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…
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…