Ideas, interests and institutions at play in the three policy cases
| PPL (economic and social policy) | TPP (trade policy) | NTER (social and welfare reform) | |
| Ideas (frames) | Neoliberalism, sexism, economic productivity, ‘the business case’, gender equality, maternal and child health, population growth | Neoliberalism, economic growth, investor rights, public interest, state sovereignty, access to medicines | Racism, social conservatism, whiteness, Aboriginal self-determination, land rights |
| Interests (actors and coalitions) | Women’s organisations, trade unions, public servants, politicians, academic experts, industry groups, socially conservative organisations, social justice groups, public health and women’s health organisations | Public servants, politicians, industry groups, civil society organisations, public health networks, academic experts | Public servants, politicians, Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, medical associations, civil society groups |
| Institutions (policy legacies, norms and rules) | Policy legacy: Australia’s ‘wage-earner’ welfare state Incentives and rules in the industrial relations policy settings Alternative incentives and rules in the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and Productivity Commission | Policy legacy: rules for consultation and engagement in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Policy legacy: norms for publicly funded healthcare in Medicare | Policy legacy: colonisation and history of dispossession of Aboriginal people |
NTER, Northern Territory Emergency Response; PPL, Paid Parental Leave; TPP, Trans Pacific Partnership.