The night - time economy in Sydney, Australia: policies and actors pre, during and post the Covid - 19 pandemic

This study investigates the night-time economy (NTE) in Sydney, Australia. In this thesis, I examine the NTE in Sydney before, during and post the Covid-19 pandemic. Here the perspectives and experiences of key actors were relevant to understand how multiple actors attempted to shape policies, sometimes successfully sometimes not, by disrupting the status quo of existing governance arrangements. I also looked at the impact of Covid-19 on the NTE and how night entrepreneurs responded to it. This study draws upon an interdisciplinary analytical framework to investigate the Sydney’s NTE. The advocacy coalition framework was used to map out the policy actors and their beliefs. Policy entrepreneurship framework was used to investigate the actors’ strategies adopted to shape policy change. As the NTE in Sydney was highly contested, I draw upon conflicting rationalities to analyse the contestations around the NTE and its policies. The blame games framework was relevant to highlight the actor’s dynamic of interaction. Finally, I applied antifragility as a framework to analyse the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the NTE and the response of night businesses to it.

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• Cibin, Alessia

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• © 2024 Alessia Cibin
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en_US

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http://hdl.handle.net/10453/187475

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oai:opus.lib.uts.edu.au:10453/187475