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dc.contributor.authorFenna, Alan
dc.contributor.authorTapper, Alan
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:57:33Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:57:33Z
dc.date.created2012-06-25T20:00:19Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationFenna, Alan and Tapper, Alan. 2012. The Australian Welfare State and the Neoliberalism Thesis. Australian Journal of Political Science. 47 (2): pp. 155-172.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27191
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10361146.2012.677007
dc.description.abstract

This paper uses Australian Bureau of Statistics fiscal incidence figures to track trends in the Australian welfare state across the period 1984 to 2004. Its general aim is to assess the proposition that recent governments have been ‘grave-diggers’ of the welfare state in Australia. More specifically, it tracks the overall level of social expenditure at the household level and the degree of vertical redistribution between households. Since the period in question covers twelve years of Labor and eight years of Coalition government in Canberra, the authors also seek evidence of political effect in welfare state trends. Their general conclusion is that far from succumbing to neoliberalism, the Australian welfare state became if anything even larger over this period. Neither bipartisan economic liberalisation, nor competing party welfare policies, made much difference to the welfare state when viewed through a fiscal incidence lens.

dc.publisherRoutledge Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group
dc.subjectTaxation
dc.subjectSocial Policy
dc.subjectFiscal Policy
dc.subjectNeoliberalism
dc.subjectRedistribution
dc.subjectWelfare State
dc.subjectInequality
dc.subjectFiscal Incidence
dc.titleThe Australian Welfare State and the Neoliberalism Thesis
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume47
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage155
dcterms.source.endPage172
dcterms.source.issn1036-1146
dcterms.source.titleAustralian Journal of Political Science
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