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<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Adams, David</span> and <span class="person_name">Hess, Michael</span> (2006) <xhtml:em>New research instruments for government: measuring community engagement.</xhtml:em> In: Making Knowledge Work: Sustaining Learning Communities and Regions. . National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, Leicester, UK, pp. 67-83. ISBN 1 86201 246 6/978 186201 246 2</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1970/1/Adams%26Hess_2006_BkChpt.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1970/1/Adams%26Hess_2006_BkChpt.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />1598Kb</td></tr></table><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Australian contemporary public administration is characterised by the re-emergence of community as a useful category across a range of policy-making and service delivery areas. The background to this introduction of social factors to balance the market oriented instruments of the New Public Management (NPM) has been the subject of considerable commentary (Smyth et al., 2005; Vinson, 2004; Considine, 2004). Less attention has been paid to the actual instruments needed to make community a practical part of policy making and public management. This chapter outlines progress to date in Victoria in establishing what could become a national measurement framework for engaging communities.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Book Chapter</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Community engagement; public administration; policy making; service delivery; New Public Management</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/360201.html">360000 Policy and Political Science > 360200 Policy and Administration > 360201 Public Policy</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/360202.html">360000 Policy and Political Science > 360200 Policy and Administration > 360202 Public Administration</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">1970</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Ms Sophie Jerrim</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">28 Sep 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=1970;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=1970">item control page</a></p>
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