Jacob Broom
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Broom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Broom |
| SIGNATURE | BROOM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4544-6076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Technologies of participation
This paper adopts a critical perspective that treats public participation in policy design not as a democratic ideal nor as a hollow ritual, but as a technology of governance: a set of tools, practices, and socio-technical arrangements through which governments structure reform, legitimise authority, and define policy possibilities. Drawing on governmentality and critical design studies, we develop the concept of ‘technologies of participation’ t…
An Australian Labor Party for the future (fund)
The Albanese Labor Government proposed the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) as a centrepiece of its housing policy before the 2022 election. The HAFF funds social and affordable housing through the returns of an off-budget fund invested in global financial markets. This paper analyses the 2023 political debate around the HAFF. It uses the HAFF as a case study to examine the politics of financialised policymaking, investigating the political a…
Feminist finance? The agendas and economies of gender lens investing
Gender lens investing (GLI) is booming. However, while intersecting feminism and social finance, it has received scant attention from political economy scholarship on either. We argue it requires specific attention because it is not reducible to ‘social finance with gender’ or the ‘business case’ for gender equality, though it contains elements of both. Through a three-part analysis, we examine its discourse, markets, and actors to locate GLI wit…
Scalecraft, scalecreep and scalecrunch
Financializing political rationality
Networks of knowledge production and mobility in the world of social impact bonds
Social impact bonds (SIBs) are a social policy model for privately financing social programs on an outcomes basis. Like other social and development policy trends of the last decade, the construction of SIBs has been characterised by a global circulatory infrastructure that has seen them emerge in upwards of 30 countries. In this article, we interrogate the dynamics of the SIB ‘policy world’ that has enabled that mobility. We build a novel dialog…
Policy, fast and slow
Governments are increasingly intrigued by the possibility of harnessing the private ‘social investment’ market to finance the delivery of social services. One social investment initiative in particular – Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) – has spread extensively within the global North. This article investigates the transnational mobility of SIBs by exploring the adoption and implementation of SIBs in New Zealand. It considers SIBs as a case of ‘fast po…
Social impact bonds and fast policy
Social impact bonds (SIBs) are attracting an increasing amount of critical scholarly attention. As an outcomes-based mechanism for financing social services, SIBs financialize social policy through the logic of impact investing. Responding to calls for attention to the politics of SIBs' development, and breaking with the literature's focus on cases from the UK and USA, this article explores the emergence of SIBs in Australia. It employs the conce…
Social impact bonds and fast policy
Social impact bonds (SIBs) are attracting an increasing amount of critical scholarly attention. As an outcomes-based mechanism for financing social services, SIBs financialize social policy through the logic of impact investing. Responding to calls for attention to the politics of SIBs' development, and breaking with the literature's focus on cases from the UK and USA, this article explores the emergence of SIBs in Australia. It employs the conce…
Networks of knowledge production and mobility in the world of social impact bonds
Social impact bonds (SIBs) are a social policy model for privately financing social programs on an outcomes basis. Like other social and development policy trends of the last decade, the construction of SIBs has been characterised by a global circulatory infrastructure that has seen them emerge in upwards of 30 countries. In this article, we interrogate the dynamics of the SIB ‘policy world’ that has enabled that mobility. We build a novel dialog…
Policy, fast and slow
Governments are increasingly intrigued by the possibility of harnessing the private ‘social investment’ market to finance the delivery of social services. One social investment initiative in particular – Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) – has spread extensively within the global North. This article investigates the transnational mobility of SIBs by exploring the adoption and implementation of SIBs in New Zealand. It considers SIBs as a case of ‘fast po…
Policy, fast and slow
Governments are increasingly intrigued by the possibility of harnessing the private ‘social investment’ market to finance the delivery of social services. One social investment initiative in particular – Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) – has spread extensively within the global North. This article investigates the transnational mobility of SIBs by exploring the adoption and implementation of SIBs in New Zealand. It considers SIBs as a case of ‘fast po…
Social impact bonds and fast policy
Social impact bonds (SIBs) are attracting an increasing amount of critical scholarly attention. As an outcomes-based mechanism for financing social services, SIBs financialize social policy through the logic of impact investing. Responding to calls for attention to the politics of SIBs' development, and breaking with the literature's focus on cases from the UK and USA, this article explores the emergence of SIBs in Australia. It employs the conce…
Networks of knowledge production and mobility in the world of social impact bonds
Social impact bonds (SIBs) are a social policy model for privately financing social programs on an outcomes basis. Like other social and development policy trends of the last decade, the construction of SIBs has been characterised by a global circulatory infrastructure that has seen them emerge in upwards of 30 countries. In this article, we interrogate the dynamics of the SIB ‘policy world’ that has enabled that mobility. We build a novel dialog…
Financializing political rationality
Technologies of participation
This paper adopts a critical perspective that treats public participation in policy design not as a democratic ideal nor as a hollow ritual, but as a technology of governance: a set of tools, practices, and socio-technical arrangements through which governments structure reform, legitimise authority, and define policy possibilities. Drawing on governmentality and critical design studies, we develop the concept of ‘technologies of participation’ t…
An Australian Labor Party for the future (fund)
The Albanese Labor Government proposed the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) as a centrepiece of its housing policy before the 2022 election. The HAFF funds social and affordable housing through the returns of an off-budget fund invested in global financial markets. This paper analyses the 2023 political debate around the HAFF. It uses the HAFF as a case study to examine the politics of financialised policymaking, investigating the political a…
Feminist finance? The agendas and economies of gender lens investing
Gender lens investing (GLI) is booming. However, while intersecting feminism and social finance, it has received scant attention from political economy scholarship on either. We argue it requires specific attention because it is not reducible to ‘social finance with gender’ or the ‘business case’ for gender equality, though it contains elements of both. Through a three-part analysis, we examine its discourse, markets, and actors to locate GLI wit…
Scalecraft, scalecreep and scalecrunch
Politics (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Community Development and Social Impact (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public-Private Partnership Projects (3 works) · Social policy (3 works) · Economic system (2 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (2 works)