Continental Philosophy: An Introduction
Author/editor:David West
Year published:2010
This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to philosophy in the continental tradition. It is a wide-ranging and reliable guide to the work of such major figures as Nietzsche, Habermas, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida and ＼i＼ek. At the same time, it situates their…
Dimensions of Australian Society
Author/editor:Juliet Pietsch|Brian Graetz|Ian McAllister
Year published:2010
First published in 1988, Dimensions of Australian Society has become a benchmark for empirical investigations of Australian society. Its distinct approach lies in combining the latest theoretical and conceptual insights with thorough investigations and analyses of available research evidence. Key…
Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance
Author/editor:John Dryzek
Year published:2010
Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance reaches from conceptual underpinnings to the key challenges faced in applications to ever-increasing ranges of problems and issues. Following a survey of the life and times of deliberative democracy, the turns it has taken, and the logic of…
How Power Changes Hands
Author/editor:Paul T. Hart|John Uhr
Year published:2010
How can we strengthen the capacity of governments and parties to manage arrivals and departures at the top? Democracy requires reliable processes for the transfer of power from one generation of leaders to the next. This book introduces new analytical frameworks and presents the latest empirical…
Labor's Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class
Author/editor:Richard Kuhn|Tom Bramble
Year published:2010
Once widely regarded as the workers greatest hope for a better world, the ALP today would rather project itself as a responsible manager of Australian capitalism. Labor's Conflict provides an insightful account of the transformations in the Party's policies, performance and structures since its…
Policy in Action: the Challenges of Service Delivery
Author/editor:John Wanna|John Butcher|Ben Freyens
Year published:2010
Modern governments have undergone significant change over the past 30 years. Such change has impacted on the way governments structure their organisations, deliver services and relate to their citizenry. But how has public policy formulation changed and affected the design and delivery of…
Political Parties and Democratic Linkage - How Parties Organize Democracy
Author/editor:Russell J. Dalton|David M. Farrell|Ian McAllister
Year published:2010
2011. Oxford University Press. Is the party over? Parties are the central institutions of representative democracy, but critics increasingly claim that parties are failing to perform their democratic functions. This book assembles unprecedented cross-national evidence to assess how parties link…
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
Author/editor:Francis G Castles|Stephan Leibfried|Jane Lewis|Herbert Obinger|Christopher Pierson
Year published:2010
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the…
The Reality of Budgetary Reform in OECD Nations: Trajectories and Consequences
Author/editor:John Wanna|Jensen Lotte|Jouke de Vries
Year published:2010
The Reality of Budgetary Reform in OECD Nations investigates the impacts and consequences of budgetary reform through a comparative assessment of advanced Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) democracies that have undertaken budget reforms over the past two to three…
Australia: the state of democracy
Author/editor:Marion Sawer|Norman Abjorensen|Phil Larkin
Year published:2009
For those studying democracy or wanting to reform Australian politics, The State of Democracy provides a wealth of evidence in a well-illustrated and highly accessible format. Internationally, it is an important contribution to the democracy assessment literature and pushes into new areas such as…