Between the Market and the State: The Role of Australian Business Associations in Public Policy

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Bell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Business Associations

scholarly journals Policies governing the mechanisms of referees

2019 ◽  
pp. 65-96
Author(s):  
أ.م.د.فرح ضياء حسين
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research Hypothesis

The importance of research stems from the prominent role of leaders in the political, administrative, economic and societal spheres in general, which requires highlighting this angle. Research Hypothesis Modern policies work with mechanisms that limit the clear role of governors and transform the ruler into an executive man. It can be assumed that the type of public policy of the state is the only criterion that transfers the ruler from a ruler to an executive.

Economic rationalism in Canberra 25 years on?

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Pusey
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Political Project

This article, based on an edited transcript of a speech at The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) conference in Melbourne in December 2016, summarises the criticisms of ‘economic rationalism’, cum neoliberalism, that emerged from the ‘economic rationalism debate’ in Australia of the early 1990s to the present. Economic rationalism reversed Australia’s historic nation-building legacy. Free market neoliberal doctrines have captured the central Canberra policy-making apparatus and radically reduced the coordinating role of the state in most areas of public policy. Economic ‘reform’ is seen primarily as a political project led by international and domestic corporate interest groupings and aimed at the transformation of Australia’s institutions. The neoliberal orthodoxy continues to distort the policy process as it has become functionally indispensable for the process of policy making and government, despite its failing intellectual legitimacy.

scholarly journals The Role of the State in Industrial Relations: A Comment

2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
Bryan M. Downie
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Labour Legislation ◽  
Canadian Public Policy

In this paper, the author takes issues with comments by Sack and Lee that changes to British Columbia's labour legislation represent retrenchment in Canadian public policy in labour relations. In discussing the issue, he draws on the experience with a similar approach in Ontario.

Challenges in Estimating the Effects of Constitutional Design on Public Policy

2019 ◽  
pp. 437-450
Author(s):  
Stefan Voigt ◽  
Jerg Gutmann
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Constitutional Economics ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Constitutional Design ◽  
Great Progress

Empirical constitutional economics has made great progress since the beginning of the millennium. Numerous important insights into the effects of constitutions have been uncovered. Rather than just summarizing the state of the art, this chapter identifies some of the most important challenges and pressing questions to be addressed by constitutional economics scholars. It further discusses the possible role of different empirical methods in this field of research. In spite of the progress that has been achieved, much work is left to be done and some of the early empirical findings might easily be overturned based on new and more reliable empirical evidence.

scholarly journals Prerequisites Versus Diffusion: Testing Alternative Explanations of Social Security Adoption

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 1299-1315 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Collier ◽  
Richard E. Messick
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Security ◽  
The State ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Hierarchical Diffusion ◽  
Diffusion Effects ◽  
Cross National

Cross-national research has, with a few exceptions, dealt exclusively with hypotheses that focus on causal relations within nations. It is increasingly clear both on substantive and methodological grounds, however, that diffusion effects among nations must also be considered. The present research combines these alternative perspectives in an analysis of the timing of the first adoption of social security in nations. It is found that not only prerequisites explanations—which focus on causes within each nation—but also spatial and hierarchical diffusion effects must be considered in explaining patterns of social security adoption. The most important overall pattern, which appears to result from diffusion, is the tendency for later adopters to adopt at lower levels of modernization. This finding is interpreted as being due in part to a general tendency toward a larger role of the state in later developing countries—involving an important difference in thesequencein which different aspects of modernization occur—and in part to special characteristics of social security as a public policy.

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