Addresses and Public Lectures
‘Scenes from the departmental court’, The Frank Stacey Memorial Lecture delivered at the PAC Annual Conference, ‘New Directions in the Theory and Practice of Public Administration’, Alcuin College, University of York, 2nd September 2008.
‘The unholy trinity and network governance’, a lecture in the Blake Dawson and Waldron/Australian National University Public Lecture series, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 23 August 2005.
‘The Court Politics of the Blair Presidency’, Senate Occasional Lecture, The Theatre, Parliament House, 27 June 2005
‘Is Westminster dead in Westminster (and why should we care)?’ Inaugural lecture in the ANZSOG-ANU Public Lecture series, The Shine Dome, Academy of Science, Canberra, 23 February 2005. The lecture was taped by ABC Radio National. It was reported in ‘Exposing the Myth of Westminster Rule’, Canberra Sunday Times, 27 February 2005: 31. (Attributed paraphrase by Paul Malone.); and a summary was published as ‘End of an Era’, The Public Sector Informant, Canberra Times, March 2005: 10-11. The full text is available at: http://anzsog-research.anu.edu.au/events.html and at ‘Online Publications’ on this site.
Text of Canberra Times summary
3 June 2002, ‘Decentring British Bureaucracy’, opening address to the International Political Science Association’s workshop on ‘Knowledge, Networks and Joined-Up’ Government, University of Melbourne. The text is available in M. Considine (Ed.) Knowledge, Networks and Joined-Up Government. (University of Melbourne: The Centre for Public Policy, 2002). Also published on www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au.
24 September 2001, ‘Putting the People back into Networks’, keynote address to the Australasian Political Science Association 43rd Annual Conference, Parliament House, Brisbane. Also delivered on 5 September 2001, as the opening keynote address to the European Group of Public Administration Annual Conference, University of Vassa, Finland.
16 August 2001, ‘Localism and Exceptionalism: comparing public sector reforms in European and Westminster systems’. Keynote address to the conference ‘Kvalitet 2001’, Lillehammer, 15-16 August 2001. Arbeids - og administrasjonsdepartementet, Kommunal og regionaldepartementet, Kommunenes Sentralforbund, Norges forskningsråd, Statskonsult, Høgskolen i Lillehammer og Lillehammer Kunnskapspark AS.
30 November 1998, Keynote address, ‘If governance is everything, maybe it’s nothing’, to the Norwegian Research Council Conference on ‘Offentlig sektor i endring’, Oslo.
24 November 1998, Professorial inaugural lecture, ‘Understanding Governance; comparing public sector reform in Britain and Denmark’, University of Copenhagen.
28 May 1998 Keynote address, ‘Understanding Governance’ University of Lund.
19 February 1998, Keynote address to the Conference on ‘Public Policy and Private Management’, Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne.
25 June 1997, Public lecture, ‘Good Governance’ to the ESRC Social Science Conference, QEII Centre. Text available as pamphlet from ESRC.
30 January 1997, CIPFA/Times Public Lecture, ‘From Marketisation to Diplomacy’, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, London. Printed as: ‘Diplomacy in Governance’, Public Finance Foundation Review No. 13 Jan/Feb 1997: 8-10.
30 October 1996, Keynote address, ‘Diplomacy in Governance’ to the State Conference of the IPAA, Queensland Division. Printed in Proceedings of the IPAA Conference ‘Signposting the Future’ (Brisbane: IPAA and KPMG, 1996).
18 April 1996, Professorial inaugural lecture, ‘Governance without Government: order and change in British politics’, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
1 December 1995, Closing address on ‘Looking Beyond Managerialism’ to the Royal Institute of Public Administration of Australia’s National Conference. Sheraton Hotel, Brisbane, 29 November-1 December. Published as: ‘Looking Beyond Managerialism’ Australian Journal of Public Administration 55/2, 1996: 1-4.
24 January 1995, Public Lecture at the Royal Society of Arts on ‘Governance’. Part of the RSA/ESRC ‘State of Britain’ lecture series. Printed as: The New Governance: governing without government. (London: RSA and ESRC)
20 February 1991, Professorial inaugural lecture, ‘A Plague of Practice’, University of York.
