By Professor Catherine Althaus

Books

Althaus C; Ball S; Bridgman P; Davis G; Threlfall D, 2022, The Australian Policy Handbook: A Practical Guide to the Policymaking Process, Seventh edition, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003351993

Althaus C; Bridgman P; Davis G, 2020, The Australian Policy Handbook, A practical guide to the policy-making process, Taylor & Francis, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003117940

Althaus C; O’Faircheallaigh C, 2019, Leading from Between: The Challenge and Promise of Indigenous Public Service Leadership in Canada and Australia, https://www.mqup.ca/leading-from-between-products-9780773559134.php

Althaus C, 2013, Calculating political risk, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315870595

Book Chapters

Althaus C; Brownlee P; Cuffe H; Green J, 2026, 'Is There a Distinctly Australian Way of Doing Place-Based Policymaking?', in Place Community and Governance in Australia Past Present and Futures, pp. 29 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798881888961.ch-002

Threlfall D; Althaus C; Bridgman P; Ball S, 2026, 'Policy Cycle', in Encyclopedia of Public Policy, Springer Nature, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90434-0_119-1

Althaus C, 2025, 'The light and shade of Islamic public value', in Islamic Public Value Theory Practice and Administration of Indigenous Cooperative Institutions, pp. 369 - 377, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781035333646.00030

Althaus C; Casey D; de Toca L, 2024, 'Responding to COVID-19 in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: The importance of strengths-based public administration, cultural safety and working in genuine partnership', in Research Handbook on Public Management and COVID-19, Edward Elgar, pp. 162 - 175, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781802205954.00022

Althaus C, 2023, 'Public sector reform and merit: Principles, practices, and pushback', in Handbook of Public Administration Reform, Edward Elgar, pp. 27 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800376748.00006

Althaus C; Workman SK, 2023, 'A Comparative History of Social Provision for Indigenous Australians and Māori', in The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Public Management for Social Policy, OUP, pp. 351 - 365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190916329.013.2

Althaus C; Threlfall D, 2021, 'The policy cycle and policy theory: From theory-building to policy making', in Handbook of Public Administration: Fourth Edition, pp. 283 - 292

Althaus C; Threlfall D, 2021, 'The Policy Cycle and Policy Theory', in Handbook of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis, pp. 283 - 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429270680-29

Threlfall D; Althaus C, 2021, 'A quixotic quest? Making theory speak to practice', in Learning Policy, Doing Policy: Interactions Between Public Policy Theory, Practice and Teaching, ANU Press, pp. 29 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/lpdp.2021.02

Althaus C, 2021, 'Political science and the arts as allies and strange bedfellows: A chapter in five parts', in What Political Science can Learn from the Humanities Blurring Genres, pp. 287 - 313, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51697-0_11

Althaus C, 2021, 'Cultural Fluency Training for the Twenty-First-Century Public Servant', in The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1685 - 1709, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29980-4_37

Althaus C, 2020, 'Cultural Fluency Training for the Twenty-First-Century Public Servant', in The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03008-7_37-1

Althaus C; O’Faircheallaigh C, 2019, 'Acronyms and Abbreviations', in Leading from Between, De Gruyter, pp. xiii - xiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780773559639-002

Althaus C; O’Faircheallaigh C, 2019, 'Barriers to Indigenous Participationand Leadership Practice', in Leading from Between, De Gruyter, pp. 134 - 173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780773559639-008

Althaus C; O’Faircheallaigh C, 2019, 'History and Context', in Leading from Between, De Gruyter, pp. 23 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780773559639-004

Althaus C; O’Faircheallaigh C, 2019, 'Indigenous Employment in the Queensland and British Columbia Public Services, 1991–2015', in Leading from Between, De Gruyter, pp. 50 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780773559639-005

Althaus C; O’Faircheallaigh C, 2019, 'Indigenous Participation and Leadership', in Leading from Between, De Gruyter, pp. 174 - 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780773559639-009

Althaus C; O’Faircheallaigh C, 2019, 'Indigenous Peoples in Public Services', in Leading from Between, De Gruyter, pp. 3 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780773559639-003

Althaus C; O’Faircheallaigh C, 2019, 'Indigenous Understandings of Leadership', in Leading from Between, De Gruyter, pp. 98 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780773559639-007

Althaus C; O’Faircheallaigh C, 2019, 'Research on Public Sector and Indigenous Leadership', in Leading from Between, De Gruyter, pp. 74 - 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780773559639-006

Althaus C; O’Faircheallaigh C, 2019, 'Tables and Figures', in Leading from Between, De Gruyter, pp. xi - xi, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780773559639-001

Althaus C, 2017, 'Establishing the Moral Object of Heterologous and Homologous Embryo Transfer', in Eberl JT (ed.), CONTEMPORARY CONTROVERSIES IN CATHOLIC BIOETHICS, SPRINGER, pp. 169 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55766-3_13

Althaus C; Siemens L; Stange C, 2013, 'Balancing Students’ Privacy Concerns while Increasing Student Engagement in E-Learning Environments', in Increasing Student Engagement and Retention in e-Learning Environments: Web 2.0 and Blended Learning Technologies, Emerald, pp. 339 - 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S2044-9968(2013)000006G014

Althaus C, 2011, 'Fiscal Responsibility Legislation and the Case of the Queensland Charter of Social and Fiscal Responsibility', in Graham A (ed.), Innovation in Public Expenditure Management – Case Studies from the Commonwealth, http://www.andrewbgraham.ca/uploads/1/2/5/1/12517834/innovation_in_public_financial_management_ebsecure.pdf

Althaus C; Wanna J, 2008, 'The Institutionalisation of Leadership in the Australian Public Service', in Hart P; Uhr J (ed.), PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES, AUSTRALIAN NATL UNIV, pp. 117 - 131, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000291551100010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Althaus C, 2007, 'Human Embryo Transfer and the Theology of the Body', in Brakman SV; Weaver DF (ed.), The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition, Springer Nature, pp. 43 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6211-7_3

Althaus C, 2007, 'The right to assistance from society, if necessary from the State, in distress of family or persons', in Franklin J (ed.), Life to the Full: Rights and Social Justice in Australia, https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/Life-to-the-Full-Rights-and-Social-Justice-in-Australia_p_238.html

Althaus C, 1997, 'The Application of Agency Theory to Public Management', in Davis G; Sullivan B; Yeatman A (ed.), The New Contractualism?, MacMillan

Althaus C, 1994, 'Legitimation and Agenda-Setting: Development and the Environment in Australia and Canada’s North', in Weller P (ed.), Royal commissions and the making of public policy, https://www.amazon.com/Royal-Commiss-Public-Policy-Weller/dp/0732927870

Journal articles

Rahman S; Beamish A; Althaus C, 2026, 'From fragmentation to integration: reframing adaptive leadership through an integrative review', Management Review Quarterly, pp. 1 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11301-026-00593-1

Threlfall D; Althaus C, 2025, 'Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector', Australian Journal of Public Administration, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.70022

Tani Bertuol M; Althaus C; Mazenda A, 2025, 'Transcending multidimensional poverty classes in urban developing municipalities', Poverty & Public Policy, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pop4.70011

Tani Bertuol M; Mazenda A; Althaus C, 2025, 'Urban food insecurity and its determinants among migrant households', International Migration, 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imig.13370

Taher TB; Althaus CE; Tranter PJ; Evans MC, 2023, 'Impacts of shrimp aquaculture on the local communities and conservation of the world's largest protected mangrove forest', Environmental Science and Policy, 147, pp. 351 - 360, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.07.002

Althaus C; O'Faircheallaigh C, 2022, 'Bureaucratic Representation, Accountability, and Democracy: A Qualitative Study of Indigenous Bureaucrats in Australia and Canada', Public Administration Review, 82, pp. 646 - 659, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/puar.13492

Althaus C, 2022, 'Complementary Bureaucracy: Reimagining Weberian Impersonalism with Indigenous Relationality', Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 5, pp. 135 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov/gvac002

Althaus C; Dickinson H; Katsonis M; O'Flynn J, 2021, 'Back to the future: Reflections and predictions', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 80, pp. 647 - 651, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12529

Althaus C; Carson L; Smith K, 2021, 'Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity', Policy Sciences, 54, pp. 867 - 889, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11077-021-09441-3

Carson L; Althaus C; Sullivan H; van Wanrooy B, 2021, 'Implementation for impact—Measurement, partnership approaches, and storytelling', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 80, pp. 539 - 543, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12514

Althaus C; Carson L; Sullivan H; van Wanrooy B, 2021, 'Research and education in public sector practice: a systems approach to understanding policy impact', Policy Design and Practice, 4, pp. 309 - 322, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25741292.2021.1977478

Althaus C, 2020, 'Different paradigms of evidence and knowledge: Recognising, honouring, and celebrating Indigenous ways of knowing and being', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 79, pp. 187 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12400

ALTHAUS C; O’FAIRCHEALLAIGH C, 2019, 'Leading from Between', , http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvscxt27

Althaus C; Patterson M, 2017, 'A Line in the Sand 50 Years On: Commonwealth Involvement in Indigenous Affairs', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 76, pp. 395 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12292

Hallgrimsdottir H; Shumka L; Althaus C; Benoit C, 2017, 'Fear, Risk, and the Responsible Choice: Risk Narratives and Lowering the Rate of Caesarean Sections in High-income Countries', AIMS Public Health, 4, pp. 615 - 632, http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2017.6.615

Althaus C, 2017, 'Reluctant Representatives: Blackfella Bureaucrats Speak in Australia's North Elizabeth Ganter (Canberra: ANU Press; Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research: Research Monograph No 37, 2016, ISBN9781760460327 (paperbook), 210 pp.)', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 76, pp. 529 - 530, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12291

Althaus C, 2016, 'The Administrative Sherpa and the Journey of Public Service Leadership', Administration and Society, 48, pp. 395 - 420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095399713498747

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