Sports Grants and the Political Pork Barrel

An Investigation of Political Bias in the Administration of Australian Sports Grants

Bibliographic Data

ID6234595
AuthorsClive Gaunt (0000-0001-6399-3933, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume34
Issue1
Pages63-74
Publication date1999-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustralian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10361149950461
OpenAlexW2048888213
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited7

The Australian federal Labor government initiated and administered over a period of four years a Community Cultural, Recreational and Sporting Facilities Program, supposedly with priority funding to disadvantaged groups. This program has recently been the subject of considerable public controversy with allegations of maladministration and political bias. This paper examines the program for objective evidence of political bias and finds that priority funding appears to have gone to government-held marginal electorates rather than disadvantaged groups. While first acknowledging the normal scientific caveat that absolute proof is not possible, the results here are strongly suggestive of political bias in the allocation of funds and supportive of the pork-barrelling hypothesis

Administration (probate law · Disadvantaged · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Administration · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

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