Government and Democracy in Australia

Government and Democracy in Australia takes the opposition bewteen politics (understood as government) and democracy as its underlying theme. It examines a variety of factors that affect politics in Australia such as globalization, the media and the internet as well as the basic aspects of Australian politics that must be addressed in a first year text.

Ian Cook is Senior Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Studies at Murdoch University.

Mary Walsh is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Government at the University of Canberra.

Jeffrey Harwood is a Research Associate at the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University of Technology.