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Reintegrating Government in Third Generation Reforms of Australia and New Zealand

University of Canberra, Australia,John.Halligan{at}canberra.edu.au

Public sector reform has persisted for a sufficient length of time in several countries to examine patterns over the longer term. Australia and New Zealand are both early and long-term reforming countries that display distinctive features as well as being Anglophone countries identified with new public management. As third generation reformers, the products of more than two decades of reform activity are becoming clearer: the starker manifestations of new public management have less prominence now and a set of distinctive trends has emerged with commonalities across the two countries. The synthesis of elements in the third generation suggests that system integration and performance are central to the prevailing approach and that an emergent model is best represented in the mid-2000s as integrating governance. The article explores the constituent elements and significance of the new model and its relationship to earlier models.

Key Words: Australia • integrated governance • new public management • New Zealand • public sector reform • third generation reforms

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Public Policy and Administration, Vol. 22, No. 2, 217-238 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0952076707075899


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