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The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 June 2016
- ISBN 9780198753254
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 242x162x23 mm
- Weight 626 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 Tables 0
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Short description:
This volume analyses how Australia's economic and social policy diverges from that of the wider Anglophone world. It looks at diverse issues such as labour market regulation, taxation, and political power and voting.
MoreLong description:
This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries. Australia seems to be following a 'special path' of its own that it laid down more than a century ago. Australia's distinctive bent is manifested in a tightly regulated labour market; a heavy reliance on means testing and income taxation; a geographical centralization of political power combined with its dispersal amongst autonomous authorities, and electoral singularities such as compulsory and preferential voting.
In seeking to explain this Australian Exceptionalism, the book covers a diverse range of issues: the strength and weakness of religion, democratic and undemocratic tendencies, the poverty of public debate, the role of elites, the exploitation of Australian sports stars, the politics of railways, the backwardness of agriculture, deviation from the Westminster system, the original encounter between European and Aboriginal cultures, and the heavy taxation of tobacco.
Bringing together contributions from economists, economic historians, and political scientists, the volume seeks to understand why Australia is different. It offers a range of explanations from the 'historical legacy', to material factors, historical chance, and personalities.
This edited collection of papers by prominent, mostly conservative writers provides a lot of thought-provoking analysis of Australian exceptionalism and whether it was of its time in the past or is continuing.
Table of Contents:
The Australian Exception
Australian Exceptionalism: A Personal View
Theories of Australian Exceptionalism
Utilitarianism contra Sectarianism: The Official and the Unauthorised Civic Religion of Australia
Tocqueville, Hancock, and the Sense of History
Australia's 'Talent for Bureaucracy' and the Atrophy of Federalism
Australia's Industrial Relations Singularity
Australia's Electoral Idiosyncrasies
Socialism in Six Colonies: The Aftermath
We must all be capitalists now: The Strange Story of Compulsory Superannnuation in Australia
Australia's Economic Mores through the Lens of the Professional Sports Industry: Individual Rights or State Paternalism?
The Industrialist, the Solicitor, and Mr Justice Higgins: Some Biographical Insights into the Harvester Case of 1907
Barons versus Bureaucrats: the History of the Grain Trade in North America and Australia
Australia's Distinctive Governance: Westminster, Ottawa, and Canberra Differentiated
Australia and New Zealand: Parallel and Divergent Paths
