Dr. Keith Dowding (ANU), Dr. Aaron Martin (Melbourne), and Dr. Rhonda Evans (UT-Austin) lead the Australian Policy Agendas Project.
Dr. Dowding and Dr. Martin coded legislation, executive speeches, opposition questions, public opinion, and media data, and Dr. Evans collected data on decisions of the High Court of Australia as well as additional media data. Data is forthcoming.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Keith Dowding, Dr. Aaron Martin, Dr. Rhonda Evans
Location: Australian National University, University of Melbourne, The University of Texas at Austin
Email: keith.dowding@anu.edu.au; aaron.martin@unimelb.edu.au; revans@austin.utexas.edu
Dr. Dowding and Dr. Martin’s research was funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery Award DP 110102622.
Dr. Evans’ research is funded by the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
Keith Dowding and Aaron Martin's Policy Agendas in Australia was published by Palgrave in 2017. This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project. It sets the project in context, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the changing policy agenda in Australia over a forty-year period, using a unique systematic dataset of governor-general speeches, legislation and parliamentary questions, and then mapping...
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