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…
Critical Reflections on Australian Public Policy: selected essays
Author/editor:John Wanna
Year published:2009
This collection of 'critical reflections on Australian public policy offers a valuable contribution to public discussion of important political and policy issues facing our nation and society. These essays are important not only because of the reputation and position of the various contributors,…
Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire: Marketing Development
Author/editor:April Biccum
Year published:2009
This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. Aiming to repoliticize post-colonial theory by applying its understandings to contemporary political discourses, author…
Islam, Democracy and Dialogue in Turkey: Deliberating in Divided Societies
Author/editor:Bora Kanra
Year published:2009
Stressing the importance of the development of democratic dialogue in divided societies, Bora Kanra tests his claims of a new deliberative framework by analyzing interaction between Islamic and secular discourses in the Turkish public sphere. He also offers insight into the prospects for…
The Ayes Have it - The History of the Queensland Parliament 1957 - 1989
Author/editor:John Wanna
Year published:2009
This book is a fascinating account of the Queensland Parliament during three decades of high-drama politics. It examines in detail the Queensland Parliament from the days of the "Labor split" in the 1950s, through the conservative governments of Frank Nicklin, Joh Bjelke- Petersen and Mike Ahern,…
Theories of the Democratic State
Author/editor:John Dryzek|Patrick Dunleavy
Year published:2009
This major work provides a broad-ranging assessment of classical and contemporary theories of the state, focusing primarily on the democratic state. As well as outlining theories used to understand the state, it examines critiques of modern states that have emerged from feminism, environmentalism…
Gender and Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific
Author/editor:Bina D' Costa|Katrina Lee-Koo
Year published:2008
This book demonstrates the integral nature of gendered issues and feminist frameworks for a comprehensive understanding of contemporary IR. It uses feminist frameworks and research to both uncover and reflect upon gender and global politics in the contemporary Asia-Pacific. It also brings together…
Rational Choice Politics, Volume I: Social Choice, Equilibrium and Electoral Systems, Vol II: Voting, Elections and Pressure Politics, Volume III: Legislatures, Volume IIII: Bureaucracy, Constitutional Arrangements.
Author/editor:Keith Dowding|Torun Dewan|Kenneth A. Shepsle
Year published:2008
The formal modeling techniques of rational choice theory have become central to the discipline of political science, for example with regard to the understanding of the working of legislatures, coalition governments, executive-bureaucracy relations or electoral systems. The collection includes the…
The Culture Wars: Australian and American Politics in the 21st Century
Author/editor:James R George|Kim Huynh
Year published:2008
This book argues that 'culture wars' attitudes and conflicts intrinsic to US politics for many decades are also deeply embedded characteristics of Australian political life in the 21st century. It suggests that during the Howard years (1996-2007) culture war antagonisms were forced to the…
The Selection of Ministers in Europe: Hiring and Firing
Author/editor:Keith Dowding
Year published:2008
This volume examines, through a series of case studies of countries with differing institutional and cultural structures, the process of selection, shuffling and removal of ministers in national cabinets since 1945.Further details