Teaching

• Theories of Governance
• Comparative Public Sector Management
• Policy Processes

Current projects

Richard's most recent book, Holding Power to Account. Accountability in Modern Democracies (Palgrave Macmillan 2003), built on a series of articles on the subject of accountability published over the previous decade. His 2000 article, ‘”Accountability”: an ever-expanding concept?’, was selected as one of the twelve most influential articles in the last 25 years of the leading British journal, Public Administration. Since then he has continued to publish on the topic of accountability, contributing entries to a number of international handbooks. He has also written on the relation between ministers and professional public servants, particularly on the issue of ‘politicisation’. His earlier book on New Zealand politics, Politics in New Zealand (Auckland University Press, 1994, second edition 1997) was revised for a third edition published in 2004 and is still in print. He contributes a regular column on public service issues to the Canberra Times monthly, The Public Sector Informant.

He retired in 2008 and is now Professor Emeritus in the Crawford School.

Recent publications

• Mulgan,R. (1998), 'Citizenship and legitimacy in post-colonial Australia'.
  Citizenship and Indigenous Australians, Peterson, N.; Sanders, W. (ed), Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 179-95.
  Online publication not available.
• Mulgan,R. (2000), '‘Accountability’: An Ever-Expanding Concept?'.
  Public Administration, Vol. 78, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, 555-573.
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• Mulgan,R. (2000), 'Was Aristotle an “Aristotelian Social Democrat”?'.
  Ethics, Vol. 111, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA, 79-101.
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• Mulgan,R. (2002), 'Public accountability of provider agencies: the case of the Australian 'Centrelink''.
  International Journal of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 68(1), 45-59.
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• Mulgan,R. (2003), 'Holding Power to Account: Accountability in Modern Democracies'.  Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, UK,
  Online publication not available.
• Mulgan,R. (2003), ‘Centrelink: a new approach to service delivery’ in C. Aspalter (ed), Neoliberalism and the Australian Welfare State  (Hong Kong: Case Verde Publishing), 169-80 Online publication not available.
• Mulgan,R. (2005), ‘Plato, Aristotle and the good governance agenda’ in T. Battin (ed), A Passion for Politics. Essays in honour of Graham Maddox (Sydney; Pearson Longman), 145-5
• Mulgan,R. (2005), ‘One cheer for hierarchy: accountability in disjointed governance’, Political  Science 55(2), 6-18
• Mulgan,R. (2005), ‘Outsourcing and public service values: the Australian experience’, International Review of Administrative Sciences 71 (1), 55-70.
• Mulgan,R. (2006), ‘Government accountability for outsourced services’, Australian Journal of Public Administration 65 (2), 48-58
• Mulgan,R. (2007), ‘Truth in government and the politicization of public service advice’, Public Administration 85 (3), 569-86
• Mulgan,R. (2008), ‘Public sector reform in New Zealand – issues of public accountability’, Public Administration Quarterly 32(1), 1-32
• Mulgan,R. (2008), ‘How much responsiveness is too much or too little?’, Australian Journal of Public Administration 67 (3), 345-56
• Mulgan,R. (2008), ‘The accountability priorities of Australian parliamentarians’, Australian Journal of Public Administration 67 (4) (2008), 457-469

 

Selected publications

Books

• Holding Power to Account. Accountability in Modern Democracies, Basingston, Palgrave Macmillan, third edition 2003, updated P. Aimer, 2004
• Politics in New Zealand, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1994, second revised edition 1997
• Maori, Pakeha and Democracy, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1989
• Democracy and Power in New Zealand, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1984, second edition 1989
• Aristotle's Political Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977

Articles and book chapters (since 1997)

• 'AWB and oil for food: some issues of accountability' in J. Farrall and K. Rubinstein (eds), Sanctions, Accountability and Governance in a Globalised World (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009), 334-51.
• Centrelink: a new approach to service delivery' in C. Aspalter (ed), Neoliberalism and the Australian Welfare
  State (Hong Kong: Case Verde Publishing, 2004), 169-80
• 'One cheer for hierarchy: accountability in disjointed governance', Political Science 55(2), (2003)6-18
• 'Public accountability of provider agencies: the case of the Australian 'Centrelink'', International Journal of Administrative Sciences 68 (1) (2002), 45-59
• 'On ministerial resignations (and the lack thereof)', Australian Journal of Public Administration 61(2) (2002), 121-7
• 'Auditors-General: Cuckoos in the managerialist nest?', Australian Journal of Public Administration 60 (2), 24-34 (2001)
• 'The accountability of community sector agencies: a comparative framework', Third Sector 7 (1), 89-105 (2001)
• 'Auditors-General: Cuckoos in the managerialist nest?', Australian Journal of Public Administration 60 (2), 24-34 (2001)
• 'The accountability of community sector agencies: a comparative framework', Third Sector 7 (1), 89-105 (2001)
• (with J. Uhr), 'Accountability and governance' in G. Davis and P. Weller (eds), Are You Being Served? (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2001), 152-74
• 'Comparing accountability in the public and private sectors', Australian Journal of Public Administration 59(1) (2000), 87-97
• 'The "Mandate": a response to Goot', Australian Journal of Political Science 35 (2000), 317-22
• '"Accountability"', an ever-expanding concept?', Public Administration 78 (2000), 555-74
• 'Was Aristotle an Aristotelian social democrat', Ethics 111 (2000), 79-101
• 'Comparing accountability in the public and private sectors', Australian Journal of Public Administration 59(1) (2000), 87-97
• 'Constitutions and the purpose of the state' in O. Hoeffe (ed), Aristoteles' Politik (Tubingen: Akademie Verlag 2000), 93-106
• 'The electoral system: have we got it right' in C. James (ed), Building the Constitution (Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies 2000), 358-63
• Aristotle, ethical diversity and political argument', Journal of Political Philosophy 7 (1999), 191-207
• 'The role of friendship in Aristotle's political theory', Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 2 (4) (1999), 15-32
• 'Defeating defeatism' in J. Uhr (ed), The Case for Yes (Federation Press, Sydney, 1999), 174-86
• (with B. Galligan), 'Assymetric political association: the Australasian experiment' in R. Agranoff (ed), Accommodating Diversity: Asymmetry in Federal States (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 1999), 57-72
• 'The politicisation of senior appointments in the Australian Public Service', Australian Journal of Public Administration 57 (3) (1998), 3-14
• 'Citizenship and legitimacy in post-colonial Australia', in N. Peterson and W. Sanders (eds),Citizenship and Indigenous Australians (Cambridge UP, Melbourne, 1998), 179-95
• 'Processes of Accountability', Australian Journal of Public Administration 56 (1) (1997), 25-36
• 'Accountability and Contracting Out', Australian Journal of Public Administration 56 (4) (1997), 106-17
• 'Parliament' in R. Miller (ed), New Zealand Politics in Transition (Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1997), 62-71
• 'State and democracy in New Zealand', in C. Rudd and B. Roper (eds), Political Economy in New Zealand (Oxford UP, Auckland, 1997), 256-72

Non-refereed articles (since 1997)

• 'Policy versus administration: the Auditor-General's clash with Finance and the Minister', Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration 101, 38-40m (2001)
• 'Public servants and the public interest', Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration 97 (2000), 1-4
• 'Perspectives on "the public interest"', Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration 95 (2000), 5-12
• 'Identifying the "core" public service', Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration 87 (1998), 1-7
• 'Negative and simplistic or positive and nuanced? [the Reith white paper]', Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration 83 (1997), 25-28

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