Trends in Civic Engagement in Australia
Author/editor:Dr Sarah Cameron
Year published:2025
A longstanding debate concerns whether civic engagement is in decline in the advanced democracies and whether this forms part of a crisis of democracy. This paper situates Australia within this debate by providing a broad overview of the state of civic engagement in Australia. To do so, this paper…
Perceptions of Fairness and Territorial Redistribution in the Australian Federal System
Author/editor:Associate Professor Tracy B Fenwick and Dr. Thiago N. da Silva
Year published:2024
Why do 40% of Australians believe the state where they reside receive less than its fair share of the GST distribution?” Check out the latest working paper by Associate Professor Tracy B Fenwick and Dr. Thiago N. da Silva on public perceptions of fairness in the Australian Federal System.
Beyond Autonomy: Practical and Theoretical Challenges to 21st Century Federalism
Author/editor:Tracy B Fenwick and Andrew C Banfield
Year published:2022
Abstract Beyond Autonomy forces us to rethink the meaning of autonomy as a central organising pillar of federalism. Can federations exist beyond the autonomy realm designed to promote territorial selfgovernance and direct representation among various levels of government? How do governments of…
Race, Ethnicity, and the Participation Gap: Understanding Australia's Political Complexion
Author/editor:Juliet Pietsch
Year published:2018
Race, Ethnicity and the Participation Gap begins with the argument that political institutions in settler and culturally diverse societies such as Australia, the United States, and Canada should mirror their culturally diverse populations. Compared to the United States and Canada, however,…
Australia’s Unthinkable Genocide
Author/editor:Colin Tatz
Year published:2017
“We are a moral people” and the very notion that Australians could have anything to do with genocide is unthinkable—so claimed parliamentarians when Australia was asked to ratify the UN’s Genocide Convention in 1949. The reality is that even decent democrats and people who consider…
Leadership Performance and Rhetoric
Author/editor:Adam B. Masters|John Uhr
Year published:2017
This book examines both the rhetorical content of contemporary public leadership and the leadership methods pioneered by early English statesman Sir Francis Bacon. In particular, it considers the use of public rhetoric to defend leadership legitimacy in six case studies, drawing on leadership…
Policy Agendas in Australia
Author/editor:Keith Dowding|Aaron Martin
Year published:2017
This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project. It sets the project in context, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the changing policy agenda in Australia over a forty-year period, using a unique systematic dataset of governor-general…
Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future - Mark Latham (Reviews)
Author/editor:Mark Latham
Year published:2015
Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post Left Futureby Shaun Crowe In Not Dead Yet: Labor’s Post-Left Future, Mark Latham declares himself to be a new, glass-half-full kind of guy. Where he concedes that, once upon a time, he was guilty of focussing obsessively on the Labor Party’s problems, he’s now…
Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina
Author/editor:Tracy Beck Fenwick
Year published:2015
With the goal of showing the effect of domestic factors on the performance of poverty alleviation strategies in Latin America, Tracy Beck Fenwick explores the origins and rise of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) in the region, and then traces the politics and evolution of specific…
Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina
Author/editor:Tracy Beck Fenwick
Year published:2015
With the goal of showing the effect of domestic factors on the performance of poverty alleviation strategies in Latin America, Tracy Beck Fenwick explores the origins and rise of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) in the region, and then traces the politics and evolution of specific…