Melbourne Journal of Politics articles from January 1 1999

Melbourne Journal of Politics archives from January 1 1999

Erratum.
January 1, 1999... The page header from page 29 to page 57 should read `The ideology of ACOSS'.

Karl Marx.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Francis Wheen. 1999. Karl Marx. London: fourth estate. $49.95. A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. This is the hobgoblin of Communism, appearing in the first English translation of the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and...

Democracy's Edges.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Democracy's edges. Cambridge University Press. We live in a time when liberal democracy dominates world wide, leading governments, supra-national institutions and political scientists to declare the end of history. Yet, at the same time as...

Democracy's Value.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Democracy's value. Cambridge University Press, Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon (eds). 1999. We live in a time when liberal democracy dominates world wide, leading governments, supra-national institutions and political scientists to...

The Terms of Democracy.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Michael Saward. 1998. The terms of democracy. Cambridge: Polity Press. Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon (eds). 1999. We live in a time when liberal democracy dominates world wide, leading governments, supra-national institutions...

The Political Economy of NATO: Past, Present, and into the 21st Century.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley. 1999. The Political Economy of NA TO: Past, Present, and into the 21st Century. Cambridge University Press For most Australian readers, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is of peripheral interest...

The Rise and Decline of the State.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Martin Van Creveld. 1999. The Rise and Decline of the State. Cambridge University Press $34.95 Paperback Martin Van Creveld is a Professor of History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. A specialist in military history, his publications...

A reply to David Tacey's what are we afraid of?: intellectualism, aboriginality, and the sacred (1).(response to David Tacey, Melbourne Journal of Politics, vol. 25, p. 189, 1998)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... In responding to my essay (2) critically examining his book Edge Of the Sacred (3), David Tacey rejects my criticism that he is imposing "alien" archetypal structures upon Aboriginal culture on the grounds that "the claim of archetypal theory...

Charitable interpretations: the Industry Commission tells a story.
January 1, 1999... "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more or less." "The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The...

Peacekeeping and the Lusaka Protocol *.(Angolan Civil War)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1999... Few governments are more deserving of revolutionary overthrow than that of President Eduardo dos Santos. Few rebel movements are less deserving to accomplish that overthrow than that of Jonas Savimbi. Simon Barber In 1993, Angola was...

You get what you pay for: local print media coverage of the 1998 Australian federal election *.
January 1, 1999... Journalist A: I get really angry when candidates pressure journalists to run with their press releases when they are unwilling to pay for advertising space. Candidates should pay for more advertising space. It's not fair that candidates think...

The ideology of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS): from the charity model to welfarism to social justice.
January 1, 1999... Historical literature on Australian social policy has explored a number of differing perspectives. Much analysis has focused on the Australian Labor Party/Liberal Party Left/Right ideological split as the key to understanding the policy...

Towards a feminist international political economy.
January 1, 1999... To create a feminist international political economy (IPE) we must challenge both the scope and assumptions of traditional IPE. The spheres in which women are involved in the international political economy, as well as the gendered nature of...