You Win Some, You Lose Some: Experiments with Joined-Up Government

Evaluating the Top-Bottom and Bottom-Up Community Development Approaches: Mixed Method Approach as Alternative for Rural Un-Educated Communities in Developing Countries

“…Though the joined-up is nice on its own but could not produce nor be compared with the goods of bottom -top as explained in various literature. Combination of the joined-up and the local groups may be able to produce a higher level of results as emphasized in the studies of (O'Flynn et al, 2011;Ross et al, 2011). The negative understanding and effect of the top-down approach by Keast (2011) says "top-down approaches have been found to lack the capacity to reach street-level actions" (Carey et al 2015, P167).…”

Re-Conceptualising Public Health Interventions in Government: A Response to Recent Commentaries

“…4,13 It is important to realise that attempts to 'disrupt the natural order' may not result in collaboration and unification as hoped, but can also generate coercive or even corrosive pressures. 4,14,15 These often emerge from the relationships between formal institutions (the departments, groups, or processes) we put in place, and informal institutions (the actions and patterning of behaviour of individuals embedded in formal institutions). 16 The interactions between the formal institutions that public health advocates for, and the informal institutional practices of actors, can be difficult to predict and can have serious unintended consequences.…”

Accountability in Multi-level Governance: The Example of Australian Federalism

“…Such networks are certainly found in service areas such as social and employment assistance, involving members of Commonwealth and state and territory governments, as well as local governments. Indigenous affairs, in particular, provides frequent examples of frontline administrators cooperating across institutional boundaries to serve local communities (O'Flynn et al 2011; see also Jarvie and Stewart).…”