A/Prof Jenny Stewart

Jenny StewartBA, BA (Hons), PhD (ANU)
Associate Professor in Public Policy
Faculty of Business & Government
University of Canberra
Telephone: +61 2 6201 2187
Email: Jenny.Stewart@canberra.edu.au
website: www.jennystewart.net.au

Research interests:

  • Industry and environmental governance
  • Policy theory and public management

Recent publications:

Value Conflict and Policy Change (in press)

‘Educational policy: politics, markets and the decline of “publicness”, Policy and Politics June 2005, vol 33 no 3, pp475-487

'The Decline of the Tea Lady - Management for dissidents', The Wakefield Press, 2004.


'The meaning of strategy in the public sector', Australian Journal of Public Administration, December 2004, vol 63, no 4, 16-21

& Grant Jones, Renegotiating the environment, Sydney, Federation Press, 2003.

& Paul Kringas, Change management - Strategy and Values in Six Agencies from the Australian Public Service, Public Administration Review , Volume 63, Number 6, November/December 2003: 675-688

'Horizontal coordination: the Australian experience', in Meredith Edwards and John Langford (eds) New players, partners and processes: a public sector without boundaries, National Institute for Governance and Centre for Public Sector Studies, University of Victoria, BC, 2002

'Confessions of a bush treasurer', Quadrant, May 2002

'Networks and the new public policy', Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, December 2001

& Russell Ayres 'Systems theory and public policy: an exploration', Policy Sciences, March 2001

& with Russell Ayres 'The policy process' in Halligan, Aulich, Jones and Nutley (eds) Australian Handbook of Public Sector Management, Allen and Unwin, 2001

'Public sector management' in Summers, Woodward and Parkin (eds), Government, Politics, Power and Policy in Australia, 7th edition, Longman, 2001

& Russell Ayres 'The policy process' in Halligan, Aulich, Jones and Nutley (eds) Australian Handbook of Public Sector Management, Allen and Unwin, 2001

'The Howard Government and Federalism: the end of an era?', Gwynneth Singleton (ed) The Howard Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration, 1996-98, UNSW Press, 2000

'Take me to your leader', Quadrant, January-February 2000

'The Howard Government and Federalism: The End of an Era?' in The Howard Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 1996-1998, ed. Gwyn Singleton, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 151-161.

'Open Access - Trade Policy Under Labor' in Out of the Rut: Making Labor a Genuine Alternative, ed. Michael Carman and Ian Rogers, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, pp. 237-260.

'Purchaser-Provider - Are the Purchasers Ready for It?', Australian Journal of Public Administration, Erskinville NSW, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 105-111.

'It's Academic', Quadrant, Fitzroy, Victoria, vol. XLIII, no. 6, pp. 28-32.

& Jones, Grant. 'Explaining Institutional Effectiveness in Australian Environmental Management: An Application of the Haas, Keohane and Levy Model', Australian Journal of Political Science, Basingstoke, UK ,vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 169-188.

& Jones, Grant. 'Fashioning Consensus in Australian Environmental Management', Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Vol. III, Department of Government, University of Sydney/APSA, Sydney, pp. 773-780.

'Remembrance of old junk past: Some people treasure, some discard', The Australian, 3 February 1999.

'Public schools on the outer', The Canberra Times, 16 November 1999

'Level Playing Field', in Shafritz, Jay M. (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration, Westview Press, vol. 3 , pp. 1274-1275.

'Administrative Law in the Age of the Contract', Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, Canberra, no. 87, February, pp. 97-98.