Only in Australia : the history, politics, and economics of Australian exceptionalism / edited by William O. Coleman
- Bib ID:
- 7130469
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Description:
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016
- xiii, 320 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780198753254 (hardback)
- 019875325X (hardback)
- Summary:
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POLITICS & GOVERNMENT. AUSTRALIAN. 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.
- Notes:
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- "Almost all the chapters of this book had their genesis in a one-day conference, 'The Australian Sonderweg: Between Choice, Chance and Destiny', held in 2014 on the Fremantle Campus of the University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA)"--Acknowlegements.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Sheep and wool
- Politics and Government - Political parties - Liberal Party / National Party
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Grain
- Employment - Labour market
- Economic sectors - Manufacturing
- Economic sectors - Financial services
- Politics and Government - Elections
- Aged - Retirement income
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation
- History - Political
- Mining industry - Gold
- Politics and Government - Political action - Civil rights
- Socioeconomic conditions
- History - Economic
- Economics - Taxation
- Politics and Government - Political parties - Australian Labor Party
- Settlement and contacts - Ethnic groups, immigration and multiculturalism
- Religions - Christianity
- Employment - Conditions - Industrial relations - Trade unions
- Occupations - Public servants
- Australia -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
- Australia -- Politics and government -- Congresses
- United States (USA)
- Australia
- Japan
- Germany
- New Zealand (NZ)
- France
- South Australia (SA)
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Coleman, William Oliver, 1959-, editor
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
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