Opportunity Lost? Victorian Labor's Enactment of Community Development 1999-2006

Opportunity Lost

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11960269
AutoresRobert Nabben (Deakin University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen70
Número3
Páginas287-297
Fecha de publicación2011-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAustralian Journal of Public Administration (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0313-6647 • E-ISSN: 1467-8500
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8500.2011.00736.x
OpenAlexW1906371877
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas13

The idea of community development has been evoked by Australian governments over many decades. The expressions of community have differed widely, often as a result of politics rather than informed policy. In 1999, after seven years of radical neo-liberal restructuring in Victoria, the Bracks government found itself unexpectedly elected to power. They faced new challenges such as a diminished public sector, growing social inequality and climate change. The first two terms of Victorian Labor were a seminal period in terms of the role they would invoke for ‘community’. Did grass roots participation take a central place, or did rhetoric rule over substance? The evidence points to a government maintaining a neo-liberal trajectory, and thereby losing an opportunity to enable an active citizenry

Community development · Community organizing · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Inequality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Restructuring · Rhetoric · Sociology · Community Development and Social Impact · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Administration · Rural development and sustainability