A01=James Walter
A01=Paul Strangio
Author_James Walter
Author_Paul Strangio
Category=JPA
Category=JPV
Category=JPW
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Product details
- ISBN 9780868408873
- Weight: 158g
- Dimensions: 155 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2007
- Publisher: UNSW Press
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Paperback
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Leadership has become the principal lingua franca of politics. Prime ministers now occupy the centre of the nations political universe. But what are the causes and implications of the sharpening of prime ministerial power? Is untrammelled leadership consistent with democracy? And how is it related to the growing incumbency advantages enjoyed by governments? In this important appraisal of recent Australian political life, James Walter and Paul Strangio analyse the performances of five prime ministers (Whitlam, Fraser, Hawke, Keating and Howard) against the background of institutional changes to the political system that have been in train over the past three decades. The authors also look forward, to ask whether a new prime minister, such as Kevin Rudd, would reverse these trends, and to suggest ways to counter the detrimental vogue for leadership-centric politics.
Dr Paul Strangio describes himself as one of the new breed of academic nomads. He has taught Australian politics and history at Deakin University, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria University of Technology and Monash University. He is the author of No Toxic Dump!: Contesting Corporate and Government Power (2001) and co-editor, with Peter Love, of Arguing the Cold War (2001). He is a regular radio commentator on politics, and contributor to Australia's leading literary and political magazines.
