Understanding integrity in public administration: Guest Editors' Introduction

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Notes

1. There were also other triggers for this special issue, specifically papers generated from a workshop convened by the ANZSOG Institute for Governance involving an invited group of heads of integrity agencies; and the Institute's ongoing involvement with the COBRA project, an 11-country examination of autonomy and control in agencies (see Aulich et al 2010; Wettenhall and Aulich 2009).

2. Australia is a federal country with three levels of government: a national (Commonwealth) government, six state and two territory governments at the intermediate level, and more than 500 local governments.