The executive lawmaking agenda: Political parties,prime ministers,and policy change in Australia |
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Authors: | Andrew Gibbons Rhonda Evans |
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Institution: | Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA |
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Abstract: | In Westminster systems, governments enjoy a privileged position in the lawmaking process that they can use to deliver on their campaign promises and achieve their policy goals. What policy areas do governments seek to affect through lawmaking? How stable is the executive lawmaking agenda? How responsive is that agenda to changes triggered by elections or by transitions in prime minister? This study uses a dataset of 3982 Australian bills introduced between 2000 and 2017 to answer these questions. While it finds considerable stability in the policy content of executive lawmaking agendas, the analysis also indicates that Australia's executive lawmaking agenda is more responsive to changes in prime minister than to changes in the party in power. As the first application of the comparative policy agendas approaches to government bills in Australia, this article offers new insights into executive lawmaking priorities during an especially turbulent period in Australian politics. |
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Keywords: | agenda setting executive agendas legislative politics policy change political parties prime ministers 议程设置 行政议程 政策变革 establecimiento de agenda agendas ejecutivas cambio de políticas |
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