Great expectations: what regional policy can achieve in Australia
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Article Title | Great expectations: what regional policy can achieve in Australia |
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ERA Journal ID | 45081 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Collits, Paul |
Journal Title | Farm Policy Journal |
Journal Citation | 3 (3), pp. 1-11 |
Number of Pages | 11 |
Year | 2006 |
Publisher | Australian Farm Institute |
Place of Publication | Sydney, Australia |
ISSN | 1449-2210 |
1449-8812 | |
Web Address (URL) | http://103.37.8.116/~farminst/product/fpj0303-article-great-expectations-what-regional-policy-can-achieve-in-australia/ |
Abstract | There is a fundamental mismatch in Australia between the expectations that many have of regional policies – defined as deliberate interventions by government to improve the position of particular places – and the capacity of these policies to deliver. This is both because the expectations are unreasonably high and because regional policy’s effectiveness is relatively limited. It is important to achieve a better alignment between expectations and likely outcomes, if only to focus the best minds in regional development on doing better what is actually achievable, and away from entertaining big ideas based on delusions of policy grandeur. Policy development should be based on serious analysis and not just a response to the voices of interest groups or to those regional problems that are urgent and visible. The end result of such an exercise would not be greater government intervention, but better intervention. |
Keywords | regional planning; decision making; public administration evaluation |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440699. Human geography not elsewhere classified |
380118. Urban and regional economics | |
330406. Regional analysis and development | |
Byline Affiliations | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q0qv3/great-expectations-what-regional-policy-can-achieve-in-australia
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