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
Conal Condren - Political Theory
Author/editor:Conal Condren
The principal aim of the Centre for the Study of Australia Politics is the investigation of political theory and science from a uniquely Australian perspective. This survey of political scholarship from Conal Condren that appeared in 'Surveys of Australian Politics' (Don Aitkin eds. Goerge…
Girt - David Hunt (Reviews)
Author/editor:David Hunt
GirtShaun CroweWhen Tony Abbott decided to revive British honours in late March, he did so because it would add a “grace note” to Australian life. He thought it would be “nice touch”, an enriching ornament to our past. Knights and Dames would again lumber over the national landscape, representing…
Greg Gericho - The Rise of the Fifth Estate (Reviews)
Author/editor:Greg Gericho
The Rise of the Fifth Estateby Marija Taflaga In a year that saw the US Republican presidential convention undermined by citizen fact-checkers, that saw Fairfax Media apologise to the Prime Minister after a story claiming that she may have broken the law was swiftly dissected and…
Gregory Melleuish - Australia and the Servile State
Author/editor:Gregory Melleuish
In recent years there has been an enormous amount of work done on Australian literature. Unfortunately this has not been matched by an interest in others areas of Australian intellectual life, including political thought. This raises the suspicion that perhaps there has been no political thought…
Julie Tonkin and Don Fletcher - Kate Grenville: giving voice to women
Author/editor:Julie Tonkin|Don Fletcher
In this essay we indicate some of the ways in which Kate Grenville’s fiction is designed to suggest how women are oppressed by language and violence and how they might escape complicity in that oppression. Grenville’s work is not feminist theory. Indeed, she has said that she writes to explore…
L.J. Hume - Another Look at the Cultural Cringe
Author/editor:L.J. Hume
It has become a very common practice among contemporary historians, writers of letters to newspapers, book reviewers and other commentators on Australian affairs to refer to a cultural (or colonial or cultural colonial) cringe when they are describing the attitudes and behavior of earlier…
Peter Loveday - Australian Political Thought
Author/editor:Peter Loveday
This classic contribution to the study of politics in Australia from the recently deceased Peter Loveday originally appeared in Richard Lucy (ed.) 'The Pieces of Politics'; MacMillan, 1975."Political thought in Australia has never been shaped into coherent and well-established bodies of doctrine…