Craft of Governing

Professor Glyn Davis is Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and R.A.W. Rhodes is Professor of Government at both the University of Southampton and Griffith University.

• A Foreword from Abroad by Peter HennessyPART I: INTRODUCTION1 Remembering and Witnessing - Glyn Davis and R.A.W. Rhodes2 A Historian Encounters Politics: The Craft of Pat Weller - Glyn Davis and R.A.W. RhodesPART 2: THE EXECUTIVE3 Two Halves of a Whole: Rudd and Gillard and the Politics of Prime Ministerial Vulnerability - Michelle Grattan4 Core Executives, Prime Ministers, Statecraft and Court Politics: Towards Convergence - R.A.W. RhodesPART 3: THE PUBLIC SERVICE5 Mandarins - Peter Shergold6 The Machinery of Government: The Evolution of Research on Ministerial Portfolios - Evert LindquistPART 4: HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY7 'It is not a biography . . .', it is executive practice - James Walter8 Administrative History as Biography - John WannaPART 5: INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS9 Agents of Influence: Weller and Xu on International Organisations from a Public Policy Perspective - Jason Sharman10 Learning a New Trick: International Civil Servants - Xu Yi-chongPART 6: COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT11 Who rules? Democratic Versus Bureaucratic Leadership - John Kane and Haig Patapan12 Westminster Futures: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom in Comparative Perspective - Robert J. Jackson13 Politics as Work: A Credo - Patrick WellerPatrick Weller's BibliographyIndex