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33
Citations
8753
World Ranking
883
National Ranking
35

Overview

Mark Considine is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences and health professions. Their work spans several subfields including general health professions, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, public administration, and marketing.

The primary research topics covered by Considine focus on employment and welfare studies, social policy and reform studies, the digital economy and work transformation, labor movements and unions, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, public policy and administration research, and the sharing economy and platforms.

Considine has published in a variety of academic venues, with frequent appearances in the Australian Journal of Public Administration, the Australian Journal of Social Issues, the Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy and Administration, and Public Administration.

  • Australian Journal of Public Administration
  • Australian Journal of Social Issues
  • Journal of Social Policy
  • Social Policy and Administration
  • Public Administration

Their collaborations include frequent co-authorship with Michael McGann, Phuc Nguyen, Siobhán O'Sullivan, Sarah Ball, and Jenny M. Lewis.

  • Michael McGann
  • Phuc Nguyen
  • Siobhán O'Sullivan
  • Sarah Ball
  • Jenny M. Lewis

Some representative recent papers by Considine are:

  • Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work (2022), Journal of Social Policy
  • Contracting personalization by results: Comparing marketization reforms in the UK and Australia (2020), Public Administration

In addition to journal articles, Considine has published books with Sydney University Press eBooks and MUP eBooks. Notable titles include Buying and Selling the Poor (2021) and The Careless State (2022).

  • Buying and Selling the Poor (2021, Sydney University Press eBooks)
  • The Careless State (2022, MUP eBooks)

Best Publications

  • The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia

    Simon Marginson;Mark Considine

  • Enterprising States: The Public Management of Welfare-to-Work

    Mark Considine

  • Bureaucracy, Network, or Enterprise? Comparing Models of Governance in Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand

    Mark Considine;Jenny M. Lewis

  • Public Policy: A Critical Approach

    Mark Considine

  • The End of the Line? Accountable Governance in the Age of Networks, Partnerships, and Joined-Up Services

    Mark Considine

  • THE CORPORATE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK AS ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE: A CRITIQUE

    Mark Considine

  • Making Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies

    Mark Considine

  • Governance at ground level: The frontline bureaucrat in the age of markets and networks

    Mark Considine;Jenny M. Lewis

  • Managerialism : the great debate

    Mark Considine;Martin Painter

  • Arguing About the Welfare State: The Australian Experience

    Peter Beilharz;Mark Considine;Rob Watts

  • Governance and competition: The role of non-profit organisations in the delivery of public services

    Mark Considine

  • Quasi-Markets and Service Delivery Flexibility Following a Decade of Employment Assistance Reform in Australia

    Mark Considine;Jenny M. Lewis;Siobhan O'sullivan

  • MANAGERIALISM STRIKES OUT

    Mark Considine

  • Thinking Outside the Box? Applying Design Theory to Public Policy

    Mark Considine

  • Australian politics in the global era

    Ann Capling;Michael Crozier;Mark Considine

  • Innovation and Innovators Inside Government: From Institutions to Networks

    Mark Considine;Jenny M. Lewis

  • Networks, innovation and public policy

    Mark Considine;Jenny M. Lewis;Damon Alexander

  • The Contract State

    J Alford;D O'Neill;L McGuire;M Considine

  • The Comparative Performance of Australia as a Knowledge Nation : Report to the Chifley Research Centre

    Mark Considine;Simon Marginson;Peter Sheehan;Margarita Kumnick

  • Civic Engagement and Associationalism: The Impact of Group Membership Scope versus Intensity of Participation

    Damon Timothy Alexander;Jo Barraket;Jenny M. Lewis;Mark Considine

Frequent Co-Authors

Jenny M. Lewis
Jenny M. Lewis University of Melbourne
Simon Marginson
Simon Marginson University of Oxford
Brian Head
Brian Head University of Queensland
John Alford
John Alford University of Melbourne
Martin Painter
Martin Painter City University of Hong Kong

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