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作者

James C. Murphy

来源

URBAN POLICY AND RESEARCH,Vol.38,Issue1,P.51-62

语言

英文

关键字

Road lobby,freight lobby,vested interests,transport politics,pressure politics,rent seeking,RACV

作者单位

Department of Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

摘要

Transport academics and activists alike frequently build up the “road lobby” to be a menacing force, secretly controlling transport policy across Australia. Just who makes up that lobby and how it affects policy is rarely explained with rigour. This article seeks to start the process of demystifying the road lobby. It identifies two approaches to defining it and, using various documentary sources, charts its channels of influence, as well as some limits to its power. It ends by setting down a challenge: for our discipline to ascribe such influence to the road lobby, we must seek stronger, more compelling evidence.摘要交通学者和活动家们经常把“道路游说团”建设成一股威胁性的力量，秘密控制着整个澳大利亚的交通政策. 仅仅是谁组成的游说团，以及它如何影响政策，很少有人用严谨的解释. 本文试图开始揭开道路大堂的神秘面纱. 它确定了两种定义它的方法，并使用各种文献来源，绘制了它的影响渠道图，以及它的权力的一些限制. 最后，我们提出了一个挑战：要让我们的纪律将这种影响归因于道路游说团体，我们必须寻求更有力、更有说服力的证据.KEYWORDS: Road lobby, freight lobby, vested interests, transport politics, pressure politics, rent seeking, RACVDisclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.