Author: Australia. Australian Parliamentary Delegation to the United States of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Official Report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to the United States of America Led by The Hon John McLeay, MP, Minister for Construction, 26 June - 16 July, 1976
Author: Australia. Australian Parliamentary Delegation to the United States of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Official Report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to the United States of America Led by the Hon. John Mcleay, M.p. Minister for Construction - 26 June - 16 July 1976
Author: Australia. ParliamentAustralian National Bibliography
Author: Bringing Them Home
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With Respect
Author: Mark PrebblePublisher: Institute of Policy Studies Victoria University of Welling
ISBN: 9781877347382
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
With Respect is an important and practical book about the people involved at the heart of government in New Zealand. It covers history, constitutional principles and the law, but it is mostly about people and the roles they play. Recent events in New Zealand are used to illustrate the key issues. The examples include court cases, parliamentary inquiries and debates. Subjects range from the high drama of military deployments to the day-to-day business of parliamentary expenses. Events are brought to life with a combination of wisdom and wit, to give a clear picture of how government really works. With Respect is an invaluable resource for parliamentarians, public servants and students of politics, public law, public policy and public management.
Reconstituting the Constitution
Author: Caroline MorrisPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642215726
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
All nation states, whether ancient or newly created, must examine their constitutional fundamentals to keep their constitutions relevant and dynamic. Constitutional change has greater legitimacy when the questions are debated before the people and accepted by them. Who are the peoples in this state? What role should they have in relation to the government? What rights should they have? Who should be Head of State? What is our constitutional relationship with other nation states? What is the influence of international law on our domestic system? What process should constitutional change follow? In this volume, scholars, practitioners, politicians, public officials, and young people explore these questions and others in relation to the New Zealand constitution and provide some thought-provoking answers. This book is recommended for anyone seeking insight into how a former British colony with bicultural foundations is making the transition to a multicultural society in an increasingly complex and globalised world.
Racial Folly
Author: Gordon BriscoePublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921666218
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Briscoe's grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve 'the half-caste problem'. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy figures. Briscoe's enthralling narrative combines his, and his contemporaries, institutional and family life with a high-level career at the heart of the Aboriginal political movement at its most dynamic time. It also documents the road he travelled as a seventeen year old fireman on the South Australia Railways to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in history.
Patterns of Democracy
Author: Arend LijphartPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300189125
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Examining 36 democracies from 1945 to 2010, this text arrives at conclusions about what type of democracy works best. It demonstrates that consensual systems stimulate economic growth, control inflation and unemployment, and limit budget deficits.
Electoral Engineering
Author: Pippa NorrisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521536714
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in ?electoral engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability through majoritarian arrangements or wider parliamentary diversity through proportional formula. Underlying the normative debates are important claims about the impact and consequences of electoral reform for political representation and voting behavior. The study compares and evaluates two broad schools of thought, each offering contracting expectations. One popular approach claims that formal rules define electoral incentives facing parties, politicians and citizens. By changing these rules, rational choice institutionalism claims that we have the capacity to shape political behavior. Alternative cultural modernization theories differ in their emphasis on the primary motors driving human behavior, their expectations about the pace of change, and also their assumptions about the ability of formal institutional rules to alter, rather than adapt to, deeply embedded and habitual social norms and patterns of human behavior.
Author: C. D. Rowley