Regulation and Red Tape in a Small Open Economy: An Australian Overview

Berg, Chris

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“…Bozeman and Scott (1996) consequently conceptualise red tape as rules or procedures which serve no significant organisational purpose. Allen and Berg (2018, p. 2) define red tape as ‘regulation which exceeds the minimum amount of intervention necessary to tackle an identified social or economic problem’. The Commonwealth government has adopted a similar framework, including regulation that is ‘redundant or not justified by policy intent’ (p. III, see also Senate Select Committee on Red Tape, 2018).…”

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“…Australian governments, since at least the 1990s, have sought to reduce the regulatory burden. At the 1996 Federal election, Liberal Party leader John Howard declared his intention to ‘reduce the amount of regulation and red tape enveloping small business by 50%, during the first three years of government’ (Howard, 1996), and regulatory reduction has been a promise aired by one or both major parties in every subsequent Commonwealth election (Berg, 2018).…”

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The political economy of Australian regulatory reform

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The problem of regulatory accumulation has increasingly been recognised as a policy problem in its own right. Governments have then devised and implemented regulatory reform policies that directly seek to ameliorate the burdens of regulatory accumulation (e.g. red tape reduction targets). In this paper we examine regulatory reform approaches in Australia through the lens of policy innovation. Our contributions are twofold. We first examine the evolutionary discovery process of regulatory reform policies in Australia (at the federal, intergovernmental, and state levels). This demonstrates a process of policy innovation in regulatory mechanisms and measurements. We then analyse a new measurement of regulatory burden based on text analytics, RegData: Australia. RegData: Australia uses textual analysis to count ‘restrictiveness clauses' in regulation – such as ‘must’, ‘cannot’ and ‘shall’ – thereby developing a new database (RDAU1.0). We place this ‘restrictiveness clauses’ measurement within the context of regulatory policy innovation, and examine the potential for further innovation in regulatory reform mechanisms.

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“…The biggest hindrance to Australia coastal shipping trade is high levels of cabotage and the red tape in politics to proposing any reforms to existing legislation (Berg, 2017). Recent studies by Brooks (2014) and 2015and Porter (2015) have considered the current reforms and legislation of coastal shipping.…”

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Evaluating ocean carrier selection criteria: perspectives of Tasmanian shippers

Fanam

Ackerly

2019

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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the decision process of Tasmanian shippers when selecting an ocean carrier. Data collected through an internet-based survey is described, and influential selection criteria are reported with the use of exploratory factor analysis. The findings indicate that Tasmanian shippers are both price and service conscious. Tasmanian shippers, unlike their mainland Australian counterparts, have an overwhelming reliance on maritime transportation. The exploratory factor analysis indicates that service takes precedence over price for the subjects of the study. The findings indicate that network and schedule reliability and corporate social responsibility are influential in the choice of ocean freight services. Cargo security and seasonal capacity availability are similarly influential to Tasmania shippers. The study provides insight into the decision-making process of Tasmanian shippers. In this function, it may benefit Tasmanian ocean freight service providers by describing the characteristics that Tasmanian shippers find desirable in selecting between competing carriers. Thus, ocean freight service providers can formulate necessary strategies to attract Tasmania shippers to purchase their liner services.

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New Perspectives on Political Economy is a peer-reviewed semi-annual bilingual interdisciplinary journal, published since 2005 in Prague. The journal aims at contributing to scholarship at the intersection of political science, political philosophy, political economy and law. The main objective of the journal is to enhance our understanding of private property-, market-and individual liberty-based perspectives in the respected sciences. We also belive that only via exchange among social scientists from different fields and cross-disciplinary research can we critically analyze and fully understand forces that drive policy-making and be able to spell out policy implications and consequences. The journal welcomes submissions of unpublished research papers, book reviews, and educational notes.

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Regulation and Red Tape in a Small Open Economy: An Australian Overview

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The political economy of Australian regulatory reform

The political economy of Australian regulatory reform

Evaluating ocean carrier selection criteria: perspectives of Tasmanian shippers

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