Successful public policy : lessons from Australia and New Zealand / edited by Joannah Luetjens, Michael Mintrom and Paul 't Hart.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. On studying policy successes in Australia and New Zealand / Joannah Luetjens, Michael Mintrom and Paul 't Hart -- Part I. Policy successes in Australia : -- 2. Responding to HIV/AIDS: Mobilisation through partnerships in a public health crisis / Lisa Fitzgerald and Allyson Mutch, with Lisa Herron -- 3. The Higher Education Contribution Scheme: Keeping tertiary education affordable and accessible / Timothy Higgins -- 4. The 53-billion-dollar question: Was Australia's 2009-2010 fiscal stimulus a good thing? / Alan Fenna and Paul 't Hart -- 5. 'Marvellous Melbourne': Making the world's most liveable city / Emma Blomkamp and Jenny M. Lewis -- 6. The Child Support Scheme: What innovative collaboration can achieve / Meredith Edwards -- 7. The Australian water markets story: Incremental transformation / James Horne and R. Quentin Grafton -- 8. National competition policy: Effective stewardship of markets / Alan Fenna -- 9. The 'perfect storm' of gun control: From policy inertia to world leader / Philip Alpers and Zareh Ghazarian -- 10. The Goods and Services Tax (GST): The public value of a contested reform / Binh Tran-Nam -- 11. Medicare: The making and consolidation of an Australian institution / Anne-marie Boxall -- 12. Avoiding the Global Financial Crisis in Australia: A policy success? / Stephen Bell and Andrew Hindmoor -- 13. Thinking outside the box: Tobacco plain packaging and the demise of smoking / Becky Freeman -- Part II. Policy successes in New Zealand : -- 14. New Zealand's universal no-fault accident compensation scheme: Embedding community responsibility / Grant Duncan -- 15. New Zealand's economic turnaround: How public policy innovation catalysed economic growth / Michael Mintrom and Madeline Thomas -- 16. Nuclear-free New Zealand: Contingency, contestation and consensus in public policymaking / David Capie -- 17. Treaty of Waitangi settlements: Successful symbolic reparation / Janine Hayward -- 18. The Fiscal Responsibility Act 1994: How a nonbinding policy instrument proved highly powerful / Derek Gill -- 19. Early childhood education policy pathways: A learning story / Sandy Farquhar and Andrew Gibbons -- 20. KiwiSaver: A jewel in the crown of New Zealand's retirement income framework? / Kirsten MacDonald and Ross Guest -- 21. Whānau Ora: An Indigenous policy success story / Verna Smith, Charlotte Moore, Jacqueline Cumming and Amohia Boulton..

"In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly ‘see’—let alone recognise and explain—variations in government performance when media, political and academic discourses are saturated with accounts of their shortcomings and failures, but are next to silent on their achievements. Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand helps to turn that tide. It aims to reset the agenda for teaching, research and dialogue on public policy performance. This is done through a series of close-up, in-depth and carefully chosen case study accounts of the genesis and evolution of stand-out public policy achievements, across a range of sectors within Australia and New Zealand."--Back cover.