Important policy problems rarely fit neatly within existing territorial boundaries. More difficult still, individual governments or government departments rarely enjoy the power, resources and governance structures required to respond effectively to policy challenges under their responsibility. These dilemmas impose the requirement to work with others from the public, private, non-governmental organisation (NGO) or community spheres, and across a range of administrative levels and sectors. But how? This book investigates the challenges--both conceptual and practical--of multi-level governance processes. It draws on a range of cases from Australian public policy, with comparisons to multi-level governance systems abroad, to understand factors behind the effective coordination and management of multi-level governance processes in different policy areas over the short and longer term. Issues such as accountability, politics and cultures of governance are investigated through policy areas including social, environmental and spatial planning policy. The authors of the volume are a range of academics and past public servants from different jurisdictions, which allows previously hidden stories and processes of multi-level governance in Australia across different periods of government to be revealed and analysed for the first time.

Part 1: Conceptual Challenges. Multi-level Governance: An Introduction / Katherine A. Daniell and Adrian Kay -- Multi-level Governance and the Study of Australian Federalism / Adrian Kay -- Rethinking Federalism: Network Governance, Multi-level Governance and Australian Politics / Paul Fawcett and David Marsh -- Accountability in Multi-level Governance: The Example of Australian Federalism / Richard Mulgan -- Multi-level Governmentality / Paul Dugdale -- Multi-level Governance as Political Theory / Russell Kerr -- Part 2: Education and Social Policy. Negotiating the Early Childhood Education Revolution: An Exercise in Multi-level Governance / Trish Mercer and Wendy Jarvie -- The Deployment of an Epistemic Model of Multi-level Governance: A Study of Differences in Hearing / Anthony Hogan -- Multi-level Governance in Aboriginal Community Development: Structures, Processes and Skills for Working across Boundaries / Wendy Jarvie and Jenny Stewart -- Part 3: Spatial and Planning Policy. Multi-level Housing Policy in Australia / Patrick Troy -- Multi-level Governance in Integrated Land Use and Natural Resource Planning on the Urban Fringe: A Case Study of Processes and Structures for Governing across Boundaries / Iris Iwanicki, Kathryn Bellette and Stephen Smith -- Regional Solutions for Multi-level Governance Challenges in Australian Coastal and Climate Change Planning / Barbara Norman and Nicole Gurran -- Multi-level Governance in the Lake Eyre Basin: Meeting in the Middle? / Kate Andrews -- Part 4: Environmental and Agricultural Policy. Natural Resource Management as a Form of Multi-level Governance: The Impact of Reform in Queensland and Tasmania / Allan Dale, Sarah Ryan and Kathleen Broderick -- Multi-level Integrated Water Governance: Examples from New South Wales and Colorado / Andrew Ross -- Private Actors in Multi-level Governance: GLOBALG. A.P. Standard-setting for Agricultural and Food Products / Anne McNaughton and Stewart Lockie -- Breaking Down the 'One-Size-Fits-All' Approach to Rural and Regional Policy: Enhancing Policy Initiatives through Multi-level Governance / Katherine A. Daniell, Anthony Hogan and Jen Cleary -- What Remains Unwritten? Developing a Critical Evaluation of Multi-level Governance and its Futures in Australian Public Policy and Politics / Katherine A. Daniell and Trish Mercer.

Multi-level governance : an introduction -- Multi-level governance and the study of Australian federalism -- Rethinking federalism : network governance, multi-level governance and Australian politics -- Accountability in multi-level governance : the example of Australian federalism -- Multi-level governmentality -- Multi-level governance as political theory -- Negotiating the early childhood education revolution : an exercise in multi-level governance -- The deployment of an epistemic model of multi-level governance : a study of differences in hearing -- Multi-level governance in aboriginal community development : structures, processes and skills for working across boundaries -- Multi-level housing policy in Australia -- Multi-level governance in integrated land use and natural resource planning on the urban fringe : a case study of processes and structures for governing across boundaries -- Regional solutions for multi-level governance challenges in Australian coastal and climate change planning -- Multi-level governance in the Lake Eyre basin : meeting in the middle? -- Natural resource management as a form of multi-level governance : the impact of reform in Queensland and Tasmania -- Multi-level integrated water governance : examples from new South Wales and Colorado -- Private actors in multi-level governance : GLOBALG. A.P. standard-setting for agricultural and food products -- Breaking down the 'one-size-fits-all' approach to rural and regional policy : enhancing policy initiatives through multi-level governance -- What remains unwritten? : developing a critical evaluation of multi-level governance and its futures in Australian public policy and politics.

Includes bibliographical references.

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