Real institutional responses to neoliberalism in Australia

Title: Real institutional responses to neoliberalism in Australia
Creator: O'Neill, Phillip; Moore, Natalie
Relation: Geographical Research Vol. 43, no. 1, p. 19-28
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2005
Description: The paper defines the state's apparatus as a site of power and contestation. This view enables contingency in the realm of government to be taken seriously. Accordingly, the paper takes a critical view of the idea of neoliberalism as a general global process. The paper reviews Paul du Gay's history of the state's apparatus, including his nostalgia for bureaucracy and his disdain for entrepreneurship. The paper contrasts du Gay's stylised take with a study of shifts in institutional structures and behaviours in Australia's state apparatus since the mid 1970s leading to the present period of Howard neoliberalism. The paper positions these shifts in the context of Coombs-led institutional reform in Australia; it examines the potential for institutional resistances and responses; and draws implications for how we view institutions as having agency in the political processes of state apparatus reform.
Subject: Bureaucracy; Human services; Institution; Neoliberalism; Public service
Identifier: uon:430
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/25260
Identifier: ISSN:1745-5863
Language: eng
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