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Political Survival in Pakistan
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 140.00Presenting a framework that incorporates macro-level forces into micro-level strategic calculations, this book explains key political choices by leaders and challengers in Pakistan through the political survival mechanism. It offers an explanation for continuing polity weakness in the country, and describes how political survival shapes the choices... more...
Australian Politics and Government
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00This book provides a comprehensive survey of the variety and innovation which characterises the government and politics of the Australian federation. This entails an examination of the six state and two self-governing territory governments as well as the national government. more...
Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 28.00This book, by award-winning author Judith Brett, provides the very first complete history of the Australian liberal tradition, and then of the Liberal Party from the second half of the twentieth century. more...
God Under Howard
Allen & Unwin 2005; US$ 27.22The first sustained examination of the impact of religion on contemporary Australian politics reveals the growing influence of the religious right on John Howard and his government. more...
Beyond Right and Left
Allen & Unwin 2005; US$ 29.99Maps the death of politics based on the traditional opposition between Left and Right, and offers a provocative argument for the emergence of a new values-based politics in Australia. more...
Keywords in Australian Politics
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 40.00Political language is often used without explanation in the media, public debate, textbooks and lectures. Keywords in Australian Politics provides Australians with the necessary information to use these terms with confidence in public discussion and debate, from the dinner party to the end-of-semester essay. more...
Beyond the Policy Cycle
Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 36.31A timely overview of the complex and messy realities of policy-making, for students and practitioners. more...
The Australian Electoral System
University of NSW Press 2005; US$ 32.95The first-ever comprehensive study of the design of Australian electoral systems. It focuses on the two electoral systems, both ?preferential?, that are most closely associated with Australia: namely the alternative vote and the single, transferable vote. more...
Yes, Premier
University of NSW Press 2005; US$ 32.95The focus of Yes, Premier is on the big names of state and territory Labor politics: Carr, Beattie, Bracks, Rann, Gallop, Martin, Stanhope and Bacon/Lennon. The book includes a chapter on each state or territory, and in each case focuses on the leader who has led their party to power and so created this unprecedented and historical situation. more...
Limiting Democracy
University of NSW Press 2006; US$ 13.95Recently introduced legislation and other proposal from government ministers threaten Australians? right to vote. Brian Costar and Colin A. Hughes argue that rather than watering down democratic rights we need to strengthen the key features of our electoral system. more...









