Download or read book A Dictionary of Australian Politics written by Jackie Dickenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The sheer complexity of modern government means that many citizens are uneasy about concepts that political insiders and journalists take for granted. A Dictionary of Australian Politics is a valuable guide to clearing a path through the jungle.' - Barry Jones From barbecue-stopper' to 'washminster', from 'chardonnay socialist' to 'xenophobia', A Dictionary of Australian Politics is a comprehensive and lively guide to Australian political language. With handy 'quick grab' definitions, it is supported by in-depth explanations of the history and usage of important terms. For anyone interested in politics, this is an authoritative and entertaining reference. It is uniquely Australian, bringing together a range of political terms and expressions that over time have entered the vernacular. It also includes international terms which are essential to political discussion.
Download or read book The Macmillan Dictionary of Australian Politics written by Dean Jaensch and published by South Melbourne : Macmillan of Australia. This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Macmillan Dictionary of Australian Politics written by Dean Jaensch and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Australian Politics written by Peter John Boyce and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Penguin Macquarie Dictionary of Australian Politics written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a guide to the apparatus of government in Australia, political institutions, parties, pressure groups, politicians, electorial systems and political theory. Includes appendixes in tabular form that include Australian federal election dates and results, a chronology of federal parliament, and names and dates of Prime Ministers and Opposition Leaders since federation.
Download or read book Keywords in Australian Politics written by Rodney Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate written by F. Ann Millar and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collins Australian Dictionary of Political Terms written by Robert Corcoran and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook designed for students about to enter the formal study of politics and for members of the general public who have an interest in Australian political life. The author has attempted to make the dictionary both compact and comprehensive and has tried to focus on information which has contemporary relevance. Contains appendices.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Australia written by J. C. Docherty and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Australian Politics Guide written by Dean Jaensch and published by MacMillan Education Australia. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready reference for beginning politics students at secondary and tertiary levels. The format is a cross between a handbook and a brief encyclopedia and it explains the central ideas, issues, debates and institutions in Australian political life. Entries are in alphabetical order and there is a list of entries at the beginning of the book. Charts, graphs and tables are included throughout. The author is a reader in politics at Flinders University. Also available in hardback.
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics written by Brian Galligan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Australian political life and thought covers all aspects of national politics and Australian politics in regional, international and global contexts. It also takes full account of the colonial origins of Australian politics and includes entries on indigenous politics, frontier politics and settler societies.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Democracy written by Norman Abjorensen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy is easy to talk about but hard to define in other than broad generalizations; its history is a long, complex, and contested subject. What this volume seeks to do is to explore the general evolution of political and social thinking that would eventually coalesce into what we now know as democracy, for all its imperfections and shortcomings. The question of just why some societies evolved into a democratic trajectory and others did not continues to engage the interest of historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists. Much conjecture surrounds the rise of certain elements we now recognize if not as democratic, then proto-democratic, such as collective decision-making, constraints on the exercise of power and a degree of accountability of the ruler to the ruled. If democracy in the sense of “rule by the people” has two essential qualities – rule by the majority and the equal treatment of free citizens - then its origins, however feeble, are to be found in these early examples of government. Historical Dictionary of Democracy contains a chronology, an introduction, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about democracy.
Download or read book Oxford Politics Study Dictionary written by Paul Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Australia written by Norman Abjorensen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia’s development, from the most unpromising of beginnings as a British prison in 1788 to the prosperous liberal democracy of the present is as remarkable as is its success as a country of large-scale immigration. Since 1942 it has been a loyal ally of the United States and has demonstrated this loyalty by contributing troops to the war in Vietnam and by being part of the “coalition of the willing” in the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and in operations in Afghanistan. In recent years, it has also been more willing to promote peace and democracy in its Pacific and Asian neighbors. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Australia covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Australia.
Download or read book Order Order written by Stephen Wilks and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Order, Order!’: A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives shines a first-ever historical light on the remarkable men and women who have served in these national offices since Federation. The Speakers include Frederick Holder, whose campaign to embed a Westminster-style Speakership died with him when he collapsed dramatically in the parliament; the much-loved Joan Child, Australia’s first female Speaker, whose struggles as a widow with five children fostered her commitment to social justice and made her, in the words of another Speaker, Anna Burke, ‘pretty fierce’; and Ian Sinclair, a warhorse of a parliamentarian who seemed to prove the poacher-turned-gamekeeper principle. The Deputy Speakers, a particularly eclectic assortment, include the strange and bleakly serious James Fowler, who once hopefully mailed a film synopsis to the American director Cecil B. DeMille and who ended his days warning of the perils of democracy. Amongst the Clerks are Frank Green, who, at the height of the Cold War, indiscreetly befriended members of the Communist Party, and the popular Jack Pettifer—a true child of parliament—who grew up in an apartment in the building. This book includes analysis of what sorts of individuals typically filled these vital parliamentary positions, and the appearance of an Australian model of the Speakership based on pragmatic compromise. All three offices are typically more than just creatures of political parties—something that Australians should be prepared to defend against the remorseless encroachment of political partisanship.
Download or read book Australian Political Lives written by John Nethercote and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph brings together some of the best practitioners of the art and craft of political biography in Australia. They are simultaneously some of our best scholars who, at least in part, have turned their attention to writing Australian political lives. They are not merely chroniclers of our times but multidisciplinary analysts constructing layers of explanation and theoretical insight. They include academic, professional and amateur biographers; scholars from a range of disciplines (politics, history, sociology, public administration, gender studies); and politicians who for a time strutted the political stage. The assembled papers explore the strengths and weaknesses of the biographical approach; the enjoyment it can deliver; the problems and frustrations of writing biographies; and the various ways the 'project' can be approached by those constructing these lives. They probe the art and craft of the political biographer.
Download or read book Talking Politics written by A. W. Sparkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking Politics is a philosophical examination of some of the basic concepts of political discourse. Its primary focus is on the ordinary; on what is said by politicians, in newspapers and by people in pubs, rather than on the works of political theorists. This is a work of, but not on political theory. Talking Politics is: * Invaluable as a source of reference for students, and contains a detailed index * Arranged thematically, around topics such as `Nation'. Each entry has copious cross-references and suggestions for further reading A. W. Sparkes is uniquely qualified to write such a book, combining some thirty years' teaching as a philosopher with wide experience of, and a life-long fascination with, politics. His attitude is that of a critical, but uncynical, observer.
