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Setting the post-war Australian policy agenda – causes and content
Citation
Marsh, I, Setting the post-war Australian policy agenda - causes and content, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 72, (4) pp. 473-480. ISSN 0313-6647 (2013) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2013 National Council of the Institute of Public Administration Australia
DOI: doi:10.1111/1467-8500.12046
Abstract
What are the origins of policy agendas and what determines agenda setting? The one robust theory in the literature associates different agendas with different moments in the evolution of the broader party system namely mass, catch-all and most recently cartel patterns. This article explores Australian evidence for this thesis. It also argues the cartel moment has recently mutated. Agenda setting is now circumscribed by a mismatch between the needs of policy making and the political incentive structure. The media have become primary tissue connecting political elites to their publics. But this traps the system in short term, primarily populist stances. Systemic capacities to mediate agenda setting have thus been corrupted.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | political parties, public policy, agenda setting, policy agendas |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Political science |
Research Field: | Australian government and politics |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Government and politics |
Objective Field: | Political systems |
UTAS Author: | Marsh, I (Professor Ian Marsh) |
ID Code: | 90968 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 1 |
Deposited By: | Australian Innovation Research Centre |
Deposited On: | 2014-05-05 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-15 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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