Confronting the devolution paradox: constitutional values, federal political culture and governance reform

直面权力下放悖论：宪法价值观、联邦政治文化与治理改革

• 批准号: DP140102682
• 负责人: Prof Alexander Brown
• 金额: $ 48.6万
• 依托单位: Griffith University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2018-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP140102682
• 关键词: Confronting; devolution; paradox; constitutional; values

Australia, like many countries, depends in part on devolutionary reform if its federal system of government is to adapt effectively to change. This project confronts a key barrier to reform; the ‘devolution paradox’, in which popular demands for decentralisation and diversity are confounded by conflicting political pressures for national policy uniformity and control. By mapping and comparing the constitutional values and federal political culture of Australian citizens, citizens in Canada, USA and UK, and Australian reform policymakers, in more detail than ever before, it will give insights into how this key paradox might be resolved, helping unlock reform potential and restore adaptive capacity to our political system.

澳大利亚和许多国家一样，如果其联邦政府体系要有效地适应变化，部分取决于权力下放改革。该项目面临着改革的一个关键障碍：“权力下放悖论”，即民众对权力下放和多样性的要求与要求国家政策统一和控制的相互冲突的政治压力相混淆。通过对澳大利亚公民、加拿大、美国和英国公民以及澳大利亚改革政策制定者的宪法价值观和联邦政治文化进行比以往任何时候都更详细的映射和比较，它将深入了解如何解决这一关键悖论，帮助释放改革潜力，恢复我们政治体系的适应能力。