Building the Education Revolution: Another Case of Australian Government Failure?

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 299-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Lewis ◽  
Brian Dollery ◽  
Michael A. Kortt
Keyword(s):  
Australian Government ◽  
Government Failure

Australian Government failure and the VET FEE-HELP loan programme

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 271-281
Author(s):  
Caillan John Fellows ◽  
Brian Dollery
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Government Failure ◽  
Policy Success ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Training Quality ◽  
And Training ◽  
Shed Light

PurposeIn an effort to boost participation in vocational education and training (VET), in 2009, the Australian Government launched its VET FEE-HELP income-contingent loan programme for VET students. The programme was terminated in 2016 following numerous failed attempts to arrest its escalating costs and improve its performance. In an effort to shed light on the failure of the VET FEE-HELP programme, in this paper, the authors offer estimates of the aggregate costs involved and the quantum of graduates.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the authors examined the VET FEE-HELP programme through the analytical lens offered by Marsh and McConnell’s (2010) framework, which offered a broad, “big-picture” view covering three dimensions of policy success or failure.FindingsBy identifying the causes of the failure, the authors concluded that the features of the scheme designed to improve accessibility of VET also allowed for exploitative behaviour on the part of VET providers, causing deterioration in training quality and leading to a substantial amount of wasteful public expenditure.Originality/valueThe authors seek to illuminate the demise of the hitherto neglected programme to contribute towards the literature on Australian Government failure.

Concatenation of Circumstances or Historical Regularity?

2009 ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
V. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Transition Economies ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Shock Therapy ◽  
Economic Liberalization ◽  
Institutional Capacity ◽  
Government Failure ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Optimal Policies ◽  
Cis Countries

Why have many transition economies succeeded by pursuing policies which are so different from the radical economic liberalization (shock therapy) that is normally credited for the economic success of countries of Central Europe? First, optimal policies are context dependent, they are specific for each stage of development and what worked in Slovenia cannot be expected to work in Mongolia. Second, even for the countries with the same level of development reforms that are necessary to stimulate growth are different; they depend on the previous history and on the path chosen. The reduction of government expenditure as a share of GDP did not undermine significantly the institutional capacity of the state in China, but in Russia and other CIS countries it turned out to be ruinous. The art of the policymaker is to create markets without causing government failure, as happened in many CIS countries.

Implications

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Widerquist ◽  
Grant S. McCall
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Natural Property ◽  
Government Failure ◽  
State Of Nature ◽  
Best Response ◽  
Lockean Proviso ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Taking Action ◽  
Disadvantaged People

Earlier chapters of this book found that the Hobbesian hypothesis is false; the Lockean proviso is unfulfilled; contemporary states and property rights systems fail to meet the standard that social contract and natural property rights theories require for their justification. This chapter assesses the implications of those findings for the two theories. Section 1 argues that, whether contractarians accept or reject these findings, they need to clarify their argument to remove equivocation. Section 2 invites efforts to refute this book’s empirical findings. Section 3 discusses a response open only to property rights theorists: concede this book’s empirical findings and blame government failure. Section 4 considers the argument that this book misidentifies the state of nature. Section 5 considers a “bracketing strategy,” which admits that observed stateless societies fit the definition of the state of nature, but argues that they are not the relevant forms of statelessness today. Section 6 discusses the implications of accepting both the truth and relevance of the book’s findings, concluding that the best response is to fulfil the Lockean proviso by taking action to improve the lives of disadvantaged people.

Government Failure in the Farm Bill

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Farren ◽  
Gregory Fitton
Keyword(s):  
Farm Bill ◽  
Government Failure
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