Australian Public Policy: Attention, Content and Style

Dowding, Keith; Hindmoor, Andrew; Martin, Aaron

doi:10.1111/1467-8500.12012

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“…We note here that policy attention and policy content are two different things (Dowding et al 2013). The fact that an issue is discussed in the public, or in parliament, or is subject to legislation increasing policy attention, does not mean that much changes in the content of policy.…”

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Policy agendas and immigration in Australia 1996 –2012

Boulus¹,

Dowding²,

Pietsch³

2013

Aust J Social Issues

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Immigration in Australia is inherently a controversial topic. Events such as the MV Tampa affair cause increased media and legislative attention but increased legislative attention in the policy area do not always follow such dramatic events. We analyse media and legislative attention in the area of immigration and show increased activity in parliament around both dramatic events discussed in the media and also over more technical issues. Increased attention within parliament sometimes occurs outside of the gaze of the media.

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Policy agendas and immigration in Australia 1996 –2012

Boulus¹,

Dowding²,

Pietsch³

2013

Aust J Social Issues

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“…The other might tackle it through a full-employment policy, trying to ensure that everyone has access to work. Although guides to coders try to ensure compatibility across countries, substantially different policies with the same impact might be coded differently (Dowding et al 2013). In another example, government support for the agricultural sector in Australia (particularly but not exclusively drought relief) has at least partly been directed at maintaining rural income stability (Cockfield and Botterill 2013).…”

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“… 1 In Dowding et al (2013), we referred to “substance” as “content”, but some reviewers objected to this term as the PAP/CAP policy codes are “content” in terms of issue areas. There is not much in name, but there is a difference between attention in a policy domain and the impact that the policies have in those domains. …”

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The Comparative Policy Agendas Project: theory, measurement and findings

Dowding¹,

Hindmoor²,

Martin³

2015

J. Pub. Pol.

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The Policy Agendas Project (PAP) was developed in the United States in the early 1990s as a means of collecting data on the contents of the policy agenda. The PAP coding method has subsequently been employed in the United Kingdom, a number of European countries, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, as well as the state of Pennsylvania (http://www.comparativeagendas.org/). What does PAP measure? How does it measure it? What does it find? How does it explain what it finds? We use these questions to structure our review.

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“…This contribution to the policy agendas project focuses on what Dowding, Hindmoor and Martin (2013) call the 'content' of economic policy. That is to say, it tells a story revolving around the actions Australian governments took.…”

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The Economic Policy Agenda in Australia, 1962–2012

Fenna

2013

Aust J Public Adm

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This paper surveys Australian economic policy over the last half century, identifying patterns and punctuations in the management of both macroeconomic and more structural challenges. It highlights the extent to which the economic policy agenda has been dictated by economic forces, while acknowledging the ideological preferences governments bring to their task. In retrospect, this half century in Australia has been dominated by macroeconomic turmoil and structural adjustment in the middle decades. Australian governments had to deal simultaneously with the macroeconomic problems of inflation and recession from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s while also facing the need to dismantle the development framework that had been in place since Federation or even earlier.

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Australian Public Policy: Attention, Content and Style

Cited by 11 publications

References 19 publications

Policy agendas and immigration in Australia 1996 –2012

Policy agendas and immigration in Australia 1996 –2012

The Comparative Policy Agendas Project: theory, measurement and findings

The Economic Policy Agenda in Australia, 1962–2012

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