The organised interest system in Australian public policy: Size, focus, impact and transformation

试图影响公共政策制定的有组织的利益体系正在经历快速转型。一些研究人员专注于战后辩护的专业化；另一些人则认为，互联网正积极(重新)塑造这类系统的结构及其民主能力。这个项目通过探索澳大利亚有组织的利益体系的规模和组成，对这类账户做出裁决。它使用创新的方法，评估立法、行政、印刷媒体和“在线”领域的特殊利益的存在和突出程度。通过一个具有理论原创性的国家案例研究，它将为这一重要领域的国际学术研究做出贡献。

Organised interest systems that seek to influence public policy-making are undergoing rapid transformation. Some researchers focus on the post-war professionalisation of advocacy; others suggest that the internet is positively (re)shaping the structure of such systems and their democratic capacities. This project adjudicates on such accounts through exploring the size and composition, through time, of the Australian system of organised interests. Using innovative methodologies, it assesses the presence and prominence of particular interests in legislative, administrative, print-media and ‘on-line’ arenas. Through a theoretically original, national case study, it will contribute to international scholarship in this important area.