Reviews: Australian

Graham Maddox, Australian Democracy in Theory and Practice, Melbourne, Longman Cheshire, 1985, pp.463, $19.95 (paper).

Bill Brugger and Dean Jaensch, Australian Politics: Theory and Practice, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1985, pp. 258 + 258. $29.95 (cloth), $15.95 (paper)

David Dunstan, Governing the Metropolis, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1984, pp. 362. $24.50 (cloth)

Stuart Harris and Geoff Taylor (eds), Resource Development and the Future of Australian Society, Canberra, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, 1982, pp.305. $14.95 (paper)

W. Ross Johnston, The Call of the Land: A History of Queensland to the Present Day, Milton, Jacaran‐da Press, 1982, pp. 229. $19.75 (cloth)

D. J. Killen, Killen: Inside Australian Politics, Brisbane, Methuen Haynes, 1985, pp. 355 $25.00 (cloth)

Murray Frazer, Jeffrey Dunstan and Philip Creed (eds), Perspectives on Organisational Change: Lessons from Education, Melbourne, Longman Cheshire, 1985, pp. 451. $29.95 (paper)

W. J. Byrt, The Framework of Consensus: Government, Business & Trade Unions, Sydney, Law Book Company, 1985, pp. 220. $17.50 (paper)

Janis Wilton and Richard Bosworth, Old Worlds and New Australia, Ringwood, Penguin, 1984, pp. 215. $8.95 (paper)

Tim Rowse, Arguing the arts: the funding of arts in Australia, Ringwood, Penguin, 1985, pp. 143. $7.95 (paper)

Russell Mathews, Fiscal equalisation in education, Canberra, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Australian National University, 1983, pp. 180. $12.00 (paper)

Constance Larmour, Labor Judge: The Life and Times of Judge Alfred William Foster, Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, 1985, pp. 286. $14.95 (paper), $29.95 (cloth)

Don Rawson and Chris Fisher (eds), Changing Industrial Law, Sydney, Croom Helm, 1984, pp.xxii + 235. $24.95 (cloth)

Douglas W. Smith and Donald W. Rawson, Trade Union Law In Australia: The Legal Status of Australian Trade Unions, Second Edition, Sydney, Butterworths, 1985, pp.xvii + 204. $37.50 (cloth)

Peter Groenewegen, Public Finance in Australia, Second Edition, Sydney, Prentice‐Hall, 1984, pp.363. $24.95 (paper)

Des Ball, J. Langtry and J. Stevenson, Defend the North, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1985, pp.104. $9.95 (paper)

H. O. Browning, 1975 Crisis, an historical view, Sydney, Hale and Iremonger, 1985, pp. 340. $14.95 (paper)

David Solomon, The People's Palace: Parliament in Modern Australia, Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1986, pp. 194. $9.50 (paper) Joan Rydon, A Federal Legislature: The Australian Commonwealth Parliament 1901–1980, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1986, pp.290. $35.00 (cloth)

Patrick O'Brien, The Liberals: Factions, Feuds and Fancies, Ringwood, Penguin, 1985, pp.238. $24.95 (cloth), $9.95 (paper)

Glen St J. Barclay. Friends in High Places: Australian‐American Diplomatic Relations since 1945, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985, pp.245. $25.00 (cloth)

Jonathan Boston, Incomes Policy in New Zealand, Wellington, Victoria University Press for the Institute of Policy Studies, 1984, pp.ix + 344. NZ $19.50 (paper)

David McGee, Parliamentary Practice in New Zealand, Wellington, Government Printer, 1985, pp.579.

Godfrey Hodgson, All Things To All Men: The False Promise of the Modern American Presidency, Penguin, rev. ed. 1984. $7.95 (paper)

Richard H. Leach, Whatever happened to urban policy? A comparative study of urban policy in Australia. Canada and the United States, Canberra, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, 1985, pp.134. $10.25 (paper)

Walker Connor, The National Question in Marxist‐Leninist Theory and Strategy, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1984, pp. 614. $62.00 (cloth), $19.00 (paper)

Owen Greene, Ian Percival and Irene Ridge, Nuclear Winter, Cambridge & Oxford, Polity Press & Basil Blackwell, 1985, pp. 216. $9.95 (paper)

Derek McDougall, Harold D. Lasswell and the Study of International Relations, Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America, 1984, pp. 370. $14.00 (paper)

Immanuel Wallerstein The Politics of The World Economy, London, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 191. $26.50 (paper)

Douglas E. Ashford, British Dogmatism and French Pragmatism: central‐local policymaking in the Welfare State, London, George Allen and Unwin, 1982, pp. 406. $75.00 (cloth)

Manning Marable, Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945–1982, London, Macmillan (Contemporary U.S. series), 1984, pp. 249. $14.95 (paper)

Christopher Ham and Michael Hill, The Policy Process in the Modern Capitalist State, Brighton, Sussex, Harvester Press, 1984, pp. 210. $14.99 (paper)

Steve Smith (ed.), International Relations: British and American Perspectives, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985, pp. xiv + 242. $49.95 (cloth)

Clive Archer, International Organizations, London, Allen & Unwin, 1983, pp. 192. $29.95 (cloth), $16.50 (paper)

Joan Edelman Spero, The Politics of International Economic Relations, Third Edition, London, Allen & Unwin, 1985, pp. 447. $18.95 (paper)

H.T. Stanbury and Thomas E. Kierans (eds), Papers on Privatization, Montreal, Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1985, pp.325. $8.00 Canadian

Arend Lijphart, Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus Government in Twenty‐One Countries, New Haven/London, Yale University Press, 1984, pp.229. US$6.95 (paper)

Michael Sandel (ed.), Liberalism and Its Critics, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1984, pp. 272. $45.00 (cloth), $17.95 (paper)

Vernon Bogdanor, What is Proportional Representation? Oxford, Martin Robertson, 1984, pp. 164. $39.95 (cloth), $9.95 (paper)

Enid Lakeman, Power to Elect: The Case for Proportional Representation, London, Heinemann, 1982, pp. 178. £6.95 (paper)

Graham Little, Political Ensembles: A Psychosocial Approach to Politics and Leadership, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985, pp. 223. $25.00 (cloth)

Claus Offe, Contradictions of the Welfare State, edited by John Keane, London, Hutchinson, 1984, pp. 310. $18.95 (paper)

John Keane, Public Life and Late Capitalism: toward a socialist theory of democracy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 340. $66.50 (cloth)

Jill Julius Matthews, Good and Mad Women: The Historical Construction of Femininity in Twentieth Century Australia, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1984, pp.223. $9.95 (paper)

Marilyn Waring, Women, Power and Politics, Wellington, Unwin Paperbacks & Port Nicholson Press, 1985, pp.121. $9.95 (paper)

Jacqueline Goodnow and Carole Pateman (eds), for the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Women, Social Science and Public Policy, Sydney, George Allen and Unwin, 1985, pp. 162. $29.95 (cloth), $14.95 (paper)

Jane Lewis, Women in England 1870–1950, Brighton, Wheatsheaf Books, 1984, pp.240. $16.50 (paper)

Janet Siltanen and Michelle Stanworth. (eds), Women and the Public Sphere: A critique of sociology and politics, London, Hutchinson, 1984, pp.251. $19.95 (paper)

Susan Magarey, Unbridling The Tongues of Women: A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence, Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, 1985, pp. 239. $14.95 (paper)     

Engagement in a Public Forum: Knowledge,Action, and Cosmopolitanism

Facing challenges to the civic purpose of higher education, some scholars and administrators turn to the rhetoric of engagement. Simultaneously, the political philosophy of cosmopolitanism has gained intellectual favor, advocating openness to the lived experiences of distant others. We articulate linkages between these two discourses in an extended case study, finding that a cosmopolitan ethos of engagement in a rural context can improve (1) understanding among people ordinarily separated by spatialized social‐ecological differences, (2) prospects for longer term environmental sustainability, and (3) the visionary potential of collaborative inquiry. Despite globalization of food systems and neoliberal shifts in fishery management, an annual fisheries forum facilitates coalitions that overcome dichotomies between technocratic and local knowledge, extending benefits to fishing communities, academia, and public policy. Iterative and loosely structured capacity building expands informally through affective processes of recognition and care, as decentralized leadership supports collective mobilization toward alternate futures.     

The Mega-Site of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville,Spain): Debating Settlement Form,Monumentality and Aggregation in Southern Iberian Copper Age Societies

Study of the Iberian Copper Age has experienced a remarkable upheaval in the last two decades. The discovery in central and southwestern Iberia of a significant number of ditched enclosures, a site type almost unknown in this region until the mid 1990s, has opened up new lines of research. Particularly interesting is the existence of some exceptionally large sites. Largest of all is Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain), covering an area of 450 ha and featuring several outstanding megalithic monuments, thousands of pits and material assemblages revealing middle and long distance contacts. In this paper we discuss the implications of the Valencina mega-site for the study of settlement variability, monumentality and population aggregation as key phenomena in the rise in social complexity in Copper Age Iberia.     

Presidential elections and Europe: the 2012 game-changer

Abstract

As well as marking 60 years since the signature of the Treaty of Rome, 2017 will see the 10th presidential election of France’s Fifth Republic. The overlap between the question of Europe and the election to France’s highest office provides the framework for this article to explore the development of the European debate in France. Prior to 2012, and despite the increasing and undeniable salience of it for French domestic concerns, the question of Europe is widely considered to have been a secondary issue in presidential elections. Focusing in particular on the period since the pivotal debate and referendum on the Maastricht Treaty and the intervening transition from ‘permissive consensus’ to ‘constraining dissensus’, this article will explain how and why Europe has seemingly defied logic to remain on the margins of successive election campaigns, before presenting the 2012 presidential elections as a game-changer on how the question of Europe featured. The conclusion offers a discussion on the ramifications for future presidential elections, starting with that of 2017.     

For the Community: Scottish Historical Archaeology and the Politics of Land Reform

In Scotland, land reform is, historically and still today, a defining political issue and a subject of debate. Central to this debate are different ideological understandings of the rural past. In this paper, I discuss the nature of the Scottish land question and explore several of the main—sometimes complementary, sometimes conflicting—ideologies concerning land, as put forward or supported by different constituencies: politicians; landowners; crofters; Scots more generally; and members of the Scottish diaspora. I consider the histories to which these ideologies relate and seek to locate the historical archaeology of rural Scotland in its political and social contexts.