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State capacity for policy making: has it diminished? Can it be renewed?

Marsh, Ian

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Responding to a leaked Cabinet submission on possible future funding arrangements for higher education, Prime Minister Howard commented: ‘We have got to have a capacity in this country to have a sensible discussion about long-term policy issues without everything being distorted and blown out of the water by misrepresentation’ (Sydney Morning Herald, 16th October 1999, p. 49). This paper, in endorsing the Prime Minister’s observation, advances three propositions. First, this gap has emerged in...[Show more]

CollectionsANU Research Publications
Date published: 2001
Type: Working/Technical Paper
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/41603
http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/41603

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