New Zealand underwent a period of comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms from
1984 to 1993. In this paper, we use data from the 1986, 1991, 1996 and 2001 New Zealand …

Public sector reform is as old as the innovations of Hammurabi and the Mongols, indeed as
old as the state and its administrative machinery. These reform efforts were typically driven …

The Ministry of Women's Affairs in Aotearoa/New Zealand was established as a stand-alone
agency in 1986. It has remained institutionally intact for more than 20 years, unlike many …

The current policy trend to have the reduction of health inequalities as a desired outcome
indicates a serious attempt to deal with the complexity of social interactions. In New Zealand …

In this article, I analyze the social policy reactions to economic crises in A ustralia and N ew
Z ealand. After the financial crisis of 2008, Australia built its crisis management strategy …

There is an increasing need for joined-up government and joint working between agencies
and across sectors in order to address “wicked” social problems and improve policy …

New Zealand (NZ) has a central government-driven, tax-funded health system with the state
as dominant payer. The NZ experience precedes and endorses the US concept of patient …

This article sketches some historical maps of the child institutions in Aotearoa—New
Zealand. These reveal a dynamic process of accommodation and resistance by early …

During the 1990's, despite growing pressures for change, the prominent tendency of welfare
state scholars was to explain the persistence of welfare state institutions. Among the …

This chapter aims to explain significant policy change in the context of highly change-
resistant welfare states. Dominant institutional theories of welfare state politics predict that …