Public Policy in the Australian Journal of Political Science: a review
This paper surveys the contribution that articles on public policy have made to this journal in its first half-century. To help organise those contributions, the paper makes a rough distinction between works of a primarily explanatory nature and those that can be thought of as having a substantive f...
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| description | This paper surveys the contribution that articles on public policy have made to this journal in its first half-century. To help organise those contributions, the paper makes a rough distinction between works of a primarily explanatory nature and those that can be thought of as having a substantive focus on analysing particular policy areas or issues. It observes the paucity of policy studies in the 1960s and 1970; the rapid rise in the 1980s; and a plateauing and even perhaps decline after that. It notes the desultory interest in theoretical questions and welcome attempts to employ the comparative method. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-51892020-07-22T04:53:46Z Public Policy in the Australian Journal of Political Science: a review Fenna, Alan This paper surveys the contribution that articles on public policy have made to this journal in its first half-century. To help organise those contributions, the paper makes a rough distinction between works of a primarily explanatory nature and those that can be thought of as having a substantive focus on analysing particular policy areas or issues. It observes the paucity of policy studies in the 1960s and 1970; the rapid rise in the 1980s; and a plateauing and even perhaps decline after that. It notes the desultory interest in theoretical questions and welcome attempts to employ the comparative method. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5189 10.1080/10361146.2015.1114554 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Fenna, Alan Public Policy in the Australian Journal of Political Science: a review |
| title | Public Policy in the Australian Journal of Political Science: a review |
| title_full | Public Policy in the Australian Journal of Political Science: a review |
| title_fullStr | Public Policy in the Australian Journal of Political Science: a review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Public Policy in the Australian Journal of Political Science: a review |
| title_short | Public Policy in the Australian Journal of Political Science: a review |
| title_sort | public policy in the australian journal of political science: a review |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5189 |