Mapping the policy advisory capacity of the Australian federal government: assessing transformations in the policy advising role of the Australian Public Service

政府的效力在很大程度上取决于能否获得高质量的信息、分析和咨询意见。因此，该项目涉及一个对国家至关重要的问题，即澳大利亚公共服务部门通过其政策咨询职能支持决策的能力。该项目具有重要的理论意义和实践意义。它的调查结果将有助于更好地理解公共服务的政策咨询作用及其在日益多元化的治理背景下与决策者的关系。该项目将是澳大利亚对一个更大的比较项目的贡献，该项目审查四个威斯敏斯特式政府的政策咨询能力。

Governmental effectiveness depends to a significant extent on the availability of high quality information, analysis and advice. This project therefore addresses a matter of crucial national importance, namely the ability of the Australian Public Service to support decision-making through its policy advising functions. The project is significant for both its theoretical and practical contributions. Its findings will inform better understandings of the policy advising role of the public service and its relationship to decision-makers in an increasingly pluralised governance context. The project will be the Australian contribution to a larger comparative project examining policy advisory capacities in four Westminster-style governments.