This year, academics from the ANU School of Politics and International Relations have made a significant impact through an impressive array of publications, spanning thought-provoking articles and groundbreaking books. Explore a selection of recent works that reflect the richness and diversity of our research community below. 

For a complete list of publications, please visit our academics research pages or the School's profile in the Research Portal.

Articles

• Coalition as a Heuristic: Voters' Perceptions of Party Positions in Presidential Multiparty Systems by Andrea Junqueira (Arkansas State University), Thiago N. Silva (ANU) and Guy Whitten (Texas A&M University).
• Consenting to Centralization? Comparing the Subnational Delegation and Abdication of Fiscal Authority in Argentina and Australia, by Tracy Fenwick (ANU) and Jorge Gordin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
• Constituency representation as crisis leadership: Understanding the potential of policy, service, and symbolic connection-building in response to disasters by Pandanus Petter (ANU).
• Democratic backsliding damages favorable US image among the global public, by Ben Goldsmith (ANU), Kelly Matush (Florida State University), Yusaku Horiuchi and Kathleen Powers (Dartmouth College, USA).
• Electoral context matters: why undecided voters in elections and referendums are different, by Sarah Cameron (Griffith University), and Ian McAllister (ANU).
• Fairness and Belonging: Public Attitudes Towards Migration and Symbolic Boundaries, by Pandanus Petter (ANU) and Juliet Pietsch and Cosmo Howard (Griffith University).
• Grassroots Fiscal Centralisation: Subnational Delegation of Revenue Authority in Argentina, by Tracy Fenwick (ANU) and Jorge Gordin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
• Is there a ‘Youthquake’? The Structure of Party Competition and Age Differences in Voting, by Ruth Dassonneville (Voting and Democracy Research Group at KU Leuven) and Ian McAllister (ANU).
• The Direction and Meaning of Left-Right in Postcommunist Societies, by Ruth Dassonneville (Voting and Democracy Research Group at KU Leuven) and Ian McAllister (ANU).
• The End of US Democracy and the Implications for International Relations by Ben Goldsmith (ANU).
• The personality of a personality cult? Personality characteristics of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters by Ben Goldsmith (ANU) and Lars J. K. Moen (University of Vienna).

Books or chapters

• Fiscal Equalisation, Intergovernmental Transfers and Territorial Inequalities in Federations, (Brill Press, Leidan, 2025): Chapter 4 : From Full to Partial Equalisation: The Case of Horizontal Fiscal Equalisation in Australia - Tracy Fenwick (ANU), and Miranda Stewart (University of Melbourne).
• Learning to Govern Together in Representative Democracy: The Dynamics of Cooperation and Competition in Coalition Governance (Oxford University Press, 2025) - Thomas König (University of Mannheim), Xiao Lu (Peking University), Thiago N. Silva (ANU).
• Voter's Perceptions of Party Brands (Cambridge University Press, 2025) - David Fortunato (UCSD), Thiago N. Silva (ANU)  and Laron K. Williams (University of Missouri).