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Advocacy coalitions in health policy
Citation
Shannon, EA, Advocacy coalitions in health policy, Public Administration Today, (20 Oct-Dec) pp. 49-63. ISSN 1832-0066 (2009) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
In this paper, Paul Sabatier's Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is used
to understand the timing and direction of change in Tasmanian health policy
and, in particular, the structure and governance of public hospital services,
The Tasmanian Government has had a defining role in determining these
organisational parameters. Legislation ratified the legal status of colonial
hospital boards (1878), before bringing them under state control (1918) and
eventually abolishing them in favour of regional boards (1991). Regional boards
were, in turn, abolished in favour of statewide governance structures (1997).
The recent (2008) introduction of Area health management structures now is
occurring within these statewide structures,
The ACF provides a synthesis of contemporary policy theory that allows for a
longitudinal approach to analysing public policy in the field. While most often
applied to environmental policy in the United States, here it is used to show how
conflict between health policy stakeholders is shaped by local conditions in one
Australian state, as well as by political and economic structures.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Studies in Human Society |
Research Group: | Policy and Administration |
Research Field: | Health Policy |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Government and Politics |
Objective Field: | Government and Politics not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Shannon, EA (Dr Elizabeth Shannon) |
ID Code: | 61074 |
Year Published: | 2009 |
Deposited By: | Government |
Deposited On: | 2010-02-25 |
Last Modified: | 2010-05-03 |
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