dc.contributor.author | Eccleston, Richard | |
dc.contributor.editor | ASPA | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-15T01:46:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-15T01:46:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
dc.date.modified | 2007-08-02T21:50:06Z | |
dc.identifier.refuri | http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/ept/politics/apsa/abstractsandpapers.html | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/13177 | |
dc.description.abstract | There are a number of unresolved debates among scholars concerning the nature of policy
transfer and its implications for policy analysis. For example, scholars of a rationalfunctionalist
orientation see the exchange of policy knowledge in positive terms – providing
governments with evidence of the benefits and problems associated with policy
experiments elsewhere. On the other hand, scholars of a more critical orientation regard
policy transfer as having the potential to constrain policy choices and privilege structurally
dominant actors in the policy process. Empirically it would seem that many different
processes result in policy transfer and that models of policy transfer are best regarded as
heuristic devices used to guide research into the policy transfer process. This paper employs
such an approach by using the policy transfer literature to gain insights into the origins of
one of the most politically contested policy agendas both in Australia and across most
industrialised nations in recent years – the introduction of VAT-style consumption taxes.1
The paper begins by mapping the proliferation of VAT-style taxes in the final decades of
the 20th Century. The paper then briefly review the policy transfer literature before using it
to guide a detail examination of process of policy transfer that led to the proliferation of
VATs. The paper concludes by assessing the implications of the VAT case study for both
theoretical debates within the policy transfer literature and broader debates about the nature
of the policy process. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Australasia Political Studies Association | |
dc.publisher.place | Newcastle | |
dc.publisher.uri | https://www.auspsa.org.au/ | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofconferencename | Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference | |
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitle | APSA Conference Newcastle 2006: Abstracts and Refereed Papers | |
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom | 2006-09-25 | |
dc.relation.ispartofdateto | 2006-09-27 | |
dc.relation.ispartoflocation | University of Newcastle | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 360101 | |
dc.title | Whose idea was it anyway? The dynamics of international policy transfer and the case of consumption tax reform | |
dc.type | Conference output | |
dc.type.description | E1 - Conferences | |
dc.type.code | E - Conference Publications | |
dc.description.version | Version of Record (VoR) | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Business School, School of Government and International Relations | |
gro.rights.copyright | © The Author(s) 2006. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this conference please refer to the conference’s website or contact the author(s). | |
gro.date.issued | 2006 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Eccleston, Richard | |