Rural policy assumptions and policy failure : the case of the re-establishment grant
By: BOTTERILL, Linda Courtenay
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, December 2001Australian Journal of Public Administration 60 , 4, p. 9-16Abstract: For 30 years successive Commonwealth governments have offered grants to encourage marginal farmers to quit forming. The grants have increased in generosity over time but there has only ever been a limited uptake of the program. This paper considers the assumptions policy-makers have made about farmers`behaviour in formulating these programs and compares these with sociological evidence about farmers` incentive structures. This case study provides an example of how the failure to take account of a sufficiently broad range of values when formulating policy can undermine policy objectives from the outset
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For 30 years successive Commonwealth governments have offered grants to encourage marginal farmers to quit forming. The grants have increased in generosity over time but there has only ever been a limited uptake of the program. This paper considers the assumptions policy-makers have made about farmers`behaviour in formulating these programs and compares these with sociological evidence about farmers` incentive structures. This case study provides an example of how the failure to take account of a sufficiently broad range of values when formulating policy can undermine policy objectives from the outset
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