Professor Patrick Weller AO

Professor Patrick Weller AO, Director

B Arts (2nd Class Honours), M Arts, PhD, DLitt

Director, Centre for Governance and Public Policy

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Research expertise

  • Executive government
  • Politics and policy making in central governments in Westminster systems
  • Australian Politics
  • International civil servants

Publications

Books:

  • Institutions on the edge? capacities for governance (edited with M. Keating and J. Wanna), Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2000
  • Australia's Mandarins: The Frank and the Fearless? Allen and Unwin Australia, Sydney, 2001
  • The Changing World of Top Officials, Mandarins or Valets? edited with R. A. W. Rhodes, Open University Press, 2001
  • Are you being served? State, Citizens and Governance (edited with G. Davis), Allen and Unwin Australia, Sydney, 2001
  • The Engine Room of Government: The Queensland Premier's Department 1859-2001 (with J. Scott, R. Laurie and B. Stevens), University of Queensland press, St Lucia, 2001
  • Don't tell the Prime Minister , Scribe Books, Melbourne, 2002
  • The Governance of World Trade: International Civil Servants in the GATT/WTO (with Xu Yi-Chong), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2004
  • Westminster Legacies: Democracy and Responsible Government in Asia and the Pacific (edited with H. Patapan and J. Wanna). UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005
  • Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901 - 2006. UNSW Press, Sydney, 2007

Book chapters:

  • 'Introduction: the institutions of governance', In Keating, Wanna and Weller Institutions on the Edge: Capacity for Governance, Allen and Unwin, 2000
  • 'Cabinet government: an institution under pressure' (with M. Keating) in Institutions on the Edge: Capacity for Governance, Allen and Unwin, 2000, 'Political parties and the party system: challenges for effective governing,' (with L. Young) in Keating, Wanna and Weller Institutions on the Edge: Capacity for Governance, Allen and Unwin 2000
  • Rethinking Government's Roles and Operations (with Michael Keating), in Glyn Davis and Patrick Weller (eds) Are you being Served? State, Citizens and Governance, Allen and Unwin, 2000
  • The summit of their discontents: crisis or mere transition? in Glyn Davis and Patrick Weller (eds) Are you being Served? State, Citizens and Governance, Allen and Unwin, 2001
  • Enter Centre Stage: the departmental Secretaries (with Rod Rhodes), in R.A.W.Rhodes and Patrick Weller The Changing World of Top Officials: mandarins or servants? Open University press, 2001
  • Australia: Mandarins or Lemons? (with Liz Young) in R.A.W.Rhodes and Patrick Weller The Changing World of Top Officials: mandarins or servants? Open University Press, 2001
  • Antipodean Exceptionalism, European Traditionalism (with Rod Rhodes), in R.A.W.Rhodes and Patrick Weller The Changing World of Top Officials: mandarins or servants? Open University Press, 2001
  • The Commonwealth (with Jenny Fleming), in C.Sharman, J.Moon eds Australian Government and Politics: The Commonwealth, the States and the Territories, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2003
  • "International civil servants and multilateral negotiations (with Xu Yi-chong)", in Ross P Buckley (ed), The WTO and the Doha Round: The Changing Face of World Trade, Kluwer Law International, London, 2003
  • Parliament and Cabinet: The Centre of Government' in Governing Business and Globalisation (Curran and van Acker ed.) 2nd ed, Melbourne, Pearson Education, 2004.
  • 'Westminster transplanted and Westminster impacted: exploring political change'. In Haig Patapan, John Wanna and Patrick Weller (eds) Westminster Legacies: Democracy and Responsible Government in Asia and the Pacific. UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005 (with Rod Rhodes).
  • 'Transplanting Westminster to Nepal: the stuff of dreams dashed'. In Haig Patapan, John Wanna and Patrick Weller (eds) Westminster Legacies: Democracy and Responsible Government in Asia and the Pacific. UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005 (with Bishnu Sharma).

Journal articles:

  • 'Traditions of Australian governance' (with J. Wanna), Public Administration, 81/1 2003
  • 'Traditions of governance: interpreting the changing role of the public sector' (with M. Bevir and R.A.W. Rhodes), Public Administration, 81/1, 2003
  • 'Comparative Governance: Prospects and Lessons' (with Mark Bevir, R.A.W. Rhodes), Public Administration, 81/1, 2003
  • 'Cabinet Government: An elusive ideal?' Public Administration, 81/4, 2003, pp.701-722
  • 'Parliamentary Democracy in Australia' Parliamentary Affairs, 57/3, July 2004
  • 'Investigating power at the centre of government: surveying research on the Australian executive'. Australian Journal of Public Administration. Vol 64 (1) March 2005
  • 'Parliamentary accountability for non-statutory executive power: impossible dream or realistic aspiration?' Public Law Review 2005, No. 16 (4)

Recent research grants:

  • A.R.C Discovery Grant (with Professor Xu Yi-Chong), World Bank
  • A.R.C Discovery Grant (with Professor John Wanna, Professor R A W Rhodes and Dr Haig Patapan), Westminster transplanted, Westminster Implanted;
  • A.R.C Large Grant; Cabinet Government in Australia 1901-2000

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