Alastair Stark
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alastair Stark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alastair |
| FAMILY NAME | Stark |
| SIGNATURE | STARK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6756-4028 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Institutional Amnesia and Public Administration: Does History Repeat?
Existing research suggests that a lack of institutional memory causes history to repeat in problematic ways within public administration agencies. However, this claim has not been well supported by theory or data that illuminates the process and effects of history repeating. To remedy this, the nascent concept of institutional amnesia is presented here as a means of theorizing repetitions of public administrative history. A sequential explanatory…
The traveller's guide to policy learning
This article claims that when it comes to policy learning success, the most important variables are those that influence how well a learned-lesson travels. Consequently, it offers a 'traveller's guide' to policy learning. The guide begins with the presentation of a new concept that we have labelled 'dynamic capacity' which aims to capture the ways in which learned lessons need to move across time and space and consolidate downwards into the insti…
A return to the classics? The implementation of royal commissions in Australia
This article examines the extent to which twenty-first century, federal-level Royal Commissions in Australia have been implemented. The findings have been produced from a three-year project which has operationalised a two-stage methodology. Stage one tracked 444 Royal Commission recommendations across six cases to determine the proportion that was implemented or ‘shelved’ by the government. Stage two interviewed key stakeholders with an interest …
Policy inaction meets policy learning: Four moments of non-implementation
Public inquiries as procedural policy tools
In this article we conceptualise the public inquiry as a procedural tool and address the question of what makes a public inquiry an effective policy instrument. The issue of control is central to our arguments. In our conceptual work, we use control as a means of introducing the concept of the ‘catalytic procedural tool’ to better capture the variance in autonomy, location and function that can be associated with different inquiries. In our evalu…
Dramaturgy and crisis management: A third act
Dramaturgical perspectives have been used successfully in the past by crisis management researchers. However, previous contributions have been limited because they have been actor‐centered, which has meant that they have tended to ignore the critical role that an audience can play in the drama of a crisis. This article therefore presents a “third act” in which dramaturgical perspectives are used to deliver an actor‐and‐audience centered analysis …
Understanding policy responses to Covid-19: The Stars Haven’t Fallen From the Sky for Scholars of Public Policy
Responses to COVID-19 across the globe are immensely varied and often perplexing. Policy levers, from mask wearing and social distancing to lockdowns and school closures, have been adopted and avoided with equal conviction by decisions makers who believe their measures are appropriate. In some contexts, the global pandemic has been treated with due seriousness by governments and political leaders while in others it has been downplayed to such an …
Left on the shelf: Explaining the failure of public inquiry recommendations
Public inquiries remain the pre‐eminent mechanism for lesson‐learning after high‐profile failures. However, a regular complaint is that their recommendations get ‘shelved’. In political science, the most common explanation for this lack of implementation tells us that elites mobilize bias in order to undermine inquiry lesson‐learning. This article tests this thesis via an international comparison of inquiries in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and…
Policy learning and the public inquiry
Can public inquiries learn lessons in ways which can reduce the likelihood of future failure? Political science research has consistently stated that the answer to this question should be an emphatic no and defined the public inquiry as an ineffectual lesson-learning mechanism. This article, however, contends that this conventional wisdom needs to be revisited. Drawing upon policy learning research for its theory, and 100 interviews across four i…
Institutional amnesia and public policy
Institutional amnesia continues to be ignored by policy scholars despite the fact that it can undermine the effectiveness of public policy in various ways. In calling on policy scholars to start taking amnesia seriously as a research concern, this article provides data and analytical tools to help develop that agenda. The data are drawn from an international comparison of policy learning and amnesia in four Westminster systems (Australia, Canada,…
Explaining institutional amnesia in government
This article explains why different government agencies experience variations in organizational memory loss. It first explains institutional amnesia theoretically by expanding the formal‐institutional view of organizational memory to include agential and structural‐contextual properties, revealing a broader range of novel explanations for amnesia. Institutional amnesia is then explained empirically through an international analysis of memory loss…
Public Inquiries, Policy Learning, and the Threat of Future Crises
This book is animated by a simple but very important question. Can post-crisis inquiries deliver effective lesson-learning which will reduce our vulnerability to future threats? Conventional wisdom suggests that the answer to this question should be an emphatic no. Inquiries are regularly vilified as costly wastes of time that illuminate very little and change even less. This book, however, draws upon evidence from an international comparison of …
Connecting social and environmental policy in Australia: Collateral gains or collateral damage
Climate change research relating to “co‐benefits” suggests that the facilitation of social‐welfare outcomes through environmental policy offers a powerful means of incentivising climate change action. Concerns about social‐welfare, however, are often used to undermine climate change policies, typically through political claims that low‐to‐middle‐income households should not shoulder the costs of greater policy alignment between social and environ…
New institutionalism, critical junctures and post-crisis policy reform
Two accounts of change dominate with new institutional literature. The first emphasises 'punctuated equilibria' in which change is shock-driven, sudden and radical enough to loosen path dependencies. The second emphasises a more gradual-incrementalism and a view of change that is more or less constant. This article argues that neither account is suitable for the policy scholar interested in understanding the complexity of a post-crisis reform per…
Rating the debates: The 2010 UK party leaders’ debates and political communication in the deliberative system
Community resilience and crisis management: Policy Lessons From the Ground
Community resilience is a central concept within crisis management policymaking, but it has escaped critical analysis. This article responds to this problem by examining a community-led response to a large natural disaster (the Queensland floods of 2010–11). The findings emerge from the application of a novel ethnographic method, uniquely informed by an insider’s view of the disaster, which generated narratives from ‘the ground’. These narratives…
More micro than meta? Competing concepts of metagovernance in the European Union
Interactive and state-centric relational governance scholars disagree about the concept of metagovernance. Contestation relates to who can metagovern, the processes that can steer policy networks and the extent of autonomy held by non-state actors. This article uses data generated from interviews with policy officials and document analysis to examine the validity of these competing claims in relation to a European crisis management network. The f…
Bureaucratic Values and Resilience: An Exploration of Crisis Management Adaptation
The concept of resilience has gained currency as a motif under which governments have sought to improve their responses to crises. At the heart of this agenda is an understanding that crisis management must be adaptable. Yet crises continue to expose the intransigent nature of central bureaucracies. This article addresses this issue by exploring how bureaucratic values can affect the ability of agents to adapt to the challenges of crises. Data ar…
Citizen participation, community resilience and crisis-management policy
This article presents two arguments. The first relates to the relevance of citizen participation vis-à-vis the design and implementation of public policy. More specifically, the article empirically demonstrates how a model of community decentralisation can have a number of practical benefits for crisis-management policy. The second argument relates to a question that has come to characterise studies of citizen participation in public policy. Why …
Best Laid Plans … The Institutionalisation of Public Deliberation in Scotland
Despite increasing support for participatory and deliberative principles amongst academics, practitioners and parliamentarians alike, efforts to infuse political systems with more inclusive and consensual forms of debate often founder. This article explores this conundrum by examining institutional reforms through the lens of deliberative democracy. More specifically, we scrutinise attempts to institutionalise forms of civic deliberation within t…
Institutionalising public deliberation: Insights from the Scottish Parliament
Legislatures: Help or hindrance in achieving successful crisis management
Legislatures have the potential to influence the politics and policies of crisis management. As such, they deserve analytical treatment from those interested in the effectiveness of state-led efforts to resolve crises. However, determining and evaluating the extent of a legislature's involvement in a crisis management process is a complicated research endeavour. The purpose of this article is to reduce this complexity by presenting a research fra…
The Tradition of Ministerial Responsibility and Its Role in the Bureaucratic Management of Crises
This article explores the relationship between the United Kingdom's doctrine of ministerial responsibility and bureaucratic efforts to control four contemporary crises. Evidence emerges from a series of interviews with experienced crisis managers, which draws attention to the way in which this convention: (1) tacitly conditioned the thinking and behaviour of bureaucratic crisis actors through their sensitivity to political risk; and (2) was reint…
A New Perspective on Constituency Representation: British Parliamentarians and the ‘Management’ of Crises
This article examines the constituency roles performed by members of the House of Commons, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly during four crises. While the constituency work of British parliamentarians has already attracted the attention of scholars, this article emerges from a belief that new findings about legislatures can be generated by examining familiar representative functions during the abnormal context of a crisis. In order t…
Bureaucratic Failure and the UK's Lack of Preparedness for Foot and Mouth Disease
This article explores the UK's lack of preparedness for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and the consequences for the 2001 outbreak. First, it utilises literature on crisis management and policy failure in order explore the problems caused by, and explanations for, lack of crisis preparedness. Second, it examines in detail a series of overlapping bureaucratic failures, particularly on the part of the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF…
Institutional amnesia and public policy
Institutional amnesia continues to be ignored by policy scholars despite the fact that it can undermine the effectiveness of public policy in various ways. In calling on policy scholars to start taking amnesia seriously as a research concern, this article provides data and analytical tools to help develop that agenda. The data are drawn from an international comparison of policy learning and amnesia in four Westminster systems (Australia, Canada,…
Policy learning and the public inquiry
Can public inquiries learn lessons in ways which can reduce the likelihood of future failure? Political science research has consistently stated that the answer to this question should be an emphatic no and defined the public inquiry as an ineffectual lesson-learning mechanism. This article, however, contends that this conventional wisdom needs to be revisited. Drawing upon policy learning research for its theory, and 100 interviews across four i…
New institutionalism, critical junctures and post-crisis policy reform
Two accounts of change dominate with new institutional literature. The first emphasises 'punctuated equilibria' in which change is shock-driven, sudden and radical enough to loosen path dependencies. The second emphasises a more gradual-incrementalism and a view of change that is more or less constant. This article argues that neither account is suitable for the policy scholar interested in understanding the complexity of a post-crisis reform per…
Bureaucratic Values and Resilience: An Exploration of Crisis Management Adaptation
The concept of resilience has gained currency as a motif under which governments have sought to improve their responses to crises. At the heart of this agenda is an understanding that crisis management must be adaptable. Yet crises continue to expose the intransigent nature of central bureaucracies. This article addresses this issue by exploring how bureaucratic values can affect the ability of agents to adapt to the challenges of crises. Data ar…
Citizen participation, community resilience and crisis-management policy
This article presents two arguments. The first relates to the relevance of citizen participation vis-à-vis the design and implementation of public policy. More specifically, the article empirically demonstrates how a model of community decentralisation can have a number of practical benefits for crisis-management policy. The second argument relates to a question that has come to characterise studies of citizen participation in public policy. Why …
Understanding policy responses to Covid-19: The Stars Haven’t Fallen From the Sky for Scholars of Public Policy
Responses to COVID-19 across the globe are immensely varied and often perplexing. Policy levers, from mask wearing and social distancing to lockdowns and school closures, have been adopted and avoided with equal conviction by decisions makers who believe their measures are appropriate. In some contexts, the global pandemic has been treated with due seriousness by governments and political leaders while in others it has been downplayed to such an …
Institutionalising public deliberation: Insights from the Scottish Parliament
The Tradition of Ministerial Responsibility and Its Role in the Bureaucratic Management of Crises
This article explores the relationship between the United Kingdom's doctrine of ministerial responsibility and bureaucratic efforts to control four contemporary crises. Evidence emerges from a series of interviews with experienced crisis managers, which draws attention to the way in which this convention: (1) tacitly conditioned the thinking and behaviour of bureaucratic crisis actors through their sensitivity to political risk; and (2) was reint…
Public inquiries as procedural policy tools
In this article we conceptualise the public inquiry as a procedural tool and address the question of what makes a public inquiry an effective policy instrument. The issue of control is central to our arguments. In our conceptual work, we use control as a means of introducing the concept of the ‘catalytic procedural tool’ to better capture the variance in autonomy, location and function that can be associated with different inquiries. In our evalu…
Explaining institutional amnesia in government
This article explains why different government agencies experience variations in organizational memory loss. It first explains institutional amnesia theoretically by expanding the formal‐institutional view of organizational memory to include agential and structural‐contextual properties, revealing a broader range of novel explanations for amnesia. Institutional amnesia is then explained empirically through an international analysis of memory loss…
The traveller's guide to policy learning
This article claims that when it comes to policy learning success, the most important variables are those that influence how well a learned-lesson travels. Consequently, it offers a 'traveller's guide' to policy learning. The guide begins with the presentation of a new concept that we have labelled 'dynamic capacity' which aims to capture the ways in which learned lessons need to move across time and space and consolidate downwards into the insti…
Left on the shelf: Explaining the failure of public inquiry recommendations
Public inquiries remain the pre‐eminent mechanism for lesson‐learning after high‐profile failures. However, a regular complaint is that their recommendations get ‘shelved’. In political science, the most common explanation for this lack of implementation tells us that elites mobilize bias in order to undermine inquiry lesson‐learning. This article tests this thesis via an international comparison of inquiries in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and…
Policy inaction meets policy learning: Four moments of non-implementation
Dramaturgy and crisis management: A third act
Dramaturgical perspectives have been used successfully in the past by crisis management researchers. However, previous contributions have been limited because they have been actor‐centered, which has meant that they have tended to ignore the critical role that an audience can play in the drama of a crisis. This article therefore presents a “third act” in which dramaturgical perspectives are used to deliver an actor‐and‐audience centered analysis …
Rating the debates: The 2010 UK party leaders’ debates and political communication in the deliberative system
Community resilience and crisis management: Policy Lessons From the Ground
Community resilience is a central concept within crisis management policymaking, but it has escaped critical analysis. This article responds to this problem by examining a community-led response to a large natural disaster (the Queensland floods of 2010–11). The findings emerge from the application of a novel ethnographic method, uniquely informed by an insider’s view of the disaster, which generated narratives from ‘the ground’. These narratives…
More micro than meta? Competing concepts of metagovernance in the European Union
Interactive and state-centric relational governance scholars disagree about the concept of metagovernance. Contestation relates to who can metagovern, the processes that can steer policy networks and the extent of autonomy held by non-state actors. This article uses data generated from interviews with policy officials and document analysis to examine the validity of these competing claims in relation to a European crisis management network. The f…
A return to the classics? The implementation of royal commissions in Australia
This article examines the extent to which twenty-first century, federal-level Royal Commissions in Australia have been implemented. The findings have been produced from a three-year project which has operationalised a two-stage methodology. Stage one tracked 444 Royal Commission recommendations across six cases to determine the proportion that was implemented or ‘shelved’ by the government. Stage two interviewed key stakeholders with an interest …
Bureaucratic Failure and the UK's Lack of Preparedness for Foot and Mouth Disease
This article explores the UK's lack of preparedness for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and the consequences for the 2001 outbreak. First, it utilises literature on crisis management and policy failure in order explore the problems caused by, and explanations for, lack of crisis preparedness. Second, it examines in detail a series of overlapping bureaucratic failures, particularly on the part of the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF…
Connecting social and environmental policy in Australia: Collateral gains or collateral damage
Climate change research relating to “co‐benefits” suggests that the facilitation of social‐welfare outcomes through environmental policy offers a powerful means of incentivising climate change action. Concerns about social‐welfare, however, are often used to undermine climate change policies, typically through political claims that low‐to‐middle‐income households should not shoulder the costs of greater policy alignment between social and environ…
A New Perspective on Constituency Representation: British Parliamentarians and the ‘Management’ of Crises
This article examines the constituency roles performed by members of the House of Commons, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly during four crises. While the constituency work of British parliamentarians has already attracted the attention of scholars, this article emerges from a belief that new findings about legislatures can be generated by examining familiar representative functions during the abnormal context of a crisis. In order t…
Bureaucratic Failure and the UK's Lack of Preparedness for Foot and Mouth Disease
This article explores the UK's lack of preparedness for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and the consequences for the 2001 outbreak. First, it utilises literature on crisis management and policy failure in order explore the problems caused by, and explanations for, lack of crisis preparedness. Second, it examines in detail a series of overlapping bureaucratic failures, particularly on the part of the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF…
A New Perspective on Constituency Representation: British Parliamentarians and the ‘Management’ of Crises
This article examines the constituency roles performed by members of the House of Commons, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly during four crises. While the constituency work of British parliamentarians has already attracted the attention of scholars, this article emerges from a belief that new findings about legislatures can be generated by examining familiar representative functions during the abnormal context of a crisis. In order t…
Best Laid Plans … The Institutionalisation of Public Deliberation in Scotland
Despite increasing support for participatory and deliberative principles amongst academics, practitioners and parliamentarians alike, efforts to infuse political systems with more inclusive and consensual forms of debate often founder. This article explores this conundrum by examining institutional reforms through the lens of deliberative democracy. More specifically, we scrutinise attempts to institutionalise forms of civic deliberation within t…
Institutionalising public deliberation: Insights from the Scottish Parliament
Legislatures: Help or hindrance in achieving successful crisis management
Legislatures have the potential to influence the politics and policies of crisis management. As such, they deserve analytical treatment from those interested in the effectiveness of state-led efforts to resolve crises. However, determining and evaluating the extent of a legislature's involvement in a crisis management process is a complicated research endeavour. The purpose of this article is to reduce this complexity by presenting a research fra…
The Tradition of Ministerial Responsibility and Its Role in the Bureaucratic Management of Crises
This article explores the relationship between the United Kingdom's doctrine of ministerial responsibility and bureaucratic efforts to control four contemporary crises. Evidence emerges from a series of interviews with experienced crisis managers, which draws attention to the way in which this convention: (1) tacitly conditioned the thinking and behaviour of bureaucratic crisis actors through their sensitivity to political risk; and (2) was reint…
More micro than meta? Competing concepts of metagovernance in the European Union
Interactive and state-centric relational governance scholars disagree about the concept of metagovernance. Contestation relates to who can metagovern, the processes that can steer policy networks and the extent of autonomy held by non-state actors. This article uses data generated from interviews with policy officials and document analysis to examine the validity of these competing claims in relation to a European crisis management network. The f…
Bureaucratic Values and Resilience: An Exploration of Crisis Management Adaptation
The concept of resilience has gained currency as a motif under which governments have sought to improve their responses to crises. At the heart of this agenda is an understanding that crisis management must be adaptable. Yet crises continue to expose the intransigent nature of central bureaucracies. This article addresses this issue by exploring how bureaucratic values can affect the ability of agents to adapt to the challenges of crises. Data ar…
Citizen participation, community resilience and crisis-management policy
This article presents two arguments. The first relates to the relevance of citizen participation vis-à-vis the design and implementation of public policy. More specifically, the article empirically demonstrates how a model of community decentralisation can have a number of practical benefits for crisis-management policy. The second argument relates to a question that has come to characterise studies of citizen participation in public policy. Why …
Rating the debates: The 2010 UK party leaders’ debates and political communication in the deliberative system
Community resilience and crisis management: Policy Lessons From the Ground
Community resilience is a central concept within crisis management policymaking, but it has escaped critical analysis. This article responds to this problem by examining a community-led response to a large natural disaster (the Queensland floods of 2010–11). The findings emerge from the application of a novel ethnographic method, uniquely informed by an insider’s view of the disaster, which generated narratives from ‘the ground’. These narratives…
Public Inquiries, Policy Learning, and the Threat of Future Crises
This book is animated by a simple but very important question. Can post-crisis inquiries deliver effective lesson-learning which will reduce our vulnerability to future threats? Conventional wisdom suggests that the answer to this question should be an emphatic no. Inquiries are regularly vilified as costly wastes of time that illuminate very little and change even less. This book, however, draws upon evidence from an international comparison of …
Connecting social and environmental policy in Australia: Collateral gains or collateral damage
Climate change research relating to “co‐benefits” suggests that the facilitation of social‐welfare outcomes through environmental policy offers a powerful means of incentivising climate change action. Concerns about social‐welfare, however, are often used to undermine climate change policies, typically through political claims that low‐to‐middle‐income households should not shoulder the costs of greater policy alignment between social and environ…
New institutionalism, critical junctures and post-crisis policy reform
Two accounts of change dominate with new institutional literature. The first emphasises 'punctuated equilibria' in which change is shock-driven, sudden and radical enough to loosen path dependencies. The second emphasises a more gradual-incrementalism and a view of change that is more or less constant. This article argues that neither account is suitable for the policy scholar interested in understanding the complexity of a post-crisis reform per…
Left on the shelf: Explaining the failure of public inquiry recommendations
Public inquiries remain the pre‐eminent mechanism for lesson‐learning after high‐profile failures. However, a regular complaint is that their recommendations get ‘shelved’. In political science, the most common explanation for this lack of implementation tells us that elites mobilize bias in order to undermine inquiry lesson‐learning. This article tests this thesis via an international comparison of inquiries in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and…
Policy learning and the public inquiry
Can public inquiries learn lessons in ways which can reduce the likelihood of future failure? Political science research has consistently stated that the answer to this question should be an emphatic no and defined the public inquiry as an ineffectual lesson-learning mechanism. This article, however, contends that this conventional wisdom needs to be revisited. Drawing upon policy learning research for its theory, and 100 interviews across four i…
Institutional amnesia and public policy
Institutional amnesia continues to be ignored by policy scholars despite the fact that it can undermine the effectiveness of public policy in various ways. In calling on policy scholars to start taking amnesia seriously as a research concern, this article provides data and analytical tools to help develop that agenda. The data are drawn from an international comparison of policy learning and amnesia in four Westminster systems (Australia, Canada,…
Explaining institutional amnesia in government
This article explains why different government agencies experience variations in organizational memory loss. It first explains institutional amnesia theoretically by expanding the formal‐institutional view of organizational memory to include agential and structural‐contextual properties, revealing a broader range of novel explanations for amnesia. Institutional amnesia is then explained empirically through an international analysis of memory loss…
Public inquiries as procedural policy tools
In this article we conceptualise the public inquiry as a procedural tool and address the question of what makes a public inquiry an effective policy instrument. The issue of control is central to our arguments. In our conceptual work, we use control as a means of introducing the concept of the ‘catalytic procedural tool’ to better capture the variance in autonomy, location and function that can be associated with different inquiries. In our evalu…
Dramaturgy and crisis management: A third act
Dramaturgical perspectives have been used successfully in the past by crisis management researchers. However, previous contributions have been limited because they have been actor‐centered, which has meant that they have tended to ignore the critical role that an audience can play in the drama of a crisis. This article therefore presents a “third act” in which dramaturgical perspectives are used to deliver an actor‐and‐audience centered analysis …
Understanding policy responses to Covid-19: The Stars Haven’t Fallen From the Sky for Scholars of Public Policy
Responses to COVID-19 across the globe are immensely varied and often perplexing. Policy levers, from mask wearing and social distancing to lockdowns and school closures, have been adopted and avoided with equal conviction by decisions makers who believe their measures are appropriate. In some contexts, the global pandemic has been treated with due seriousness by governments and political leaders while in others it has been downplayed to such an …
Policy inaction meets policy learning: Four moments of non-implementation
A return to the classics? The implementation of royal commissions in Australia
This article examines the extent to which twenty-first century, federal-level Royal Commissions in Australia have been implemented. The findings have been produced from a three-year project which has operationalised a two-stage methodology. Stage one tracked 444 Royal Commission recommendations across six cases to determine the proportion that was implemented or ‘shelved’ by the government. Stage two interviewed key stakeholders with an interest …
The traveller's guide to policy learning
This article claims that when it comes to policy learning success, the most important variables are those that influence how well a learned-lesson travels. Consequently, it offers a 'traveller's guide' to policy learning. The guide begins with the presentation of a new concept that we have labelled 'dynamic capacity' which aims to capture the ways in which learned lessons need to move across time and space and consolidate downwards into the insti…
Institutional Amnesia and Public Administration: Does History Repeat?
Existing research suggests that a lack of institutional memory causes history to repeat in problematic ways within public administration agencies. However, this claim has not been well supported by theory or data that illuminates the process and effects of history repeating. To remedy this, the nascent concept of institutional amnesia is presented here as a means of theorizing repetitions of public administrative history. A sequential explanatory…
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