Public Interest Advocacy in Australian Policymaking

该项目旨在评价通过媒体宣传公共利益对提高当选政治精英的反应能力的影响和效力。该项目预计将产生新的知识，宣传和媒体议程是如何设置，检查当选精英访问和摄取新闻媒体的方式，以及宣传团体获得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评估公共利益倡导的有效性提供证据基础，并提供诸如加强澳大利亚代议制民主的质量等好处，并为学者提供关于公共利益倡导对政策优先事项的作用的新理论。

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.