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

• Appendix A Roundtable program (PDF - 182 Kb)
• Appendix B Roundtable participants (PDF - 96 Kb)