Policy Agendas in Australia

✍ Scribed by Keith Dowding, Aaron Martin (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project. It sets the project in context, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the changing policy agenda in Australia over a forty-year period, using a unique systematic dataset of governor-general speeches, legislation and parliamentary questions, and then mapping these on to media coverage and what the public believes (according to poll evidence) government should be concentrating upon. The book answers some important questions in political science: what are the most important legislative priorities for government over time? Does the government follow talk with action? Does government attend to the issues the public identifies as most important? And how does media attention follow the policy agenda? The authors deploy their unique dataset to provide a new and exciting perspective on the nature of Australian public policy and the Comparative Policy Agendas Project more broadly.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Policy Agenda: Attention, Content, and Style....Pages 13-31
Theories and Concepts....Pages 33-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Political Institutions and Policy in Australia....Pages 59-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Executive and Legislative Agendas....Pages 87-128
Describing Legislative Patterns....Pages 129-148
Opposition Agendas....Pages 149-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
The Media Agenda....Pages 173-202
The Public Agenda....Pages 203-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Conclusion and Comparative Lessons....Pages 231-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-263

✦ Subjects

Public Policy;Political Communication;Electoral Politics;Political Theory