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Benchmarking in Federal Systems

Roundtable proceedings

The Commission held a joint roundtable with the Forum of Federations on Benchmarking in Federal Systems in Melbourne on 19-20 December 2010.

Participants included government officials, academics, consultants and representatives of non-government organisations.

The Commission is grateful to the Forum of Federations for the invitation to co-host the Roundtable, and to the participants, whose contributions made the Roundtable, and the production of this volume, a valuable exercise.

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Preliminaries (PDF - 322 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Foreword and Contents
Introduction (PDF - 198 Kb)
Felix Knüpling
Chapter 1 Benchmarking in federal systems (PDF - 317 Kb)
Alan Fenna

Part I: International contributions

Chapter 2 From the improvement end of the telescope: benchmarking and accountability in UK local government (PDF - 250 Kb)
Clive Grace
Chapter 3 The implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: toward performance-based federalism in US education policy (PDF - 350 Kb)
Kenneth K Wong
Chapter 4 Benchmarking health care in federal systems: the Canadian experience (PDF - 380 Kb)
Patricia Baranek, Jeremy Veillard and John Wright
Chapter 5 Towards benchmarking in Germany (PDF - 184 Kb)
Gottfried Konzendorf and Rabea Hathaway
Chapter 6 Benchmarking sustainable development in the Swiss confederation (PDF - 338 Kb)
Daniel Wachter
Chapter 7 Benchmarking social Europe a decade on: demystifying the OMC's learning tools (PDF - 540 Kb)
Bart Vanhercke and Peter Lelie

Part II: Australian contributions

Chapter 8 Australia's federal context (PDF - 223 Kb)
Gary Banks, Alan Fenna and Lawrence McDonald
Chapter 9 Benchmarking and Australia's Report on Government Services (PDF - 328 Kb)
Gary Banks and Lawrence McDonald
Chapter 10 Benchmarking, competitive federalism and devolution: how the COAG reform agenda will lead to better services (PDF - 221 Kb)
Ben Rimmer
Chapter 11 Benchmarking and accountability: the role of the COAG Reform Counci (PDF - 330 Kb)
Mary Ann O'Loughlin
Chapter 12 Australian perspectives on benchmarking: the case of school education (PDF - 326 Kb)
Peter Dawkins
Chapter 13 Benchmarking in federal systems: the Queensland experience (PDF - 201 Kb)
Sharon Bailey and Ken Smith

Dinner address

Chapter 14 Commonwealth–State benchmarking and the state of Australian Federalism (PDF - 157 Kb)
Helen Silver

Appendices