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KMID : 1001320140410010143
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Social Welfare Policy
2014 Volume.41 No. 1 p.143 ~ p.176
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Policy Change from Adoption to Child-raising Regarding Ex-nuptial Child-care Arrangement in Australia: Analysis by Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF)
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Im Ae-Duck
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Abstract
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This article analyzed the process of advocacy coalition formation of policy actors and the policy change through Sabatier`s Advocacy Coalition Framework regarding ex-nuptial child-care arrangement in Australia. Through this study, it is verified that the policy change for the ex-nuptial childcare arrangement was influenced by the growth and expansion of advocacy coalition groups, which are more aggressive in using strategy and mobilizing other policy brokers including the social security minister or legislature and many leaders. Rapid policy change from adoption to child-raising was observed in the dynamic interaction of ruling party and advocacy coalition from Liberal-National Party Coalition (1949-1972) to Gough Whitlam (1972-1975) of the Australian Labor Party. The most significant variable affecting policy change was verified as the change of ruling party or ruling ideology as well as advocacy coalition formation such as adoption advocacy coalition and child-raising advocacy coalition called Council of Single Mothers and Children (CSMC). This article suggests many implications for social policy in Korea where the Korean Unmarried Mother Association is emerging as a grassroots movement with cross cultural Korean adoptees against legal and social discrimination and for social and policy change in Korea while adoption agencies are filing for violation of the constitution of the Korean Single Parents Support Law newly revised in 2011 that pre-announced adoption agencies cannot operate unmarried mother shelters and should be closed since July 2015. This article implies that Korean policy brokers should listen to all the policy actors involved with ex-nuptial child arrangement to aim at the reasonable policy-making based on longitudinal and cross sectional research, instead of the political decision.
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KEYWORD
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ACF, Ex-nuptial child, illegitimacy, adoption advocacy coalition, child-raising advocacy coalition, CSMC, policy broker
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