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NSW Workers’ Compensation Reform: A Parody of Evidence‐based Policy Making
Author(s) -
Holley Sasha,
Thornthwaite Louise,
Markey Ray,
O'Neill Sharron
Publication year - 2015
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 - 10.1111/1467-8500.12125
Subject(s) - transparency (behavior) , legislature , statutory law , accountability , politics , public administration , compensation (psychology) , evidence based policy , policy making , political science , policy analysis , legislation , public economics , economics , law , medicine , psychology , alternative medicine , pathology , psychoanalysis
The characteristics and evolution of evidence‐based policy making in Australia and other mature democracies have been mapped extensively in this journal. This article advances research on the use of evidence in policy making, examining changes in the New South Wales workers’ compensation system from 2012 to 2014. This analysis of two phases of policy change, legislative implementation and statutory review, highlights the limitations of building integrated, coherent evidence‐based policy in a contentious policy area. The article finds that the collection of wide and detailed evidence will not satisfy requirements of evidence‐based policy without political will, transparency, and accountability.