Can there be good policy? Tracing the paths between policy intent, evidence and practical benefit in regional and remote Australia

通过跟踪主要的健康，住房和教育改革，目前正在进行跨区域和偏远的澳大利亚，这项研究产生了新的观点在土著社会事务的紧迫当代辩论：即，政府最好的位置来推动社会变革或确定政策的必要性;如果没有，有替代的方式来产生良好的政策？人类学的方法将被用来观察政府政策的工作。这项研究将探讨土著社会政策的意图和结果之间的差距背后的体制原因;政策中的失败周期是如何复制的;以及创建和实施政策参与的新道德的可能技术。

By tracking major health, housing and education reforms currently underway across regional and remote Australia, this research generates fresh perspectives on an urgent contemporary debate in Indigenous social affairs: namely, are governments best placed to drive social change or to determine policy imperatives; and if not, are there alternate ways to generate good policy? An anthropological approach will be used to observe government policy at work. The research will explore the institutional reasons behind the gap between intention and outcome in Indigenous social policy; how failure cycles in policy are replicated; and possible techniques for creating and implementing a new ethics of policy engagement.