ABSTRACT

This paper explores the influence of political traditions on policymaking at the interface of national and transnational governance. It uncovers various dimensions of influence on boundary-setting through policy change, derived from a case study examining how Australia reconceptualised longstanding freedom of residential movement and equal treatment for citizens across the Tasman. These policymaking activities spanned boundaries across policy subsystems at the interface of both domestic and transnational arenas, in response to perceived dilemmas. This paper focuses on the enabling role of neoliberal ideations to effect an agenda driven by more covert motives. In context of bilateral economic integration, conflicting traditions created a dilemma for Australia, which sought to maintain the advantages of the free labour-market whilst minimizing the problem of granting access to social security and citizenship to those perceived to be unsuitable. I find that Australia, in resolving this dilemma, allowed neoliberal conceptions of labour as a commodity, thereby enabling traditions of exclusion and border control, to override longstanding trans-Tasman traditions.

摘要

本文探讨了政治传统对国家和跨国治理界面上政策制定的影响。它揭示了通过政策变化对边界设置的影响的各个方面，该研究源自一项案例研究，该研究研究了澳大利亚如何重新定义长期的居住自由和塔斯曼州公民的平等待遇。这些决策活动跨越了国内和跨国领域交界处的政策子系统的边界，以应对感知到的困境。本文侧重于新自由主义思想对实现由更隐蔽动机驱动的议程的有利作用。在双边经济一体化的背景下，相互冲突的传统给澳大利亚带来了两难境地，它试图保持自由劳动力市场的优势，同时尽量减少向被认为不适合的人提供社会保障和公民身份的问题。我发现澳大利亚在解决这一困境时允许新自由主义将劳动力视为商品的概念，从而使排斥和边境控制的传统能够凌驾于长期存在的跨塔斯曼传统之上。