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Policy Change and Industry Associability: The Australian Mining Sector
Author(s) -
Kellow Aynsley,
Simms Marian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8500.12008
Subject(s) - commonwealth , government (linguistics) , business , public administration , public economics , economics , political science , law , philosophy , linguistics
In this paper we use evidence from the recent trajectories of mining industry associations in the Australian federation to argue for the significance of institutional explanations for the formation and maintenance of interest groups. We argue that the recent lack of consultation by the Commonwealth government with the Minerals Council of Australia over resources rent taxation proposals reflected a weakness that resulted from the shifting basis of associability stemming from institutional changes .