Teaching

• POGO 8090 Making and Evaluating Policy
• POGO 8099 Community and Social Policy

PhD Supervision

I am interested in supervising qualitative research related to:

• third sector service delivery agencies, in particular the relationship between third sector agencies and government;
• rights-based approaches to social policy; and
• social exclusion.

Current projects

Work on intermediate labour markets and third sector service delivery agencies continues through an ARC Linkage Project which will test claims about the advantages of a model of service provision that relies primarily on trust, rather than competition and control to achieve desired outcomes.  The project will also provide an independent review of two key elements in the new generation of employment services. 

I am also involved in another ARC Linkage project which aims to develop a framework that can be used to analyse community strengthening and social inclusion policies from a child-centred perspective.

Research interests/publications

Third sector service delivery agencies

• Nevile, Ann 2010, 'Drifting or holding firm? Public funding and the values of third sector organisations', Policy & Politics, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 531-546.
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  As the involvement of third sector organisations in the delivery of publicly funded services has increased, so too have debates over the effect of such collaboration on their distinctive value base. This qualitative study asks whether the normative legitimacy of third sector organisations is being compromised by the requirements placed on them by external funding agencies. The study finds that third sector organisations are able to protect their normative legitimacy through a range of strategies, the most important of which is a mixed resource base; a strategy that also enable third sector organisations to engage in evolutionary innovation.
  
  Please contact the author Ann.Nevile@anu.edu.au if you would like a copy of this article.

• Nevile, Ann 2009 ‘Values and the Legitimacy of Third Sector Service Delivery Organisations: Evidence from Australia’, VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, vol. 20, issue 1, pp. 71-89.
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• Nevile, Ann & Nevile J.W 2006, ‘Realising the Potential of Work for the Dole’, Journal of Economics & Social Policy, vol.11, no.1, pp. 73-88.
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• Nevile, Ann and Nevile, John 2003, Work for the Dole: Obligation or Opportunity?, Centre for Applied Economic Research, UNSW.
• Nevile, Ann 1999 , 'Competing Interests; Competition Policy in the Welfare Sector', The Australia Institute Discussion Paper No. 21 , The Australia Institute, Canberra.

Rights-based approaches to social policy / social exclusion

• Nevile, Ann 2010, ‘Values, rights and concepts of citizenship’, in Ann Nevile (ed), Human Rights and Social Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Values and Citizenship in OECD Countries, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
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• Nevile, Ann 2010, On the margins? The influence of ‘rights talk’ on policy and practice’, in Ann Nevile (ed), Human Rights and Social Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Values and Citizenship in OECD Countries, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
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• Nevile, Ann 2008 ‘Human rights, power and welfare conditionality’, Australian Journal of Human Rights, vol. 14, no. 1 pp. 1-20.
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• Nevile, Ann 2007 ‘Amartya K. Sen and social exclusion’ ,Development in Practice, vol. 17, no. 2, pp 249-255.
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Policy process - related publications

• Nevile, Ann (ed) 2002, Policy Choices in a Globalized World, Nova Science, Huntington, NY.
  This book looks at how policy decisions are made in the increasingly globalized policy environment facing national governments today. Eight case studies explore the factors driving policy outcomes in four different policy sectors in Australia and Japan: that is, the financial sector, telecommunications, local government and aged care. To buy copies of this book log on to http://www.novapublishers.com/ordering.html

• Nevile, Ann, 2000, Policy Choices in a Globalized World, Nova Science Publishers, Inc, New York.
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• Nevile, Ann 2000, 'Politicians, Media Moguls and Pay-TV: Pay-TV policy-making in Australia 1977-1995', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 63-74.N
• Nevile,A. (1997), 'Financial Deregulation in Australia in the 1980s'.
  The Economic and Labour Relations Review, Vol. 8(2), 273-92.
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Contact details

Telephone:	61 2 6125 3897
Fax:	61 2 6257 5570
Email:	ann.nevile@anu.edu.au
Mailing address:	Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

 

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