- The Abbott-Turnbull governments -- The national story and policy legitimacy -- Professionalisation and technical legitimacy --...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the current state of political and administrative ethnography in political science and public administration before suggesting that focus groups are a useful tool in the study of governing elites. They provide an alternative way of “being...

How do bureaucracies remember? The conventional view is that institutional memory is static and singular, the sum of recorded files and learned procedures. There is a growing body of scholarship that suggests contemporary bureaucracies are failing at this core task. This Element argues that this...