Public Interest Advocacy in Australian Policymaking

该项目旨在通过媒体评估公共利益倡导在提高民选政治精英的响应性方面的影响和效果。该项目预计将产生关于如何设定倡导和媒体议程的新知识，审查当选精英获取和摄取新闻媒体的方式，以及倡导团体获取新闻改变政治优先事项的条件。预计该项目将为公民和政策制定者提供一个证据基础，以评估公共利益倡导的有效性，并带来诸如加强澳大利亚代议制民主质量等好处，并为学者提供关于公共利益倡导在政策优先事项上的作用的新理论。

The project aims to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of public interest advocacy, via the media, in elevating the responsiveness of elected political elites. The project expects to generate new knowledge about how the advocacy and media agendas are set, examine the way elected elites access and ingest news media, and conditions under which advocacy groups access to news changes political priorities. It is expected that the project will provide an evidence base for citizens and policy makers to assess the effectiveness of public interest advocacy, and deliver benefits such as strengthening the quality of Australia’s representative democracy, and offer scholars new theories on the role of public interest advocacy on policy priorities.