Public service productivity and popping the Canberra bubble

<p><strong>On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Professor Patrick Dunleavy to talk about ‘robodebt’, department mergers, and why this very ‘Canberra’ issue has a big impact throughout the country.</strong></p><br><p>Will the government’s proposed departmental merger make the Australian Public Service more efficient? And as big data and artificial intelligence play a bigger role in the delivery of public services, are issues like the ‘robodebt’ scandal a harbinger of things to come? On this episode of <em>Policy Forum Pod</em>, Professor Sharon Bessell speaks with political scientist and public policy guru Professor Patrick Dunleavy about increasing public service productivity for the benefit of all.</p><br><p><strong>Patrick Dunleavy</strong> is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy within the Government Department of the London School of Economics. He is also Co-Director of Democratic Audit and Chair of the LSE Public Policy Group and Centenary Research Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra.</p><br><p><strong>Sharon Bessell</strong>&nbsp;is a Professor at Crawford School of Public Policy, where she is co-leader of the ANU Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) team. The IDM is&nbsp;a new, gender-sensitive and multidimensional measure of poverty.</p><br><p><em>Policy Forum Pod is available on&nbsp;</em><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/policy-forum-pod/id1100512143?mt=2&amp;ls=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Apple Podcasts</em></a><em>,&nbsp;</em><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6HGLGw9GFdl4eFzPh5fSpz?si=Nhzv9CzCSWCkgMmZIZQ1ww" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Spotify</em></a><em>,&nbsp;</em><a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/policy-forum-pod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Stitcher</em></a><em>,&nbsp;</em><a href="http://subscribeonandroid.com/rss.simplecast.com/podcasts/4752/rss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Subscribe on Android&nbsp;</em></a><em>or wherever you get y