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Book Synopsis Contesting the Australian Way by : Paul Smyth
Download or read book Contesting the Australian Way written by Paul Smyth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s public policy has been perceived as being in a crisis of uncertainty. Many argue that consolidating the market imperative in both economic and social policy is the way out of this crisis. In this 1999 book, a leading group of writers challenge this view, calling for reassertion of a 'mixed' rather than a 'market' economy and a reaffirmation of the egalitarianism that has characterised past Australian social policy. The book confronts key issues of our time, particularly rising inequality and unemployment. Attempting to look beyond familiar debates about economic rationalism, it discusses the role of industry policy, the impact of globalisation, and the usefulness of competition models in the public, welfare, and community sectors. Asking whether economic and social policy can be reintegrated in a shared vision, this groundbreaking book argues the case for reinventing government rather than marginalising it.
Book Synopsis Innovations in Labour Market Policies The Australian Way by : OECD
Download or read book Innovations in Labour Market Policies The Australian Way written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides an in-depth analysis of industrial relations and labour market policies in Australia, with particular attention to recent insights from three years of operating experience with a contestable employment services market.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics by : Jenny M. Lewis
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics written by Jenny M. Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is a comprehensive collection that considers Australia's distinctive politics— both ancient and modern— at all levels and across many themes. It examines the factors that make Australian politics unique and interesting, while firmly placing these in the context of the nation's Indigenous and imported heritage and global engagement. The book presents an account of Australian politics that recognizes and celebrates its inherent diversity by taking a thematic approach in six parts. The first theme addresses Australia's unique inheritances, examining the development of its political culture in relation to the arrival of British colonists and their conflicts with First Nations peoples, as well as the resulting geopolitics. The second theme, improvization, focuses on Australia's political institutions and how they have evolved. Place-making is then considered to assess how geography, distance, Indigenous presence, and migration shape Australian politics. Recurrent dilemmas centres on a range of complex, political problems and their influence on contemporary political practice. Politics, policy, and public administration covers how Australia has been a world leader in some respects, and a laggard in others, when dealing with important policy challenges. The final theme, studying Australian politics, introduces some key areas in the study of Australian politics and identifies the strengths and shortcomings of the discipline. The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is an opportunity for others to consider the nation's unique politics from the perspective of leading and emerging scholars, and to gain a strong sense of its imperfections, its enduring challenges, and its strengths.
Book Synopsis The Ends and Means of Welfare by : Peter Saunders
Download or read book The Ends and Means of Welfare written by Peter Saunders and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2002, explores the relation between economic liberalism and social policy in Australia.
Book Synopsis Power, Profit and Protest by : Verity Burgmann
Download or read book Power, Profit and Protest written by Verity Burgmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'a provocative must-read text for an engaged public, offering a distinctive Australian take on corporate globalism, and grounding this in a robust theory of social change that emphasises material power and interests, along with symbolic power and ideology' James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney Social movements transformed Western societies in the 1960s and 1970s: feminism, black rights, the peace movement and gay liberation all radically altered how we think and how we live. What has happened to social movements since then? Can demonstrations and other forms of social activism still make a difference in Australia? Verity Burgmann argues that corporate globalisation has threatened or transformed established social movements, and sparked powerful new forms of social protest. She examines the impact of globalisation and neo-liberal government policies on the feminist and indigenous rights movements, showing how they have been affected by the politics of backlash after decades of success. She explores the way in which the environment movement, too, has been affected by rising corporate political influence. She also analyses the emergence of anti-capitalist and anti-corporate activism and the profound challenges posed by this newest of social movements to the state, to society in general and to the labour movement in particular. These important factors in a changing political landscape. This book reflects on the significant changes which has taken place since Power and Protest was published in 1993.
Book Synopsis Australian Public Policy by : Miller, Chris
Download or read book Australian Public Policy written by Miller, Chris and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when neoliberal and conservative politics are again in the ascendency and social democracy is waning, Australian public policy re-engages with the values and goals of progressive public policy in Australia and the difficulties faced in re-affirming them. It brings together leading authors to explore economic, environmental, social, cultural, political and indigenous issues. It examines trends and current policy directions and outlines progressive alternatives that challenge and extend current thinking. While focused on Australia, the contributors offer valuable insights for people in other countries committed to social justice and those engaged in the ongoing contest between neo-liberalism and social democracy. This is essential reading for policy practitioners, researchers and students as well those with an interest in the future of public policy.
Book Synopsis A Concise History of Australia by : Stuart Macintyre
Download or read book A Concise History of Australia written by Stuart Macintyre and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, in a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions has long been frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness. This revised edition incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary historical debates on frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations. It covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the 'Pacific solution'. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future.
Book Synopsis Social Security Law and Policy by : Terry Carney
Download or read book Social Security Law and Policy written by Terry Carney and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the legal meaning of the radical new laws which have transformed the social security system in the last decade.It analyses legislation and case law and lays out the legal principles and concepts, which underpin the sweeping reforms, culminating in the 'welfare reform' package announced in the 2005 Budget. It also explores the policy foundations of these reforms and key administrative changes, such as the creation of a privatised 'job network' and of Centrelink as a 'payment agency' .This book also explores the tension between traditional 'protective' functions of social security and the contemporary focus on 'activation', reciprocity and 'capacity-building', and the extent to which social changes have altered the form of Australian welfare. It reviews the history and transformation of the welfare state, the ideas about the nature of poverty and need, and the policy choices to be made.Detailed case studies are made of the law and policy affecting key groups such as the unemployed, people with illness or disability, and sole parents, as well as the administration and review rights of welfare recipients, and the workings of income and means tests.
Book Synopsis Child Care Policy at the Crossroads by : Sonya Michel
Download or read book Child Care Policy at the Crossroads written by Sonya Michel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether childcare is seen as part of society's educational policy, welfare policy, or employment policy affects not only its form and content but also its public image. The contributors in this volume use current polices for the care of infants and preschool children to analyze debates and track the emergence of new state welfare practices across a variety of social and political configurations-and offer some conclusions about which methods work the best.
Book Synopsis Post-Keynesian Essays from Down Under Volume III: Essays on Ethics, Social Justice and Economics by : G. Harcourt
Download or read book Post-Keynesian Essays from Down Under Volume III: Essays on Ethics, Social Justice and Economics written by G. Harcourt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Halevi, G. C. Harcourt, Peter Kriesler and J. W. Nevile bring together a collection of their most influential papers on post-Keynesian thought. Their work stresses the importance of the underlying institutional framework, of the economy as a historical process and, therefore, of path determinacy. In addition, their essays suggest the ultimate goal of economics is as a tool to inform policy and make the world a better place, with better being defined by an overriding concern with social justice. Volume III explores the ethics of economics.
Book Synopsis Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? by : Robin Archer
Download or read book Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? written by Robin Archer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party? This title puts forward an explanation for why there is no American labor party - an explanation that suggests that much of the conventional wisdom about 'American exceptionalism' is untenable.
Book Synopsis The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society by : Jason L. Powell
Download or read book The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society written by Jason L. Powell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence social policy at a national and local level. Among the many ramifications of these changes is that globalizing influences may hinder the ability of individual nation-states to effect policies that are beneficial to them on a local level. With contributions from thirteen countries worldwide, this collected work represents the first major comparative analysis on the effect of globalization on the international welfare state. The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society is divided into two major sections: the first draws from a number of leading social welfare researchers from diverse countries who point to the nation-state as case studies; highlighting how it goes about establishing and revising social welfare provisions. The second portion of the volume then moves to a more global perspective in its analysis and questioning of the impact of globalization on citizenship, ageing and marketization. The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society seeks to encourage debate about the implications of the most pressing social welfare issues in nation-states, and integrate analyses of policy and practice in particular countries struggling to provide social welfare support for their needy populations.
Book Synopsis APAIS, Australian Public Affairs Information Service by :
Download or read book APAIS, Australian Public Affairs Information Service written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1963 includes section Current Australian serials; a subject list.
Book Synopsis The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability by : Jon Hawkes
Download or read book The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability written by Jon Hawkes and published by Common Ground. This book was released on 2001 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural vitality is an essential to a healthy and sustainable society as social equity, envrinmental responsibilty and economic viability. In order for public planning to be more effective, its methodology should include an integrated framework of cultural evaluation similar to social, environmental and economic assessment.
Book Synopsis Australian Ways by : Lenore Manderson
Download or read book Australian Ways written by Lenore Manderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, the first of its kind in Australia, illustrates the richness of data and analysis born of the anthropological study of contemporary white Australian society. The studies presented here deal with diverse settings and events, ranging from a community's responses to a bushfire in rural NSW to the messages encoded in a male strip show in Adelaide. Work and leisure, family life and institutional relationships, natural disaster and culturally manipulated violence, the particular experiences of the homeless, the elderly, immigrants - all form a part of this collection. Specifically and recurrently, the power of gender and class within Australian life is underlined. This book was inspired by the need to demonstrate the especial skills and insights of anthropology when brought to bear on familiar 'everyday' data. It will be of interest to anyone curious about the colour and diversity of Australian life.
Author :Tim Rowse Publisher :API Network Australia Research Institute Curtin University O ISBN 13 : Total Pages :368 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Contesting Assimilation by : Tim Rowse
Download or read book Contesting Assimilation written by Tim Rowse and published by API Network Australia Research Institute Curtin University O. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contesting assimilation (Symposia)
Book Synopsis The Australian Study of Politics by : R. Rhodes
Download or read book The Australian Study of Politics written by R. Rhodes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian Study of Politics provides the first comprehensive reference book on the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether described as political studies or political science. It focuses on Australia and on developments since WWII, also exploring the historical roots of each major subfield.
