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Does Federalism Matter? Evaluating State Architecture and Family and Domestic Violence Policy in Australia and New Zealand

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  • Louise Chappell
  • Jennifer Curtin

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Does federalism make a difference to policy making in the area of family and domestic violence (FDV)? This article explores this question through a comparison of Australia and New Zealand whose state architecture aside from federalism is very similar. It argues that Australian federalism has provided laboratories for innovative policy making and the continual articulation of a progressive policy response to FDV. By contrast, in New Zealand subnational experiments have occurred, but continuous progressive policy responses have been less evident because centralization accentuates the need for left-wing governments to substantively advance the issue. Copyright 2013, Oxford University Press.

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  • Louise Chappell & Jennifer Curtin, 2013. "Does Federalism Matter? Evaluating State Architecture and Family and Domestic Violence Policy in Australia and New Zealand," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 43(1), pages 24-43, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:43:y:2013:i:1:p:24-43
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    1. Reinhard Steurer & Christoph Clar & Juan Casado‐Asensio, 2020. "Climate change mitigation in Austria and Switzerland: The pitfalls of federalism in greening decentralized building policies," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 44(1), pages 89-108, February.

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