Table of Contents

A Foreword from Abroad by Peter Hennessy

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1 Remembering and Witnessing - Glyn Davis and R.A.W. Rhodes

2 A Historian Encounters Politics: The Craft of Pat Weller - Glyn Davis and R.A.W. Rhodes

PART 2: THE EXECUTIVE

3 Two Halves of a Whole: Rudd and Gillard and the Politics of Prime Ministerial Vulnerability - Michelle Grattan

4 Core Executives, Prime Ministers, Statecraft and Court Politics: Towards Convergence - R.A.W. Rhodes

PART 3: THE PUBLIC SERVICE

5 Mandarins - Peter Shergold

6 The Machinery of Government: The Evolution of Research on Ministerial Portfolios - Evert Lindquist

PART 4: HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

7 'It is not a biography . . .', it is executive practice - James Walter

8 Administrative History as Biography - John Wanna

PART 5: INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

9 Agents of Influence: Weller and Xu on International Organisations from a Public Policy Perspective - Jason Sharman

10 Learning a New Trick: International Civil Servants - Xu Yi-chong

PART 6: COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT

11 Who rules? Democratic Versus Bureaucratic Leadership - John Kane and Haig Patapan

12 Westminster Futures: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom in Comparative Perspective - Robert J. Jackson

13 Politics as Work: A Credo - Patrick Weller

Patrick Weller's Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Professor Glyn Davis is Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and R.A.W. Rhodes is Professor of Government at both the University of Southampton and Griffith University.