Pub Date : 2020-12-22DOI: 10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.05
H. Ergas
{"title":"The global context for Federation: The spread of nationalism and the triumph of the nation-state","authors":"H. Ergas","doi":"10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41700,"journal":{"name":"Agenda-A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41421075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-22DOI: 10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.09
R. Pomfret
{"title":"Australia’s Federation episode in international context","authors":"R. Pomfret","doi":"10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41700,"journal":{"name":"Agenda-A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48443194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-22DOI: 10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.07
G. Melleuish
{"title":"Was Federation motivated by federalism?","authors":"G. Melleuish","doi":"10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41700,"journal":{"name":"Agenda-A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48773964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-22DOI: 10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.03
T. Sainsbury, Robert V. Breunig
{"title":"Tax planning in Australia’s income tax system","authors":"T. Sainsbury, Robert V. Breunig","doi":"10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41700,"journal":{"name":"Agenda-A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49336554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-22DOI: 10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.01
Bala Ramasamy, Jiarui Zhang, Alan K. M. Au, Matthew C. H. Yeung
{"title":"The trapped dragon: A province-by-province analysis of the middle-income trap in China","authors":"Bala Ramasamy, Jiarui Zhang, Alan K. M. Au, Matthew C. H. Yeung","doi":"10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41700,"journal":{"name":"Agenda-A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform","volume":"55 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41311451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-22DOI: 10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.06
Zachary Gorman
{"title":"Birthplace of a nation? Why Sydney voted no to Federation","authors":"Zachary Gorman","doi":"10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41700,"journal":{"name":"Agenda-A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform","volume":"101 1","pages":"125-148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72535570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-22DOI: 10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.04
William Coleman
{"title":"Federation without affirmation: A sketch of a revisionist program of research into ‘1901’","authors":"William Coleman","doi":"10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41700,"journal":{"name":"Agenda-A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41827831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-22DOI: 10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.08
Peter Phelps
{"title":"Federation: Liberalism triumphant? Or liberalism thwarted?","authors":"Peter Phelps","doi":"10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41700,"journal":{"name":"Agenda-A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45969039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-22DOI: 10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.02
M. Abbott, B. Cohen
{"title":"The changing nature of community service obligations in the postal sector and the future of Australia Post","authors":"M. Abbott, B. Cohen","doi":"10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41700,"journal":{"name":"Agenda-A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform","volume":"108 3-4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41289659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-06DOI: 10.22459/ag.26.01.2019.03
Nicholas Preval, Jenny Ombler, A. Grimes, M. Keall, P. Howden-Chapman
Considerable attention is now paid to establishing the extent of inequality in New Zealand and whether it has risen in recent years. This paper offers some insights into the inequality measures and interpretations that commonly feature in those debates. These typically relate annual Gini coefficients for various income definitions, or comparisons of income growth rates across income deciles. But cross‐sectional data fail to take into account the longitudinal dimension of inequality, and this can lead to misinterpretations of inequality data. The paper shows that examining longitudinal income data for the same individuals over time strongly contradicts some apparent messages of cross‐sectional evidence. For example, some recent cross‐sectional inequality measures suggest that the incomes of initially low‐income households grew at slower rates than those with initially higher incomes. This has been interpreted as the poorest earners being ‘left behind’. But recent longitudinal data, at least for individuals, reveals evidence of much faster‐than‐average growth among initially lower, compared to higher, income earners. Thus, ‘regression to the mean’ is a dominant feature of the longitudinal data. 1 John.creedy@vuw.ac.nz, Victoria University of Wellington; Victoria University of Wellington. The authors are very grateful to a referee for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. AgendA, Volume 26, number 1, 2019
{"title":"Government failure and success: A trans-Tasman comparison of two insulation subsidy schemes","authors":"Nicholas Preval, Jenny Ombler, A. Grimes, M. Keall, P. Howden-Chapman","doi":"10.22459/ag.26.01.2019.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ag.26.01.2019.03","url":null,"abstract":"Considerable attention is now paid to establishing the extent of inequality in New Zealand and whether it has risen in recent years. This paper offers some insights into the inequality measures and interpretations that commonly feature in those debates. These typically relate annual Gini coefficients for various income definitions, or comparisons of income growth rates across income deciles. But cross‐sectional data fail to take into account the longitudinal dimension of inequality, and this can lead to misinterpretations of inequality data. The paper shows that examining longitudinal income data for the same individuals over time strongly contradicts some apparent messages of cross‐sectional evidence. For example, some recent cross‐sectional inequality measures suggest that the incomes of initially low‐income households grew at slower rates than those with initially higher incomes. This has been interpreted as the poorest earners being ‘left behind’. But recent longitudinal data, at least for individuals, reveals evidence of much faster‐than‐average growth among initially lower, compared to higher, income earners. Thus, ‘regression to the mean’ is a dominant feature of the longitudinal data. 1 John.creedy@vuw.ac.nz, Victoria University of Wellington; Victoria University of Wellington. The authors are very grateful to a referee for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. AgendA, Volume 26, number 1, 2019","PeriodicalId":41700,"journal":{"name":"Agenda-A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45615307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}