Under the right conditions, compounding socio‐political and economic change can dramatically alter government policy. From 2000, Western Australia, a resource‐rich jurisdiction, experienced significant change owing to a once‐in‐a‐generation resources boom, which forced a break with earlier development approaches. In 2008, regional interventionism returned to the State via the State Government's Royalties for Regions program. Departing from the neo‐liberal tradition, the program allocated 25 per cent of the State's royalty income to non‐metropolitan regions, over and above existing regional allocations, and its success remains disputed. While it is easy to question the program retrospectively, the socio‐economic and political circumstances from 2000 to 2008 reveal a “perfect storm” of conditions enabling the transition from neo‐liberalism to interventionism in regional development. This paper sets out to understand the multi‐faceted conditions that enabled the dramatic paradigm shift embodied by the program. To this end, it examines the State's rural–urban settlement dichotomy, its staples economy, and the policy context leading up to the program. Following that, the paper proposes a causal framework mapping out the factors driving and rationalising the program. These factors are then examined in detail and include perceived rural voter disenchantment, ineffectual regional development policy, the State's mining boom, inadequate regional development funding, the contrasting fortunes of two regions (illustrative of the impact of growth, and the lack thereof), and the political manoeuvring during the 2008 election. Finally, the paper concludes by considering how the conversion of these conditions resulted in the State's most significant regional policy redirection in decades.

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西澳大利亚州的区域特许权使用费计划：对增长，区域忽视和丧失权力的政策回应

在适当的条件下，加剧社会政治和经济变化会大大改变政府的政策。从2000年开始，资源丰富的辖区西澳大利亚州经历了一次重大的变革，原因是一代又一代的资源热潮迫使早期的开发方法中断了。2008年，区域干预主义通过州政府的地区特许权使用费重返州程序。与新自由主义传统不同的是，该计划除现有区域拨款之外，将国家版税收入的25％分配给了非大都市地区，其成功仍存争议。回顾该计划很容易，但从2000年到2008年的社会经济和政治形势揭示了条件的“完美风暴”，使区域发展从新自由主义过渡到干预主义。本文着手了解使程序体现出巨大的范式转变的多方面条件。为此，它研究了该州的城乡居民二分法，其主食经济以及导致该计划的政策背景。跟随那个，本文提出了一个因果框架，描绘了驱动程序合理化的因素。然后详细研究了这些因素，包括人们对农村选民的失望，无效的区域发展政策，国家的矿业繁荣，区域发展资金不足，两个区域的命运截然相反（说明了增长的影响以及缺乏增长），以及2008年大选期间的政治动向。最后，本文以考虑这些条件的转变如何导致该州数十年来最重要的区域政策调整为结论。两个地区的命运截然相反（说明增长的影响及其缺乏），以及2008年大选期间的政治动向。最后，本文以考虑这些条件的转变如何导致该州数十年来最重要的区域政策调整为结论。两个地区的命运截然相反（说明增长的影响及其缺乏），以及2008年大选期间的政治动向。最后，本文以考虑这些条件的转变如何导致该州数十年来最重要的区域政策调整为结论。