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- 1988 - 2005 (Creation)
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1.4 m (5 type 1 and 4 type 3 boxes)
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Colin Campbell co-founded and co-chaired the International Political Science Association Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government from 1984 to 1989; and was co-founder of the journal, Governance: an International Journal of Policy and Administration. In 1988, Professor Campbell was a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He conducted interviews with senior public servants in the 1980s for the book he co-wrote with Professor John Halligan, Political Leadership in an Age of Constraint: Bureaucratic Politics under Hawke and Keating (Allen and Unwin, 1992).
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Most of the interviews were conducted by Colin Campbell and John Halligan as research for their book Political Leadership in an Age of Constraint: Bureaucratic Politics under Hawke and Keating, Allen and Unwin, 1992. They interviewed Senior Executive Service officers in Commonwealth government departments, identified as CA = Central Agency, L = Line department and S = Secretary. Most interviews were taped, transcribed and then summarised to extract information so the files hold both the transcripts and information summaries. The information and quotations were not attributed to particular interviewees in the 1992 publication under a confidentiality agreement. Later interviews from 1994 to 2001 were conducted by Campbell to keep abreast of changes and he also undertook the 2005 interviews with Department of Defence officers for a proposed study of the transformation of the military
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Most items have a single number with CA, L or S prefix
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Researchers must abide by conditions of access set at time of interviews; reference copies of cassette tapes will be made on request
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Prepared by Maggie Shapley on 25 June 2009