Tutorial Ticket (Week 10)
1. Think about a public policy success or failure related to your discipline. Tell us what the policy is and in 140 characters or less (a tweet) explain what you think the single, biggest reason was for success or failure of the policy.
2. Find a recent article (preferably from the last year) that demonstrates the failure of public policy to solve a particular issue. In 150 words, and with reference to either Graycar or Shergold's ideas, explain how the public policy process failed in this instance.
[N.B. Adam Graycar's ideas from 'Public Policy: core business and by-products' (2006) 8 Administration Today 6. Peter Shergold's ideas from 'Seen but not heard', The Australian (online), 4 May 2011, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/seen-but-not-heard/story-e6frg8nf-1226047007515.]
1. The ‘zero tolerance’ policy towards drug use is a failure because it ignored scientific evidence that rehabilitation is more effective.
2. Michael Pascoe’s article discusses how federal-state relations, and particularly the vertical fiscal imbalance, is impeding tax reform. This corresponds to Greycar’s suggestion that public policy may be shared not only between the domains of different departments, but between different levels of government. More importantly, it shows how an imperative arising in one area, namely tax policy and the States’ desire to generate their own revenue, can affect other areas such as housing affordability (through high stamp duties and the like).
The system is unlikely to change unless all actors, across governments and between governments, sit back and review the big picture. The governments have the capacity to streamline tax allocation and make it far more efficient. However, it appears that in Graycar’s terms, they lack the willingness to deal with the cross-domain issue.
Michael Pascoe, ‘Gormless states failing Australia’, SMH Online, October 6, 2011
http://www.smh.com.au/business/gormless-states-failing-australia-20111006-1lavn.html
2. Michael Pascoe’s article discusses how federal-state relations, and particularly the vertical fiscal imbalance, is impeding tax reform. This corresponds to Greycar’s suggestion that public policy may be shared not only between the domains of different departments, but between different levels of government. More importantly, it shows how an imperative arising in one area, namely tax policy and the States’ desire to generate their own revenue, can affect other areas such as housing affordability (through high stamp duties and the like).
The system is unlikely to change unless all actors, across governments and between governments, sit back and review the big picture. The governments have the capacity to streamline tax allocation and make it far more efficient. However, it appears that in Graycar’s terms, they lack the willingness to deal with the cross-domain issue.
Michael Pascoe, ‘Gormless states failing Australia’, SMH Online, October 6, 2011
http://www.smh.com.au/business/gormless-states-failing-australia-20111006-1lavn.html