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…
William Maley - Political Philosophy of F.A. Bland
Author/editor:William Maley
Year published:2011
'If the discipline of political science in Australia has a forgotten man, that man must surely be Francis Armand Bland. Professor public administration at the University of Sydney from 1935 until his retirement in 1947, Bland was a prolific writer and commentator on public policy and affairs, and…
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…