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Full Papers

Please find below refereed full papers to be presented at the APSA Conference 2011, being held in Canberra on 26–28 September 2011.

Australian Political Science Association Conference 2011 [ISBN 978-0-646-56460-9]

More papers will be added as they become available.
Please note: not all papers will become publically available. Registered conference attendees will shortly be sent a password-protected link so they may access other papers.

Norman Abjorensen, Yusaku Horiuchi & Meg Sato

Decomposition of Valence and Paradox of Primary Election

Merrindahl Andrew

Meagre Harvest or Just Poorly Documented? Tracking women's movement legacies through government records 

Craig Applegate & Chris Sadleir

Reasonable Insurance In Trade And Investment: Australia and its preferential trade agreements

Naomi Atkins International as Personal: discursive narratives of hegemonic masculinity in international relations
Samantha Balaton-Chrimes, Scott Brenton & Kate Macdonald

Market Based Regulation in the Global Economy: Consumer regulation by remote control?

Peter Balint Neutrality and diversity
Andrew C Banfield Courts, Legislatures, and the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage
Kate Barrelle

From Terrorist to Citizen

Adrian Bazbauers From Leading to Supporting Actor: The World Bank Group in a ‘Tale of Two Crises’: The Response of the World Bank Group to the 2008 global financial crisis
Clive Bean & Gavin Kendall The Social Foundations of Risk
Paul Belesky

Crisis and Uncertainty or Business As Usual? A critique of the laissez-faire market ideology from a Polanyian perspective

Judith Betts

The Changing Australian Politics of WMD over the Course of the Iraq War. Political agendas and press coverage

Emma Blomkamp Comparing the Uncertain Terrain of Local Cultural Governance in Australia & New Zealand
John Boswell

Weighing the Evidence: Exploring rationality in Australia’s obesity debate

W.A.P. Bosworth

The Metatheoretical Significance of Power: An approach to the analysis of political concepts

Douglas Brown Canada and the Recession: Testing decentralized fiscal federalism
Ann Capling & John Ravenhill Multilateralising Regionalism: What role for the Trans-Pacific partnership?
Peter Carroll

Australia and the Bretton Woods Institutions: The IMF

Thomas Caunce

The Rudd Government: Strengthening Labor’s social democratic ideology through Keynesian postulates

Mark Chou

New Authoritarianism Meets Inverted Totalitarianism: An unconventional comparative analysis of democracy in China and the US

Bushra Hasina Chowdhury

Subservient Subalterns: Women in local government in Bangladesh

Brian Coffey

Victorian Labor and the Environment: A Legacy to be proud of?

Monica Costa, Marian Sawer & Rhonda Sharp

Women Acting for Women: The case of gender-responsive public finance in Timor-Leste

George Crowder Berlin and Rawls
Michael Crozier & Adrian Little Democratic Voice: Popular sovereignty in conditions of pluralization
Michael Crozier David Easton’s systems analysis & the new communications ecology
Fergal F Davis

‘I Saw Two Shooting Stars Last Night’: Caution against wishing for constitutional reform of the UK royal prerogative

Keith Dowding, Andrew Hindmoor, Aaron Martin & Adam Packer

The Agenda of ‘Policy Agendas in Australia’

Brendan Robert Drew

A Culture of Silence: Designing a questionnaire to accommodate the Thai taboo on publicly talking about sex

Constance Duncombe The Twitter Revolution? Social Media, Representation and Crisis in Iran and Libya
Robyn Eckersley

Does Climate Leadership Matter?

Julie Evans & Nesam McMillan

Moving On? An interdisciplinary analysis of official responses to structural injustice

Paul Fawcett

The Core Executive in New South Wales (1995–2011)

Brian Galligan, Martina Boese, Melissa Phillips & Annika Kearton

Boosting Regional Settlement of Migrants and Refugees in Australia: Policy initiatives and challenges

Bligh Grant & Brian Dollery

Regrets? He’s Had a Few: The implications of Gerry Stoker’s revisionism for Australian local government reform

Matthew Griggs Defending Minority Rights in Ethnic Nation States: Does the prospect of democratic nationalism pose a threat to the minority Uzbek population of Kyrgyzstan?
Andrew Gunstone

The Establishment of the 1991–2000 Australian Reconciliation Process

Max Halupka & Cassandra Star

The Utilisation of Direct Democracy and Meritocracy in the Decision Making Process of the Decentralised Virtual Community Anonymous

Natalia Hanley & Stuart Ross

Mental Illness in Policy Discourse: Locating the criminal justice system

Brian Head & Linda Colley

Asset Sales: From financial necessity to policy opportunism?

Lisa Hill & Adam Bugeja Changing Conceptions of Political Corruption in the Eighteenth Century
Yusaku Horiuchi & Meg Sato

Electoral Redistricting, Incumbency Advantage, and Endogenous Candidate Selection

Nobuhiro Ihara

Rethinking the First Year of Asean, 1967–1968: How was the expansion of Indonesia’s influence in the region constrained?

Haroro J Ingram

The Radicalisation Process: An interdisciplinary approach

Sarah John & Leigh Hargreaves

The Alternative Vote in Australia: Exacerbating a Culture of Adversarialism?

Norm Kelly

Women’s Representation in Melanesia: Prospects for the Future

Andrew B Kennedy

Red Dragon, Green Energy: Techno-nationalism in China’s approach to renewable energy

Sukhmani Khorana & Ramaswami Harindranath

New Technologies, Gandhian Activism, and Democracy: Re-examining civil society

Fiona Kinner & Lou Wilson

Urban Densification Policy and the Health of the Child

Jikon Lai Crisis, Liberalisation and Development: The Evolution of Malaysia's Financial Sector since the Asian Financial Crisis
John Langmore

Distinctive Features of Norwegian Foreign Policy: Possible Lessons for Australia

Joanne Lau Citizens, Residence and Democratic Participation
Ashley Lavelle

The Politics of the ‘Working Family’

Will Lee

Evaluating the Prospects of a Democratic Security Community Between Australia and Indonesia

Adrian Little & Kate Macdonald

The Social Foundations of Global Democracy: Escaping the statist imaginary

Timothy J Lynch

‘A Change of Leaders is the Joy of Fools’: Bush, Obama and Continuity in American Foreign Policy

Timothy J Lynch

Bush, Obama and the Arab Spring: From crisis to uncertainty to democracy?

Terry Macdonald On Legitimacy: The real first virtue of global political institutions
Greg Mahony & Christopher Sadleir Integration within CER: Regulating FDI, Crises & the Challenge of Cultural Norms
Craig Mark

Domestic and Regional Politics of Japan, Post 3/11

Aaron Martin

Young People and Political Participation in Australia: Evidence from the ISSP

Adam Masters

Privatizing Policing on a Global Scale? Interpol’s new partnerships

Deborah Mayersen

Operationalising the Preventive Component of the Responsibility to Protect: Strategies and Implementation

Ian McAllister, Clive Bean, Juliet Pietsch Leadership Change, Policy Issues and Voting in the 2010 Australian Federal Election
Bronwyn McDonald The Political Legacy of Iris Marion Young: Situating Responsibility and Justice
Kirsty McLaren

Continuity and Change: Protest event analysis of the Australian Women’s Movement, 1970-2005

Kcasey McLoughlin

Of Merit and (Wo)Men: The politics of gender and judicial appointments

Kate McMillan Passport Requirements within Free Travel Zones: Facilitators or inhibitors of Regional Integration?
Sara Meger

The Role of Patriarchy and the Political Economy in Wartime Sexual Violence: The case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

John Mikler

The Illusion of Market Power

David Mickler & Melissa Phillips Evaluating Australia's ‘new engagement’ with Africa
David Mickler & Nesam McMillan Locating 'regime change' in R2P and the ICC
Michael Miller Democracy by Example? Economic Growth, Policy Diffusion, and Regime Change
Michael Miller Elections, Information, and Policy Responsiveness in Hybrid Regimes
Muhammad Tariq Moj

Deobandi Madaris: The Counterculture Context

Tod Moore

Thinking About Australian Unity Since the 1890s

Aley Nassor The Democratic Transition in Tanzania: Parliamentary Authority and Executive Power in the House of Representatives of Zanzibar
Suman Ojha

Parliamentary Committees in Queensland During 1996–2001: How effective in scrutinising the executive?

Michael O’Keefe

Australian Sanctions Against Fiji: Reappraising the calculus of success

Stephen Owen

Researching Subjectification and Surveillance in Social Network Sites

Heni Pancaningtyas

The Gender Quota Movement in Indonesia

Helen Pringle

Blaspheming in the Suburbs: The offence of blasphemy in a free speech regime

Helen Pringle

Is Compulsory Voting an Illusion?

Delphine Rabet

The Interplay of Foreign Multinational Corporations and the State in Environmental Governance

Cain Roberts Domesticated foreign policy? Prime ministers, domestic actors and a public policy approach to foreign policy analysis
Brooke Rogers My place or ours? Renegotiating the meaning of place
Naeem Salik

India-Pakistan Nuclear Competition: Implications for regional stability

Will Sanders

Analysing Electoral Systems Through Five Simple Questions: A journey of discovery from local government in Australia’s Northern Territory to the world of electoral science

Andy Scerri

Greening Citizenship, After Dualism

Andrew Scott

The Fragmentation of Political Parties on the Left and the Formation of New Alignments: Comparing Australia with ‘red-green’ coalitions in northern Europe

Shirley V Scott & Lucia Oriana

International Law, Soft Power, and Public Diplomacy

Adam Simpson

Climate Change, Energy, Justice and Security in Myanmar (Burma)

Katherine Smith Gendering Neutrality: A feminist investigation of International Humanitarian Assistance and its gender framework
Jonathan Strauss

The Significance of the Organisational Origins of the Greens

Gwenda Tavan

No Going Back? Australian multiculturalism as a path dependent process

Elizabeth Thurbon

Same But Different: Reviving the developmental state model by revisiting its ideational foundations

Bruce Tranter

Party Leaders, Global Warming and Green Voting in Australia

Emma Wannell The Australian Climate Debate: Positioning Australia within an international climate change context
Aiden Warren

The Prague Vision: An assessment of Obama’s nuclear policy

Andrew Zammit Explaining Australia-Lebanon Jihadist Connections
Rizwan Zeb Traditional Power Structure and Ethnopolitical Conflict in Baluchistan: Target Killing on Punjabi Settlers as a case Study