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Australian Politics and Policy: Senior Edition 2023

Senior Edition 2023

Edited by Nick Barry, Peter Chen, Yvonne Haigh, Sara C. Motta and Diana Perche

ISBN: 9781743328859

DOI: 10.30722/sup.9781743328859

Publication date: 13 January 2023

The first completely open access textbook on Australian politics, Australian Politics and Policy provides a unique, holistic coverage of politics and public topics for use in junior and senior university courses. With an new sections on policy making and public management, the book can be used by instructors to suit their teaching needs.   With contributions from Australia’s leading politics and public-policy scholars, the textbook includes material on Australian political history and philosophy, key political institutions, Australian political sociology, public policy-making in Australia, and specialised chapters on a range of key policy domains.   Each chapter was subject to anonymous and rigorous peer-review to ensure the highest standards. The textbook comes with additional teaching resources including review questions and lecture slides. This second edition contains a number of revisions and new chapters on educational policy, the governance of COVID-19, and political leadership. The senior edition is aimed at later year undergraduate and postgraduate students.
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About the Editors

Dr Nicholas Barry is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and Philosophy at La Trobe University. His research and teaching interests are in political theory, political institutions and Australian politics. He is currently working on a number of projects relating to contemporary theories of egalitarian justice, the dynamics of constitutional conventions and institutional change in Australia.

Dr Peter John Chen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations where he teaches Australian and regional politics, media politics, and public policy. He is the author of Animal Welfare in Australia: Politics and Policy (2016) and Australian Politics in a Digital Age (2013) and the co-editor of Double Disillusion: The 2016 Australian Federal Election (2018).

Dr Yvonne Haigh is a senior lecturer in policy and governance at Murdoch University and chair of the policy and management program at the Sir Walter Murdoch School of Public Policy and International Affairs. Yvonne has expertise in teaching and research across broad areas of public policy and management. Her text Public policy in Australia: theory and practice (2012) is used across Australia and Asia as the key public policy text for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Her research covers policy development, public sector ethics, public sector corruption, education policy, housing redevelopment, youth crime and citizenship.

Associate Professor Sara C. Motta is a mother, critical political theorist, poet, popular educator and associate professor in politics and political economy, based in the Discipline of Politics and International Relations at the Newcastle Business School at the University of Newcastle. She is currently facilitating a number of activist-scholar research projects, including ‘La politica de maternidad’ with militant mothers and grandmothers in Australia, Colombia and Brazil. She has published over 40 academic articles and two edited books, and is the author of Constructing twenty-first century socialism in Latin America: the role of radical education (2014) and Liminal subjects: weaving (our) liberation (2018).

Diana Perche is a Senior Lecturer and Academic Coordinator at Nura Gili Indigenous Programs Unit at UNSW Sydney. Prior to this, Diana lectured in public policy at Macquarie University from 2005-2016, and was the director of the Master of Politics and Public Policy. Diana has worked in a number of policy-related positions, including in the Australian Public Service, and has a keen interest in the interplay between policy research and policy practice. Her expertise in Australian politics and public policy includes an interest in the use of evidence in policy formulation, and a particular focus on Indigenous affairs.

 

This is an Open Access book licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence.

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