Federalism, multilevel governance and Australia
Author/editor:Doug Brown
Year published:2011
To study Australian politics is, for many, to study the national government: its institutions, its parties, leaders, elections, and policy outcomes. For others, the focus is on Australia in the world, not just because globalization brings that world ever closer, but also because foreign policy is…
Fixing the economy, destroying the polity: Australia since 1983
Author/editor:Ian Marsh
Year published:2011
Many economic changes were effected in Australia after the election of the Hawke-Keating government in 1983. Both Labor and the Coalition thereafter supported a wide ranging program of economic reform. In this short paper I will argue that, without deliberate intent, this shared project has…
Global Political Economy
Author/editor:John Ravenhill
Year published:2011
Featuring carefully edited contributions from an impressive line-up of international scholars, Global Political Economy, Third Edition, is an authoritative introduction that combines coverage of history and theoretical approaches with contemporary issues and debates. The expert contributors offer…
Gregory Melleuish - Conceptions of the Sacred in Australian Political Thought
Author/editor:Gregory Melleuish
Year published:2011
'Conventional wisdom has it that Australia can only be understood in secular terms. ‘Australia society is determinedly secular’ claimed Stephen Knight in a recent essay. Knight argued that European Australia does not possess a mythical landscape or a sense of the sacred. This denial of the sacred…
Middle Power Dreaming
Author/editor:James Cotton|John Ravenhill
Year published:2011
Examines Australia's major bilateral relationships and central questions in policy-making and execution, as well as emerging or developing issues: in this volume, these chapters cover relations with Africa and with India, and innovations in the management of policy-making.http://www.oup.com.au/…
Obama's twice in a lifetime speech and Tony Abbott's unwelcome welcome (Platform Papers)
Author/editor:Brendan McCaffrie
Year published:2011
...[Obama's visit] gave followers of politics a rare opportunity to observe the performances of three distinct leaders in three distinct roles. These leadership roles impart varying levels of authority and encourage leaders to act in different ways. Of these, the role of the opposition leader in…
Obituary of Peter Loveday (Professional News)
Author/editor:John Warhurst
Year published:2011
Peter Loveday, political scientist, historian and philosophy student, was distinguished not only by his own outstanding achievements as a political scientist but by the many high-achieving protégés whom he encouraged and mentored. His own research and publications covered the full range of…
Peter Beilharz - Australian Radical Scholarship in the Wake of Marxism
Author/editor:Peter Beilharz
Year published:2011
'What is the influence in Australia of Marxism today? At first sight the question would seem oxymoronic, likely to evoke that sardonic hilarity characteristic of East European jokes. ‘Marxism’ and ‘Australia’ seem to be mutually exclusive, opposed terms. And yet Marxism, and radical thinking, have…
Robert Jackson - Foreign Models and Aussie Rules: Executive-Legislative relations in Australia
Author/editor:Robert Jackson
Year published:2011
'...In the last twenty years Australian’s have compiled an extraordinary amount of factual information about the institutions and processes of the commonwealth and the states, including elections and parties. Of course, this explosion of new information is partially due to the fact that Australian…
The Australian Voter: 50 years of change
Author/editor:Ian McAllister
Year published:2011
THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY saw more changes in political attitudes and behaviour in Australia than at any other time since Federation. There have been major changes in the way that election campaigns are conducted, with an increasing reliance on the electronic media and a trend towards the…