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Biography
Amanda is an expert on public administration, and in particular 'arms-length' bodies. Her work has focused upon both the formal and informal dimensions of public agencies or other public administration, including as these pertain to the institutionalization of public sector bodies, their autonomy or accountability. She has also studied the spread of public management reform ideas and the way these have been adopted and translated to different national political contexts and institutions. She is committed to both the comparative research of public management reform, as well as examining the transnational context wherein reform ideas are diffused, exchanged or enforced. Theories of argumentation, of institutions and professionals have been prominent in her work. Empirical areas of research have included agency reform, performance measurement, accrual accounting and more recently management reforms in mental healthcare.
Research interests
Agencies and semi-autonomous bodies, in particular their formal and informal institutional dimensions.
Institutions, multi-level governance and coordination
Political/policy argumentation and rhetoric
Health and mental health care reform and policy
Researcher's projects
- Calibrating Public Sector Accountability
- Temporality and Australian Public Administration
- Multi-level governance and agencies
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Network (past 5 years)
Projects
- 2 Finished
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Re-connecting the Administrative State with Political Studies
Smullen, A. & O'Flynn, J.
Australian Political Studies Association
1/07/21 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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Calibrating Public Sector Accountability: An international survey
Schillemans, T., Smullen, A., Fawcett, P., Overman, S. & Weisbrot, E.
14/09/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
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Understanding Felt Accountability: The institutional antecedents of the felt accountability of agency-CEO's to central government
Schillemans, T., Overman, S., Fawcett, P., Flinders, M., Fredriksson, M., Laegreid, P., Maggetti, M., Papadopoulos, Y., Rubecksen, K., Rykkja, L. H., Salomonsen, H. H., Smullen, A. & Wood, M., 2021, In: Governance: an International journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions. 34, p. 893-916Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Not Centralisation but Decentralised Integration through Australia's National Mental Health Policy
Smullen, A., 2016, In: Australian Journal of Public Administration. 75, 3, p. 280-290ppResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Comparing the Health Care Systems of High-Performing Asian Countries
Smullen, A. & Phua, K. H., 2015, In: Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies. 2, 2, p. 347-355Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Conceptualising Australia's tradition of pragmatic federalism
Smullen, A., 2014, In: Australian Journal of Political Science. 49, 4, p. 677-693Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Pragmatic federalism and Australia's new national health agencies
Smullen, A., 2014, p. 41.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper