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The Five‐Thread Model & Academic Policy Entrepreneurs: From the White Australia Policy to Multicultural Australia

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why did Australia go from the White Australia Policy, which excluded non‐whites, to institutionalizing multiculturalism policy in the 1970s? This question defies traditional political ideologies of the major political parties, which had long supported the White Australia Policy. This article is a rare empirical demonstration of the Five‐Thread
Julius C. S. Mok
wiley   +1 more source

[Design and validation of an automated testing system for essential performance parameters of ventilators]. [PDF]

open access: yesSheng Wu Yi Xue Gong Cheng Xue Za Zhi
Li Y   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Blocking the Poor: Status Quo Bias in Policy Congruence

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on unequal responsiveness has shown that policies tend to align more closely with the preferences of high‐income citizens than low‐income citizens. Using comparative data on opinions and policies, we suggest that this inequality primarily results from status quo bias; asymmetric blocking power drives unequal congruence rather than ...
Mikael Persson, Anders Sundell
wiley   +1 more source

Who Deserves Scarce Health and Education Resources? How Policy Context Shapes Target Group Deservingness

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The social construction of target populations (SCTP) framework emphasizes the ways in which target populations' levels of political power and deservingness shape the allocation of policy benefits, but less attention has been devoted to the conditions under which the same target population may be considered deserving in one policy context but ...
Elizabeth Bell   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Narratives and Empowerment: Implementation of the Swedish National Violence Prevention Program

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) begins to unpack issues of power and narratives, the main focus has been on power‐over and domination rather than more transformative notions of power‐to and empowerment. This article draws on insights from gender and policy studies and suggests that the NPF benefits from adopting a multifaceted notion ...
Hilda Broqvist
wiley   +1 more source

Issue Attention in Public Opinion Polls: Pollsters as Agenda Responders and Agenda Setters

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polling organizations, like other policy actors, must prioritize certain issues. We argue that, for normative and financial reasons, pollsters prioritize issues that are viewed as important by other institutions and the public, leading them to focus survey questions on issues that are on congressional and media agendas, and which are public ...
Qian Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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