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- Title
Rural and Regional Policy: A Case of Punctuated Incrementalism?
- Authors
Cockfield, Geoff; Botterill, Linda Courtenay
- Abstract
The rural policy environment has many of the conditions that might suggest a tendency towards punctuated equilibrium. The Commonwealth has little direct power over rural space and industries, there has been a long tradition of state support for agriculture and decision-making has generally been kept within a tight policy community, dominated by rural interests. In our review of the PAP data and policy history, we find instead an underlying movement across time and governments towards an expectation of self-reliance for rural businesses and communities. On top of the long-term incremental movement towards this expectation, issue attention has shifted according to political, climatological and market conditions, rather than necessarily in line with changes in policy content.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; RURAL population; PUNCTUATED equilibrium (Social science); AGRICULTURE; DECISION making in political science; SELF-reliance; AGRICULTURAL policy; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2013, Vol 72, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
0313-6647
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8500.12016