The Centralization of Australian Federalism 1901–2010

Measurement and Interpretation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6375950
AutoresAlan Fenna (0000-0002-3692-7954, Curtin University)
Año2019
Volumen49
Número1
Páginas30-56
Fecha de publicación2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPublius The Journal of Federalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0048-5950 • E-ISSN: 1747-7107
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/publius/pjy042
OpenAlexW2906360819
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas41

As part of a larger comparative project, “Dynamic De/Centralization in Federations,” this article studies the dynamics of Australian federalism since 1901. A constitution drafted in the 1890s left the majority of domestic governance responsibilities to the States. Within two decades, though, a process, continuing to this day, was underway whereby the financial power and the policy reach of the Commonwealth expanded in an apparently inexorable and irreversible fashion. This article charts those developments across both a broad sweep of policy domains and in respect of changing fiscal relations for the Australian case and attempts to provide a more systematic assessment of the extent, degree, and timing of change since Federation than previously attempted. It then relates the main patterns of change, over time and across policy domains, to the apparent mechanisms and, in turn, to a range of hypothesized causes

Commonwealth · Constitution · Corporate governance · Decentralization · Economics · Federalism · fiscal federalism · Historical institutionalism · Interpretation (philosophy · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Australian History and Society · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Political Systems and Governance · Law · Public Administration