Mark Considine (born 1953) is an Australian political scientist, who specialises in public sector governance, and the reform of social services.
Considine was educated at Monivae College in Hamilton, Victoria and at the University of Melbourne, obtaining a BA with a major in political science.
The other body of work for which he is well known internationally is his twenty-year longitudinal study of reforms to services for the unemployed in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands.
Published in book form as Enterprising States,[4] a number of influential journal articles also flowed from these studies.
The first of these joint papers with Jenny M. Lewis won the American Society for Public Administration's Dimock Award in 2000.