Australia Reshaped - 200 Years of Institutional Transformation

Klappentext Australia Reshaped is the capstone volume in the Reshaping Australian Institutions series. As the summation of all that has gone before, this book is structurally and qualitatively different from the others. Eight leading social scientists have been invited to write a major essay on a key element of Australian institutional life. Each chapter has the length and depth of a major contribution, acting as an overview of the field for both local readers and an international scholarly audience. Zusammenfassung Eight leading social scientists have been invited to write a major essay on a key element of Australian institutional life. Each chapter has the length and depth of a major contribution! acting as an overview of the field for both local readers and an international scholarly audience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Geoffrey Brennan and Francis G. Castles; 1. Australian institutions and Australia's welfare Francis G. Castles; 2. The institutions of microeconomic regulation and reform Geoffrey Brennan and Jonathon Pincus; 3. Globalization and Australian institutions John Braithwaite; 4. Including Australia: a democratic history John Dryzek; 5. Waltzing Matilda: gender and Australian political institutions Marian Sawer; 6. The language of leadership: Prime Ministers as political institutions John Uhr; 7. The grammar of colonial legality: subjects, objects and the rule of law Martin Krygier.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Castles Brennan
• Assisted by: Geoffrey Brennan (Editor), Brennan Geoffrey (Editor), Francis G. Castles (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2002
• EAN: 9780521520751
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52075-1
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Reshaping Australian Instituti; Reshaping Australian Institutions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Australia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Australian & Oceanian, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political structure & processes, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history, Political structure and processes