IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cposxx/v36y2015i1p4-17.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Governance in a hybrid system: designing and institutionalising the Australian Capital Territory

Author

Listed:
  • John Halligan

Abstract

The ACT embraces, to an unusual extent, different even contradictory principles. As a city-state, its institutions combine the roles of local and state government. It adheres to the Westminster system with its division of powers between the legislature and the branches, yet the division is somewhat fluid, and the structure is in some respects municipalised. The ACT also operates as the capital city for the Australian nation, which entails shared responsibilities with the Commonwealth for some purposes; retention of the status of a territory rather than a state within the federation and recognition of municipal functions but not local governance. This unlikely fusion of elements has been argued to produce a hybrid system of governance, which makes for tensions between principles of governance and a mix of opportunities and challenges including questions of capacity that derive from both the scale and the organisation of government.

Suggested Citation

  • John Halligan, 2015. "Governance in a hybrid system: designing and institutionalising the Australian Capital Territory," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(1), pages 4-17, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:36:y:2015:i:1:p:4-17
    DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2014.981054
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/01442872.2014.981054
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/01442872.2014.981054?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:36:y:2015:i:1:p:4-17. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cpos .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.