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Academic Staff Research Interests

 

Political Science


Dr Linda Botterill
Public Policy – esp policy development processes, particularly withreference to rural policy; values in the policy process; interest groups and policy communities; policy making and federalism; Australian Politics - the National Party, the wheat industry; structural adjustment and drought policy.

Professor Keith Dowding
Public administration - esp politician-agency relations, public sector reform; Australian Politics – esp cabinet, career paths of politicians, federalism; Comparative Politics all areas esp electoral systems, comparative legislatures, comparative executives, comparative party systems; collective action; British politics; Political Sociology - collective action/mass mobilization; agency-structure; choice; Urban Politics - esp satisfaction with services, the Tiebout framework, competitive local government, fiscal federalism; Political Theory and Political Philosophy - analytic political theory, esp freedom, equality, power, democratic theory, theories of justice, rational choice theory, philosophy of social science.

Professor Geoffrey Brennan

Public choice theory

Professor John Dryzek

Public Policy - environmental politics; Comparative Politics - theory and practice of democracy; Political Theory and Political Philosophy - democratic theory.

Dr Jim George

International relations; political theory

Dr Gwen Gray
Health policy; public policy; theories of welfare; federalism; women and public policy

Dr Matthew Gray
Political economy; international realtions in the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict

Dr John Hart
American and British politics

Professor Paul 't Hart
Public Policy bureaucratic and civic leadership, political-administrative relations and crisis management, agenda-setting/framing, decision-making and evaluation in public policy; Comparative Politics - political leadership, senior executives, celebrity politics.

Professor Barry Hindess
Social and political theory; contemporary politics

Mr Kim Huynh
International Relations, Vietnamese Politics, Everyday Resistance,
Political Literature, Biography.

Dr M Mehdi Ilhan
Modern Turkish language; Ottoman history and language; history of Islam

Dr James Jupp
Immigration; multicultural affairs

Dr Rick Kuhn
Australian politics and political economy, Germany, Austria, unions, anti-war movements, fascism, labor/social democratic parties, and
Marxist theory, parties and politics.

Dr Katrina Lee Koo
Critical security studies, identity and conflict, gender and international politics

Dr. Christa Knellwolf
European national identity (17th to 19th century); European exploration and colonisation (18th and 19th centuries), cultural history

Professor Ian McAllister

Comparative Politics - voting, political behavior, political parties and electoral systems, internet and politics’ British politics, Northern Ireland politics; Australian Politics - all areas, but esp political behavior, political parties and electoral systems Political Sociology the social bases of party support and political participation.

Dr Michael McKinley

International relations; strategic studies; Australian foreign policy; regional security

Dr John Minns
International political economy, newly industrializing countries, labour movement

Dr Kirill Nourzhanov
Politics; international relations; conflict resolution in contemporary Central Asia

Dr Gail Radford
History of the Women’s Electoral Lobby

Professor Amin Saikal
Politics, history, political economy and international relations of the Middle East and Central Asia.

Dr William Sanders
Indigenous affairs policy, including social security, housing, employment, local government and intergovernmental relations. Also Indigenous-specific elections and the role of Indigenous people and issues in general elections

Professor Marian Sawer
Gender and politics; representative democracy

Dr Jeremy Shearmur
Philosophy/methodology of social science; political theory; history of political thought; classical liberalism; Hayek; Popper

Dr William Sutherland

Politics of regional co-operation in the South Pacific, Fiji Politics, Problems of small island States, South Pacific Trade and Fisheries.

Dr John Uhr
Australian government; political theory

Professor Jay J Wanna
Australian government and public administration

Professor John Warhurst
Australian political institutions; political parties and interest groups; elections and voting; public policy; religion and politics; political lobbying.

Dr Ben Wellings

Nationalism, history and politics in Europe, Britain and Australia

Dr David West
Contemporary political theory; Hannah Arendt; Habermas and critical theory; theories of new social movements; politics of sexuality.

Professor David Marsh
Comparative Politics comparative governance, politics and the media, political participation; Political Sociology.

Dr Janine O’Flynn
Public Policy public sector reform, public management, government contracting, employee relations/human resource management in the public sector.

Professor John Wanna
Public Policy - Executives; civil service; Australian Politics - Federal and state politics.