Richard Eccleston
Biographic Data
| ID | 4372935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Eccleston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Eccleston |
| SIGNATURE | ECCLESTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4094-1780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Airbnb and the Hidden Barriers to Effective Regulation: A Case Study of Short-Term Rentals in Tasmania
The ubiquitous and rapid growth of Airbnb is shifting urban and policy landscapes across the globe, creating urgent need for new and effective regulation. Few studies map and analyse the evolution of regulatory regimes over time in order to identify the barriers to effective longer-term regulation. This is a case study of how the Tasmanian state government has responded to the rapid growth of short-term rentals (STRs) over four years, in the face…
Tasmania July to December 2017
Ebb tide in blue: Recent sub-national elections in the Australian federation
This article analyses the extent and nature of nationalization of state and territory elections in Australia, both in terms of how similar state and territory voting patterns are to federal results, as well as ‘second-order’ effects that indicate how much dissatisfaction with the existing federal government spills over into state and territory elections. We include assessments of campaign issues and impacts in order to see how far voters hold bot…
Tasmania January to June 2017
With less than a year before the next state election due in March 2018, the Liberal governments confidence in maintaining its large majority diminished. Although not without missteps, the government continued to appear competent and the economy continued to improve. Yet the Labor partys renaissance was evident. Labor made a further gain in the Legislative Council, while importantly changing parliamentary leadership to a young rising star who was …
Tasmania July to December 2016
The results of the 2 July federal double dissolution election for Tasmania were adisaster for the Liberals, who were wiped out in the House of Representatives, and lostthe states only government minister in the Senate. Apparent disunity amongstcandidates, including the Senate ticket, contributed to the losses, as well as a perceivedfailure of the federal government to heed regional Tasmanian concerns. The Liberalstate government, though, continue…
Tasmania January to June 2016
Tasmania July to December 2015
Delivering Public Services: Locality, Learning and Reciprocity in Place Based Practice
Policymakers across myriad jurisdictions are grappling with the challenge of complex policy problems. Multi‐faceted, complex, and seemingly intractable, ‘wicked’ problems have exhausted the repertoire of the standard policy approaches. In response, governments are increasingly looking for new options, and one approach that has gained significant scholarly interest, along with increasing attention from practitioners, is ‘place‐based’ solutions. Th…
The Australian mining tax debate: Political Legacies and Comparative Perspectives
The political debate concerning the introduction of new nationalresource rent tax in Australia between 2010 and 2014 providessignificant insights into the Australian political system. Thiscollection of papers systematically examines the broader politicalconsequences of the mining tax debate including the power ofmining interests and the strategic errors made by the Rudd andGillard governments. These analyses highlight the institutionallimits of t…
Tasmania January to June 2015
Building evaluation capacity in micro community organisations—more burden than benefit
Building evaluation capacity in community organisations is promoted as a key means of creating an evaluation culture that will reorient organisations towards identifying and measuring outcomes, demonstrating achievements and enhancing accountability. Building evaluation capacity presents a number of challenges for micro-organisations, including limited resources for evaluation, a low existing evaluation skills base, and, an organisational culture…
Fixing Funding in the Australian Federation: Issues and Options for State Tax Reform
The structural pressures confronting the federal budget are well documented. Given the political risks associated with reducing the federal deficit by either increasing taxes or reining in expenditure at a national level, the Commonwealth has outlined its intention to freeze (in real terms) tied grants to the states from 2017. If implemented, this strategy will see Commonwealth transfers to the states decline from a peak of 29% of federal expendi…
From Calgary to Canberra: Resource Taxation and Fiscal Federalism in Canada and Australia
Intergovernmental conflict over the allocation of resource revenue in federal systems is not uncommon. However, there is remarkably little scholarship on how such political tensions are managed in different federations and whether, over time, resource politics can reshape federal dynamics. This article assesses these questions through a strategic comparison of resource federalism in Canada and Australia since the 1970s. We argue that the politica…
Pathologies in International Policy Transfer: The Case of the OECD Tax Transparency Initiative
The importance of international organizations to the development and diffusion of international policy norms is widely recognized but is increasingly tempered by an appreciation of the pathologies of policy transfer. Using a case study of the OECD’s campaign to promote transparency in global tax affairs, this paper identifies a new and relatively distinctive form of dysfunctional policy transfer. Specifically it argues that international organiza…
G20 Endorsement in Post Crisis Global Governance: More Than a Toothless Talking Shop
Research Highlights and Abstract This article Highlights how G20 ‘endorsement’ promotes and enhances the legitimacy of specialist technical agencies and organisations Provides a case study highlighting the impact of G20 endorsement on the OECD's international tax transparency agenda Develops a mid-level theory of G20 endorsement in order to analyse this emerging form of authority in global governance The G20 Leaders' Forum has been touted as ‘The…
The Tax Reform Agenda in Australia
This paper applies concepts developed in the Policy Agendas Project (PAP) literature to an analysis of Australian tax policy over the post war period. It argues that a major turning point in the Australian tax policy agenda occurred during the second term of the Hawke Government (1984‐87). Beyond this turning point, and despite the fierce partisan conflict concerning tax policy over the past two decades, there has been remarkaly little difference…
Beyond the Blame Game: Political Strategies for State Funding Reform
There is growing concern that intergovernmental financial relations in the Australian federation are becoming increasingly acrimonious and dysfunctional. This paper argues that it is necessary to analyse State funding as a whole, including the critical relationship between State‐level taxation and its reform and the broader Commonwealth Grants Commission regime, if we are to establish a system of State funding which is financially sustainable, pr…
Australia's Future Fund: A future beyond the GFC
Australia's Future Fund (FF) was created in 2006 as a long-term savings fund designed to meet the Australian Government's future public service pension liabilities. With the onset of the financial crisis, few commentators thought the Australian Government would have the capacity or interest to continue investing in the FF. However, in the context of Australia's rapid, commodity-driven recovery from the crisis there is a growing case that the FF s…
The Henry Tax Review, Cartel Parties and the Reform Capacity of the Australian State
The Henry Tax Review is a work in progress, but it has already advanced sufficiently to constitute an important case study of state capacity in Australia. Using the Henry Tax Review as a case study, this paper sheds light on the question of whether the national political system is capable of devising and implementing long-term reforms. Whilst specific policy failures inevitably have a contingent dimension in the form of poor strategy and leadersh…
The OECD and global economic governance
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has enjoyed a high profile in world affairs for almost 50 years with its origins dating back to the original Bretton Woods club of institutions. Despite this reputation as one of the worlds most pre-eminent think tanks, policy forums and sources of comparative economic and other policy data, the governance capacity and influence of the OECD remains somewhat ambiguous and contested,…
In Government We Trust: Market Failure and the Delusions of Privatisation by Warwick Funnell, Robert Jupe and Jane Andrew
Howard's Fourth Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2004‐2007 edited by Chris Aulich and Roger Wettenhall
The Howard Government, Capital Taxation and the Limits of Redistribution
Whilst often being overshadowed by debate surrounding personal income and consumption taxes, the Howard government has also devoted significant resources to reviewing and reforming business and capital taxation. This paper provides an overview of the Ralph Review of Business Taxation and the Howard governments mixed record when it came to the implementation of the Ralph reforms. Having documented the subsequent changes in corporate income, capita…
Globalisation and the dilemmas of income taxation in Australia
Over the past two decades there has been a worldwide fall in statutory corporate tax (CT) rates. Focusing on Australia, this article establishes three empirical\nfacts which challenge much of the existing literature. First, CT competition was the crucial driving force behind CT cuts. Second, policy makers had to abandon tax-related investment incentives in order to pay for lower CT rates. This broadening of the CT base is costly, because it poten…
The Fiscal-Electoral Nexus in Australia, 1976-94
This article re-evaluates existing political business cycle theory in the specific context of the political economy of Australian fiscal policy since the mid-1970s. Whereas 'traditional' political business cycle models, formulated within a Keynesian framework, assume a high level of state autonomy over fiscal policy, this article argues that an environment of fiscal restraint has been imposed on Australian federal governments over the study perio…
Pathologies in International Policy Transfer: The Case of the OECD Tax Transparency Initiative
The importance of international organizations to the development and diffusion of international policy norms is widely recognized but is increasingly tempered by an appreciation of the pathologies of policy transfer. Using a case study of the OECD’s campaign to promote transparency in global tax affairs, this paper identifies a new and relatively distinctive form of dysfunctional policy transfer. Specifically it argues that international organiza…
G20 Endorsement in Post Crisis Global Governance: More Than a Toothless Talking Shop
Research Highlights and Abstract This article Highlights how G20 ‘endorsement’ promotes and enhances the legitimacy of specialist technical agencies and organisations Provides a case study highlighting the impact of G20 endorsement on the OECD's international tax transparency agenda Develops a mid-level theory of G20 endorsement in order to analyse this emerging form of authority in global governance The G20 Leaders' Forum has been touted as ‘The…
Globalisation and the dilemmas of income taxation in Australia
Over the past two decades there has been a worldwide fall in statutory corporate tax (CT) rates. Focusing on Australia, this article establishes three empirical\nfacts which challenge much of the existing literature. First, CT competition was the crucial driving force behind CT cuts. Second, policy makers had to abandon tax-related investment incentives in order to pay for lower CT rates. This broadening of the CT base is costly, because it poten…
From Calgary to Canberra: Resource Taxation and Fiscal Federalism in Canada and Australia
Intergovernmental conflict over the allocation of resource revenue in federal systems is not uncommon. However, there is remarkably little scholarship on how such political tensions are managed in different federations and whether, over time, resource politics can reshape federal dynamics. This article assesses these questions through a strategic comparison of resource federalism in Canada and Australia since the 1970s. We argue that the politica…
Delivering Public Services: Locality, Learning and Reciprocity in Place Based Practice
Policymakers across myriad jurisdictions are grappling with the challenge of complex policy problems. Multi‐faceted, complex, and seemingly intractable, ‘wicked’ problems have exhausted the repertoire of the standard policy approaches. In response, governments are increasingly looking for new options, and one approach that has gained significant scholarly interest, along with increasing attention from practitioners, is ‘place‐based’ solutions. Th…
Building evaluation capacity in micro community organisations—more burden than benefit
Building evaluation capacity in community organisations is promoted as a key means of creating an evaluation culture that will reorient organisations towards identifying and measuring outcomes, demonstrating achievements and enhancing accountability. Building evaluation capacity presents a number of challenges for micro-organisations, including limited resources for evaluation, a low existing evaluation skills base, and, an organisational culture…
The Henry Tax Review, Cartel Parties and the Reform Capacity of the Australian State
The Henry Tax Review is a work in progress, but it has already advanced sufficiently to constitute an important case study of state capacity in Australia. Using the Henry Tax Review as a case study, this paper sheds light on the question of whether the national political system is capable of devising and implementing long-term reforms. Whilst specific policy failures inevitably have a contingent dimension in the form of poor strategy and leadersh…
The OECD and global economic governance
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has enjoyed a high profile in world affairs for almost 50 years with its origins dating back to the original Bretton Woods club of institutions. Despite this reputation as one of the worlds most pre-eminent think tanks, policy forums and sources of comparative economic and other policy data, the governance capacity and influence of the OECD remains somewhat ambiguous and contested,…
Beyond the Blame Game: Political Strategies for State Funding Reform
There is growing concern that intergovernmental financial relations in the Australian federation are becoming increasingly acrimonious and dysfunctional. This paper argues that it is necessary to analyse State funding as a whole, including the critical relationship between State‐level taxation and its reform and the broader Commonwealth Grants Commission regime, if we are to establish a system of State funding which is financially sustainable, pr…
Ebb tide in blue: Recent sub-national elections in the Australian federation
This article analyses the extent and nature of nationalization of state and territory elections in Australia, both in terms of how similar state and territory voting patterns are to federal results, as well as ‘second-order’ effects that indicate how much dissatisfaction with the existing federal government spills over into state and territory elections. We include assessments of campaign issues and impacts in order to see how far voters hold bot…
The Australian mining tax debate: Political Legacies and Comparative Perspectives
The political debate concerning the introduction of new nationalresource rent tax in Australia between 2010 and 2014 providessignificant insights into the Australian political system. Thiscollection of papers systematically examines the broader politicalconsequences of the mining tax debate including the power ofmining interests and the strategic errors made by the Rudd andGillard governments. These analyses highlight the institutionallimits of t…
The Howard Government, Capital Taxation and the Limits of Redistribution
Whilst often being overshadowed by debate surrounding personal income and consumption taxes, the Howard government has also devoted significant resources to reviewing and reforming business and capital taxation. This paper provides an overview of the Ralph Review of Business Taxation and the Howard governments mixed record when it came to the implementation of the Ralph reforms. Having documented the subsequent changes in corporate income, capita…
The Tax Reform Agenda in Australia
This paper applies concepts developed in the Policy Agendas Project (PAP) literature to an analysis of Australian tax policy over the post war period. It argues that a major turning point in the Australian tax policy agenda occurred during the second term of the Hawke Government (1984‐87). Beyond this turning point, and despite the fierce partisan conflict concerning tax policy over the past two decades, there has been remarkaly little difference…
The Fiscal-Electoral Nexus in Australia, 1976-94
This article re-evaluates existing political business cycle theory in the specific context of the political economy of Australian fiscal policy since the mid-1970s. Whereas 'traditional' political business cycle models, formulated within a Keynesian framework, assume a high level of state autonomy over fiscal policy, this article argues that an environment of fiscal restraint has been imposed on Australian federal governments over the study perio…
Globalisation and the dilemmas of income taxation in Australia
Over the past two decades there has been a worldwide fall in statutory corporate tax (CT) rates. Focusing on Australia, this article establishes three empirical\nfacts which challenge much of the existing literature. First, CT competition was the crucial driving force behind CT cuts. Second, policy makers had to abandon tax-related investment incentives in order to pay for lower CT rates. This broadening of the CT base is costly, because it poten…
The Howard Government, Capital Taxation and the Limits of Redistribution
Whilst often being overshadowed by debate surrounding personal income and consumption taxes, the Howard government has also devoted significant resources to reviewing and reforming business and capital taxation. This paper provides an overview of the Ralph Review of Business Taxation and the Howard governments mixed record when it came to the implementation of the Ralph reforms. Having documented the subsequent changes in corporate income, capita…
In Government We Trust: Market Failure and the Delusions of Privatisation by Warwick Funnell, Robert Jupe and Jane Andrew
Howard's Fourth Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2004‐2007 edited by Chris Aulich and Roger Wettenhall
The Henry Tax Review, Cartel Parties and the Reform Capacity of the Australian State
The Henry Tax Review is a work in progress, but it has already advanced sufficiently to constitute an important case study of state capacity in Australia. Using the Henry Tax Review as a case study, this paper sheds light on the question of whether the national political system is capable of devising and implementing long-term reforms. Whilst specific policy failures inevitably have a contingent dimension in the form of poor strategy and leadersh…
The OECD and global economic governance
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has enjoyed a high profile in world affairs for almost 50 years with its origins dating back to the original Bretton Woods club of institutions. Despite this reputation as one of the worlds most pre-eminent think tanks, policy forums and sources of comparative economic and other policy data, the governance capacity and influence of the OECD remains somewhat ambiguous and contested,…
Australia's Future Fund: A future beyond the GFC
Australia's Future Fund (FF) was created in 2006 as a long-term savings fund designed to meet the Australian Government's future public service pension liabilities. With the onset of the financial crisis, few commentators thought the Australian Government would have the capacity or interest to continue investing in the FF. However, in the context of Australia's rapid, commodity-driven recovery from the crisis there is a growing case that the FF s…
Pathologies in International Policy Transfer: The Case of the OECD Tax Transparency Initiative
The importance of international organizations to the development and diffusion of international policy norms is widely recognized but is increasingly tempered by an appreciation of the pathologies of policy transfer. Using a case study of the OECD’s campaign to promote transparency in global tax affairs, this paper identifies a new and relatively distinctive form of dysfunctional policy transfer. Specifically it argues that international organiza…
G20 Endorsement in Post Crisis Global Governance: More Than a Toothless Talking Shop
Research Highlights and Abstract This article Highlights how G20 ‘endorsement’ promotes and enhances the legitimacy of specialist technical agencies and organisations Provides a case study highlighting the impact of G20 endorsement on the OECD's international tax transparency agenda Develops a mid-level theory of G20 endorsement in order to analyse this emerging form of authority in global governance The G20 Leaders' Forum has been touted as ‘The…
The Tax Reform Agenda in Australia
This paper applies concepts developed in the Policy Agendas Project (PAP) literature to an analysis of Australian tax policy over the post war period. It argues that a major turning point in the Australian tax policy agenda occurred during the second term of the Hawke Government (1984‐87). Beyond this turning point, and despite the fierce partisan conflict concerning tax policy over the past two decades, there has been remarkaly little difference…
Beyond the Blame Game: Political Strategies for State Funding Reform
There is growing concern that intergovernmental financial relations in the Australian federation are becoming increasingly acrimonious and dysfunctional. This paper argues that it is necessary to analyse State funding as a whole, including the critical relationship between State‐level taxation and its reform and the broader Commonwealth Grants Commission regime, if we are to establish a system of State funding which is financially sustainable, pr…
Tasmania January to June 2015
Building evaluation capacity in micro community organisations—more burden than benefit
Building evaluation capacity in community organisations is promoted as a key means of creating an evaluation culture that will reorient organisations towards identifying and measuring outcomes, demonstrating achievements and enhancing accountability. Building evaluation capacity presents a number of challenges for micro-organisations, including limited resources for evaluation, a low existing evaluation skills base, and, an organisational culture…
Fixing Funding in the Australian Federation: Issues and Options for State Tax Reform
The structural pressures confronting the federal budget are well documented. Given the political risks associated with reducing the federal deficit by either increasing taxes or reining in expenditure at a national level, the Commonwealth has outlined its intention to freeze (in real terms) tied grants to the states from 2017. If implemented, this strategy will see Commonwealth transfers to the states decline from a peak of 29% of federal expendi…
From Calgary to Canberra: Resource Taxation and Fiscal Federalism in Canada and Australia
Intergovernmental conflict over the allocation of resource revenue in federal systems is not uncommon. However, there is remarkably little scholarship on how such political tensions are managed in different federations and whether, over time, resource politics can reshape federal dynamics. This article assesses these questions through a strategic comparison of resource federalism in Canada and Australia since the 1970s. We argue that the politica…
Tasmania January to June 2016
Tasmania July to December 2015
Delivering Public Services: Locality, Learning and Reciprocity in Place Based Practice
Policymakers across myriad jurisdictions are grappling with the challenge of complex policy problems. Multi‐faceted, complex, and seemingly intractable, ‘wicked’ problems have exhausted the repertoire of the standard policy approaches. In response, governments are increasingly looking for new options, and one approach that has gained significant scholarly interest, along with increasing attention from practitioners, is ‘place‐based’ solutions. Th…
The Australian mining tax debate: Political Legacies and Comparative Perspectives
The political debate concerning the introduction of new nationalresource rent tax in Australia between 2010 and 2014 providessignificant insights into the Australian political system. Thiscollection of papers systematically examines the broader politicalconsequences of the mining tax debate including the power ofmining interests and the strategic errors made by the Rudd andGillard governments. These analyses highlight the institutionallimits of t…
Tasmania January to June 2017
With less than a year before the next state election due in March 2018, the Liberal governments confidence in maintaining its large majority diminished. Although not without missteps, the government continued to appear competent and the economy continued to improve. Yet the Labor partys renaissance was evident. Labor made a further gain in the Legislative Council, while importantly changing parliamentary leadership to a young rising star who was …
Tasmania July to December 2016
The results of the 2 July federal double dissolution election for Tasmania were adisaster for the Liberals, who were wiped out in the House of Representatives, and lostthe states only government minister in the Senate. Apparent disunity amongstcandidates, including the Senate ticket, contributed to the losses, as well as a perceivedfailure of the federal government to heed regional Tasmanian concerns. The Liberalstate government, though, continue…
Tasmania July to December 2017
Ebb tide in blue: Recent sub-national elections in the Australian federation
This article analyses the extent and nature of nationalization of state and territory elections in Australia, both in terms of how similar state and territory voting patterns are to federal results, as well as ‘second-order’ effects that indicate how much dissatisfaction with the existing federal government spills over into state and territory elections. We include assessments of campaign issues and impacts in order to see how far voters hold bot…
Airbnb and the Hidden Barriers to Effective Regulation: A Case Study of Short-Term Rentals in Tasmania
The ubiquitous and rapid growth of Airbnb is shifting urban and policy landscapes across the globe, creating urgent need for new and effective regulation. Few studies map and analyse the evolution of regulatory regimes over time in order to identify the barriers to effective longer-term regulation. This is a case study of how the Tasmanian state government has responded to the rapid growth of short-term rentals (STRs) over four years, in the face…
Political science (25 works) · Law (19 works) · Politics (18 works) · Economics (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (10 works) · Public Administration (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works)