Ideology in Public Policy: An examination of aggressive paternalism and enculturation in Indigenous assistance programs
(2007) Ideology in Public Policy: An examination of aggressive paternalism and enculturation in Indigenous assistance programs . The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 2(2):pp. 421-430.
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Abstract
Although Australian Government officially rejected a paternal assimilation strategy as public policy in the late 1960s, its policy increasingly encourages Indigenous people to adopt 'mainstream' values and objectives. This paper examines contemporary Australian policy directions for their desire to promote conformity. By exploring recent policy responses to Indigenous affairs it considers the resistance that ideologically-imposed objectives foment in subject populations. The paper highlights the weakness of coercive approaches to public policy. The discussion concludes that imposed problem definitions and solutions will not satisfy the needs that liberal traditions uphold as the social agenda of western democratic Government. More importantly, they fail to address the needs and aspirations of Australia's Indigenous people in any meaningful way.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Status: | Published |
| Keywords: | Indigenous; Aboriginal; policy; social; planning; reconciliation; paternalism; colonialism; practical reconciliation; Australia; Australian; Ideology |
| Subjects: | 370000 Studies in Human Society > 370200 Social Work > 370203 Social Policy 360000 Policy and Political Science > 360200 Policy and Administration > 360201 Public Policy 360000 Policy and Political Science 370000 Studies in Human Society > 370100 Sociology > 370102 Social Policy and Planning |
| ID Code: | 13569 |
| Deposited By: | Thompson, Lester J |
| Deposited On: | 16 May 2008 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://iji.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.88/prod.193 |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2007 Lester J. Thompson and Richard Hil |
| Additional Information: | Permission to republish or reproduce should be sought from Common Ground. |