A load of old garbage : appying garbage-can theory to contemporary housing policy
By: TIERNAN, Anne
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Contributor(s): BURKE, Terry.
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, September 2002Australian Journal of Public Administration 61, 3, p. 86-97Abstract: This article reviews the applicability of Kingdon's garbage-can model of agenda setting and alternative specification for understanding the complexities of policy-making in the housing policy context. Garbage-can theories reject conventional `policy cycle' models which envisage policy development processes as rational and underspinned by the logic of which envisage policy development processes as rational and underpinned by the logic of problem solving. They posit a loose relationship between problems and the policy solutions problem solving. They posit a loose relationship between problems and the policy solutions offered by national governments. Using an Australian housing policy case study, this article demonstrates the usefulness of Kingdon's garbage-can theory. A modified framework is used to explain how the policy agenda has become narrowed to focus on safety-net assistance for the most disadvantaged, while housing problems have continued to worsen
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This article reviews the applicability of Kingdon's garbage-can model of agenda setting and alternative specification for understanding the complexities of policy-making in the housing policy context. Garbage-can theories reject conventional `policy cycle' models which envisage policy development processes as rational and underspinned by the logic of which envisage policy development processes as rational and underpinned by the logic of problem solving. They posit a loose relationship between problems and the policy solutions problem solving. They posit a loose relationship between problems and the policy solutions offered by national governments. Using an Australian housing policy case study, this article demonstrates the usefulness of Kingdon's garbage-can theory. A modified framework is used to explain how the policy agenda has become narrowed to focus on safety-net assistance for the most disadvantaged, while housing problems have continued to worsen
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