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The Rhetorical Framing of Policy Intervention
Citation
Grube, DC, The Rhetorical Framing of Policy Intervention, Australian Journal of Political Science, 45, (4) pp. 559-578. ISSN 1036-1146 (2010) [Refereed Article]
DOI: doi:10.1080/10361146.2010.517175
Abstract
When prime ministers speak, the nation usually listens. In the Australian federation, prime ministers have consistently used the power of their political pulpit to launch policy interventions into areas of traditional State responsibility. This article suggests that there is an emerging rhetorical pattern to the way these policy interventions are presented. Primeministers of bothmajor parties have used rhetoric to portray the Commonwealth as acting on behalf of the legitimate interests of constituents who have been ignored by State governments. Occurring in close proximity to federal elections, policy interventions are shown to be weapons which favour incumbent prime ministers in their battleswith State governments and federal oppositions alike. © 2010 Australian Political Studies Association.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Political science |
Research Field: | Political science not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Government and politics |
Objective Field: | Government and politics not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Grube, DC (Associate Professor Dennis Grube) |
ID Code: | 99022 |
Year Published: | 2010 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 14 |
Deposited By: | Arts, Law and Education |
Deposited On: | 2015-03-11 |
Last Modified: | 2015-03-11 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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