Comparing Westminster
Author/editor:Rod A. W Rhodes|John Wanna|Patrick Weller
Year published:2011
This book explores how the governmental elites in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa understand their Westminster system. It examines in detail four interrelated features of Westminster systems: firstly, the increasing centralization in collective, responsible cabinet…
Encyclopedia of Power
Author/editor:Keith Dowding
Year published:2011
Power is a central concept in many disciplines in the social sciences, including political science, sociology, social-psychology, organization studies, urban politics and planning. Where the term is less often used, such as in economics, it has been reduced to other concepts. Despite, or perhaps…
Everything We Need to Know about Compulsory Voting
Author/editor:André Blais
Year published:2011
For someone like me who studies elections and electoral rules, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear ‘Australia’ is …compulsory voting, and Australia is the first country that comes to mind when I hear ‘compulsory voting’.For someone coming from Noth America, the idea of forcing people to…
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…