Professor Patrick Weller AO

B Arts (Hons), M Arts, PhD, DLitt

Professor, Griffith Business School

Contact details for Professor Patrick Weller

Research expertise

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

Current teaching areas

• Australian politics
• Public sector management

Publications

Recent refereed journal articles

• (with Xu Yi-chong) (forthcoming, 2008) 'To be but not to be seen', exploring the impact of International Civil Servants, Public Administration, forthcoming, 2008.
• Weller, P. (2006) The Australian Senate: House of Review, Obstruction or Rubber Stamp? Social Alternatives, 25 (3), 2006, 13-18.
• Weller, P. (2005) Parliamentary Accountability for non-statutory executive power: impossible dream or realistic aspiration? Public Law Review, 16 (40, 314-324, December 2005.
• Weller, P. (2005) Investigating Power at the Centre of Government: Surveying Research on the Australian Executive. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 64 (1), March 2005, 35-42.
• Weller, P. (2004) Parliamentary Democracy in Australia, Parliamentary Affairs, 57/3, July 2004, pp. 630-645.
• Weller, P. (2003) Cabinet Government: An elusive ideal?, Public Administration, 81 / 4, pp. 701-722.
• Weller, P., Bevir, M. and Rhodes, R.A.W. (2003) Comparative Governance: Prospects and Lessons, Public Administration, 81 / 1, pp. 191-210 (Special Edition: Traditions of Governance: History and diversity, edited by Mark Bevir, R.A.W. Rhodes and Patrick Weller).
• Weller, P., Bevir, M. and Rhodes, R.A.W. (2003) Traditions of governance: interpreting the changing role of the public sector, Public Administration, 81 / 1, pp. 1-19 (Special Edition: Traditions of Governance: History and diversity, edited by Mark Bevir, R.A.W. Rhodes and Patrick Weller).
• Weller, P. and Wanna, J. (2003) Traditions of Australian governance, Public Administration, 81 / 1, pp. 63-94 (Special Edition: Traditions of Governance: History and diversity, edited by Mark Bevir, R.A.W. Rhodes and Patrick Weller).
• Weller, P. (2002) Australia's experience of Good Governance, Damrong Rajanuphab Journal, 2 / 6 (2545), pp. 67-81 (In Thai).

Books

• Weller, P. (2007) Cabinet Government in Australia 1901-2006, UNSW Press, Sydney 2007.
• Weller, P., Wanna, J., Patapan H. (Eds.) (2005) Westminster Legacies. UNSW Press, Sydney 2005.
• Weller, P. and Yi-Chong, X. (2004) The Governance of World Trade: International Civil Servants in the GATT/WTO, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
• Weller, P. (2002) Don't tell the Prime Minister, Scribe Books, Melbourne, 104.
• Weller, P., Scott, J., Laurie, R. and Stevens, B. (2001) The Engine Room of Government: The Queensland Premier's Department 1859-2001, University of Queensland press, St Lucia, xiv+434.
• Weller, P. and Davis, G. (2001) Are you being served? State, Citizens and Governance, Allen and Unwin Australia, Sydney, 204.
• Weller, P. and Rhodes, R.A.W. (Eds.) (2001) The Changing World of Top Officials, Mandarins or Valets?, Open University Press, xii+274.
• Weller, P. (2001) Australia's Mandarins: The Frank and the Fearless?, Allen and Unwin Australia, Sydney, vii+256.
• Weller, P., Keating, M. and Wanna, J. (2000) Institutions on the edge? Capacities for governance, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, x+272.

Book chapters

• Weller, P. (2004, forthcoming) The truth, not the whole truth and nothing like the truth, in L. Dobrez (Ed.), Lying, Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing.
• Weller, P. and Rhodes, R.A.W. (2003) Localism and Exceptionalism: comparing public sector reforms in European and Westminster systems, in T. Butcher and A. Massey (Eds.), Modernising Civil Services, Edward Elgar, 16-36.
• Weller, P. (2003) The Australian Public Service: Still Anonymous, Neutral and a Career Service?, in K. Walsh (Ed.), Papers on Parliament: Bicameralism and Accountability, number 40, The Senate, Canberra, December, pp. 79-94.
• Weller, P. and Yi-Chong X. (2003) International civil servants and multilateral negotiations, in P. Ross Buckley (Ed.), The WTO and the Doha Round: The Changing Face of World Trade, Kluwer Law International, London, 89-114.
• Weller, P. and Fleming, J. (2003) The Commonwealth, in C. Sharman and J. Moon (Eds.), Australian Government and Politics: The Commonwealth, the States and the Territories, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 12-40.
• Weller, P. (2002) Governing Australia, in P. Duncan and Maddock, R. (Eds.), Aspire Australia, The Business Council of Australia, Melbourne, pp. 79-88.
• Weller, P. (2002) Parliament and Cabinet: the Institutions of Governance, in E. Van Acker and G. Curran (Eds.), Business, Government and Globalisation, Longmans, pp. 61-72.
• Weller, P. and Rhodes, R. (2001) Antipodean Exceptionalism, European Traditionalism, in R.A.W. Rhodes and P. Weller (Eds.), The Changing World of Top Officials: mandarins or servants?, Open University Press, 229-255.
• Weller, P. and Young, L. (2001) Australia: Mandarins or Lemons?, in R.A.W. Rhodes and P. Weller (Eds.), The Changing World of Top Officials: mandarins or servants?, Open University Press, 152-188.
• Weller, P. and Rhodes, R. (2001) Enter Centre Stage: the departmental Secretaries, in R.A.W. Rhodes and P. Weller (Eds.), The Changing World of Top Officials: mandarins or servants?, Open University press, 1-10.
• Weller, P. and Fleming, J. (2001) The Ballot is the thing: The Labor Campaign in 1901, in M. Simms (Ed.), 1901: The Forgotten Election, University of Queensland press, 117-134.
• Weller, P. (2001) The summit of their discontents: Crisis or mere transition?, in G. Davis and P. Weller (Eds.), Are you being Served? State, Citizens and Governance, Allen and Unwin, 196-204.
• Weller, P. and Keating, M. (2001) Rethinking Government's Roles and Operations, in G. Davis and P. Weller (Eds.), Are you being Served? State, Citizens and Governance, Allen and Unwin, 73-97.
• Weller, P. (2001) Ministerial Codes, Cabinet Rules and the Power of Prime Ministers, in J. Fleming and I. Holland (Eds.), Motivating Ministers to Morality, Ashgate, 49-60.
• Weller, P. and Stevens, B. (2001) Partner or Rival? Caucus and Cabinet, in S. McIntyre and J. Faulkner (Eds.), True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, Allen and Unwin, 173-183.
• Weller, P. and Young, L. (2000) Political parties and the party system: challenges for effective governing, in M. Keating, J. Wanna and P. Weller (Eds.), Institutions on the Edge: Capacity for Governance, Allen and Unwin, 156-177.
• Weller, P. and Keating, M. (2000) Cabinet government: an institution under pressure, in M. Keating, J. Wanna and P. Weller (Eds.), Institutions on the Edge: Capacity for Governance, Allen and Unwin, 45-73.
• Weller, P. (2000) Introduction: the institutions of governance, in M. Keating, J. Wanna and P. Weller (Eds.), Institutions on the Edge: Capacity for Governance, Allen and Unwin, 1-9.
• Weller, P. (2000) Introduction: In search of governance, in G. Davis and M. Keating (Eds.), The Future of Australian Governance: Policy Options, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1-7.
• Weller, P. (2000) Australia, in G. Peters, V. Wright and R.A.W. Rhodes (Eds.), Administering the Summit, Macmillan, London, pp. 59-78.

Book reviews

• M. Edwards (2002) Social Policy, Public Policy, Australian Journal of Political Science, (59) Kevin Theakston, Leadership in Whitehall, Public Administration, 80 (1), 215-16.
• R.A.W. Rhodes (Ed.) (2001) Transforming British Government, Volume 2: Changing Roles and Relationships; Kevin Theakston, Bureaucrats and Leadership, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 60 (4), December, pp. 124-25.

Refereed conference papers

• Weller, P. and Yi-Chong, X. (2003) International Civil Servants and multilateral trade negotiations, refereed paper, Jubilee Conference, Australasian Political Studies Association, Canberra, September.
• Weller, P. (2002) Children Overboard and the Public Service: Lessons to be learnt, IIPE/AAPAE Biennial Conference, 4-7 October, Brisbane.
• Weller, P. and Yi-Chong, X. (2002) Negotiating GATS: The GATT/WTO Secretariat and policy outcomes, APSA Conference, 2-4 October, Canberra.
• Weller, P. and Yi-Chong, X. (2002) International Civil Servants and Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Canadian Political Studies Association Conference, Toronto, 30 May.
• Weller, P. (2001) Australia's experience of Good Governance, Public Lecture the Prince Damrong Institute, the Ministry of Interior, Bangkok, 6 December.
• Weller, P. (2001) Cabinet Government; An Elusive Ideal? Public Lecture, University of Exeter, 30 October.
• Weller, P. (2001) Are Prime Ministers too Powerful? Public Lecture, St Francis Xavier University, 20 October.
• Weller, P. (2001) The role of public administration in good governance, Keynote address to National Policy Forum: Multiculturalism in the new Millennium, Centra Hotel, Brisbane, 29-30 March.
• Weller, P. (2000) Ministerial Codes, Cabinet Rules and the Power of Prime Ministers, Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, Canberra, 4-6 October.
• Weller, P. and Rhodes, R. (2000) The Changing Mandarins; Responsive or Politicised? IASIA Annual Conference, Chinese National School of Administration, Beijing, 10-13 July.

Reports

• Weller, P. and Tiernan, A. (2003) Submission to the Senate Committee on Finance and Government Operations, Ministerial Staff: a Need for Accountability and Transparency? May, published on the Senate website.
• Weller, P. (2003) Politics and Governance 2025. Paper for the Business Council of Australia, July.
• Weller, P. (2001) Governing Australia: Problems and Prospects. Paper for Business Council of Australia, July.
• Weller, P. (2001) Policy and Governance. Paper for the Humanities and Social Sciences Summit, National Museum of Australia, 26 and 27 July, Position Papers, pp. 55-64 (13).