Product Description: Topical and up to the minute, Minority Policy: Rethinking governance when parliament matters explores the influence of marginal parliamentarians both within the major parties and on the cross benches in the formations of contemporary public policy...read more

Product Description: Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and governments to come together in public spaces and engage in constructive dialogue, informed discussion, and decisive deliberation...read more

Product Description: On many criteria, Australia has been a pioneering democracy. As one of the oldest continuing democracies, however, a health check has long been overdue. Since 2002 the Democratic Audit of Australia, a major democracy assessment project, has been applying an internationally tested set of indicators to Australian political institutions and practices...read more

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Product Description: The demands placed on western governments have increased exponentially over the years, but the fundamental structure of most of these governments - the two party system - has not. Governments are not only required to be competitive in the global economy, but the societies they represent have changed, becoming culturally and ethnically diverse...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Outlining a theoretical approach for analyzing political life and applying this approach to Australian politics and government, this study discusses a fundamental question in the liberal theory of politics: what are the capacities and limitations of authority that enable it to contribute to the diverse values of individual people? In his exposition, Kemp probes such topics as leadership, private property, national identity, trade unionism, constitutional change, political conflict, and the movement toward smaller government...read more