Book notes

Paul Boreham, Alec Pemberton and Paul Wilson, (eds.), The Professions in Australia, A Critical Appraisal. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1976, pp. 290 + vii, $8.50, $12.95 cloth.

Goldstein, Ray, and Alley, Rod, (eds.), Labour in Power: Promise and Performance, Price Milburn for New Zealand University Press, Wellington, 1975, pp. 200, $3.96.     

Books in brief

Books—Overseas Texts

Alexander Passerin d'Entreves: The Notion of the State: an introduction to Political Theory, Oxford University Press, London, 1967, pp. 233, $5.80.

Robert A. Dahl and Deane E. Neubauer, eds.: Readings in Modern Political Analysis, Prentice‐Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1968, pp. 424, $5.00.

Aaron Wildavsky, ed.: American Federalism in Perspective, Little Brown, Boston, 1967, pp. 277, $4.35 (paperback).

Edgar Litt, ed.: The Political Imagination, Scott, Foresman & Co., Glenview, 111., 1966, pp. 532, $U.S.4.25.

H. V. Wiseman: Political Systems: Some Sociological Approaches, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1966, pp. 254, $5.65; David Easton, ed.: Varieties of Political Theory, Prentice‐Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1966, pp. 154, $7.00; James C. Charlesworth, ed.: Contemporary Political Analysis, Collier‐Macmillan, London, 1967, pp. 380, $4.60 (paperback); Eugene J. Meehan: Contemporary Political Thought, Dorsey Press, Homewood. 111., 1967, pp. 437, $7.40; W. J. M. Mackenzie: Politics and Social Science, Pelican, pp. 424, 75c; Oran R. Young: Systems of Political Science, Prentice‐Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1968, pp. 113, $2.20 (paperback); William C. Mitchell: Sociological Analysis and Politics: The Theories of Talcott Parsons, Prentice‐Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1967, pp. 222, $7.30; Roy E. Jones: The Functional Analysis of Politics: an introductory discussion, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1967, pp. 101, $1.30 (paperback).

Inis L. Claude, Jr.: The Changing United Nations, Random House, New York, 1967, pp. 140, $2.25.

Samuel Hendel and Randolph L. Braham, eds.: The USSR After 50 Years: Promise and Reality, Knopf, New York, 1967, pp. 299 + vi, $4.55.

Ernest Barker: Reflections on Government, Oxford University Press, London, 1967, pp. 424 + xvii, $2.15.

Alfred G. Meyer: Communism, 3rd ed., Random House, New York, 1967, pp. 241, $2.25.

Isaac Deutscher: The Unfinished Revolution: Russia 1917–1967, Oxford University Press, London, 1967, pp. 115, $3.60.

Karl Jaspers: The Future of Germany, translated and edited by E. B. Ashton, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1967, pp. 173, $U.S.4.95.

Martin Gilbert and Richard Gott: The Appeasers, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1967, pp. 444 ‐+‐ xvi, $3.85 paperback, $7.80 bound.

Lewis J. Edinger, ed.: Political Leadership in Industrialized Societies, John Wiley, N.Y., 1967, pp. 376, $4.95.

Books—Australian

Alan Birch and David S. Macmillan, eds.: Wealth and Progress, Studies in Australian Business History, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1967, pp. 190, $4.25.

M. I. Jennings, comp. and ed.: Federation: A collection of contemporary documents. Hill of Content Archive Series, Melbourne, 1967, $3.75.

J. R. Odgers: Australian Senate Practice, 3rd ed., Government Printer, Canberra, 1967, pp. 511 + xiv, $4.50.

Margot Beever and F. B. Smith, comps.: Historical Studies: Selected Articles, Second Series, Melbourne University Press, 1967, pp. 293 + x, $2.30 (paperback).

T. R. Luscombe: Builders and Crusaders: Prominent Catholics in Australian History, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1967, pp. 453, $4.50.

Craig McGregor: People, Politics and Pop: Australians in the Sixties, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1968, pp. 221, $1.50.

Zelman Cowen: Isaac Isaacs, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1967, pp. 261 + xiii, $6.00.

Allan Dalziel: Evatt the Enigma, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1967, pp. 186, $5.50.

Tom Mann's Memoirs, with a Preface by Ken Coates, Macgibbon & Kee, London, 1967, pp. 278 + xiv, $5.45.

Arthur Manning: Larger than Life: The Story of Eric Baume, A. H. and A. W. Reed, Sydney, 1967, pp. 184, $3.25.

Cyril Pearl: Morrison of Peking, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1967, pp. 431, $6.95.

Peter Coleman and Les Tanner: Cartoons of Australian History, Thomas Nelson (Australia), Melbourne, 1967, pp. 195, $3.95.

A Guide to Book Contracts, published for The Australian Society of Authors by The Australasian Book Society, Sydney, 1967, pp. 49, $2.10.

Pamphlets

Royal Institute of Public Administration, Victorian Regional Group, Bibliography of Administrative History, Melbourne, 1966, pp. 60, roneoed. $1.00 + postage from: Mr. K. R. Jones, Royal Institute of Public Administration, 4 Bolinda Street, Bentleigh, S.E.14, Victoria.

R. L. Wettenhall: Evolution of a Departmental System: A Tasmanian Commentary, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1967, pp. 50. 50c and postage, from the Union Bookroom, University of Tasmania.

Victorian Labor College, Jubilee 1917–1967, V.L.C., Melbourne, 1967, pp. 30. 30c + postage, from Victorian Labor College, Box 39, Trades Hall, Melbourne 3001.

Council for Civil Liberties: If you are arrested, C.C.L., Sydney, 1968, pp. 14, 20c.

J. M. Geraghty: The Citizen and the Police, Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, P.O. Box 33, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, 4067; 1967, pp. 16, 10c + 5c postage.

The Australian League of Rights: Objectives, History, Organisation, Journals, Basic Books, Melbourne, n.d. [1968?], pp. 16, 20c.

E. W. Peters, M.P.: A Financial Invasion: The Take‐Over of Australia (Comments on Overseas Capital Inflow), Gale Press, 342 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, 1967, pp. 16, 25c posted.

Sydney University Liberal Club: Forgotten People, Sydney, 1967, pp. 24, 20c + postage.

J. D. B. Miller: Sir Winston Churchill and the Commonwealth of Nations, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1967, pp. 28, 75c.

Julius Stone: The Middle East Under Cease‐Fire, Sydney, 1967, pp. 16.

K. S. Cunningham: The Social Science Research Council of Australia: 1942–1952, S.S.R.C.A., Canberra, 1967, pp. 34. Distributor: A.N.U. Press. 90c.

D. E. Butler: Political Television, A.N.U., Canberra, 1967, pp. 14. Available free of charge from School of Political Science, University of N.S.W., Kensington, N.S.W. 2033.     

Books in brief

Books

Gerald E. Caiden, The Commonwealth Bureaucracy, Melbourne University Press, pp. 443 + xvi, $8.50.

Denis Kenny, The Catholic Church and Freedom: The Vatican Council and Some Modern Issues, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia 1967, pp. 236, $4.00.

John H. Fenton, People and Parties in Politics, Scott, Foresman, Glenview, Ill., 1966, pp. 147, $U.S.3.95.

Bradbury Seasholes, Voting, Interest Groups, and Parties, Scott, Foresman, Glenview, Ill., 1966, pp. 136, $U.S.2.50.

P. H. Lane, An Introduction to Australian Constitutional Law, Law Book Co., Sydney 1967, pp. 131, $7.50.

P. E. Joske, Australian Federal Government, Butterworths, Sydney 1967, pp. 240, $7.75.

Raymond J. O'Dea, A Guide to Industrial Relations in Australia,West Publishing Corporation, Sydney 1967, pp. 119, $3.00.

J. E. Isaac and G. W. Ford, eds., Australian Labour Economics: Readings, Sun Books, Melbourne 1967, pp. 452, $3.50.

D. B. Williams, ed., Agriculture in the Australian Economy, Sydney University Press 1967, pp. 349, $6.00.

Edward C. Dreyer and Walter A. Rosenbaum, eds., Political Opinion and Electoral Behaviour: Essays and Studies, Wadsworth Publishing Co., Belmont, California, 1966, pp. 495, $4.95.

Lewis A. Coser, ed., Political Sociology: Selected Essays, Harper & Row, New York 1967, pp. 274, $2.88.

Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson, London 1967, pp. 85, $1.80.

William E. Griffith, ed., Communism in Europe: Continuity, Change, and the Sino‐Soviet Dispute, 2 vols., pp. 406, 439.

Robert H. McNeal, ed., International Relations Among Communists, Prentice‐Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1967, pp. 182, $U.S.2.45.

Australian Institute of Political Science, Communism in Asia: A Threat to Australia? ed. John Wilkes, Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1967, pp. 206, $1.95.

G. F. Trevallyn Jones, Saw‐Pitt Wharton: The political career from 1640 to 1691 of Philip, fourth Lord Wharton, Sydney University Press 1967, pp. 300, $5.00.

Pamphlets

John S. Baker, The Right to Strike and the White Collar Worker, Morgan Publications, Sydney 1967, pp. 42, 30c.

Catholics for Peace, Forum: Catholics, War, Vietnam, pp. 36, Sydney 1967, 40c + 10c postage.     

Natural and supernatural virtues in the thirteenth century: the case of Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls

This article argues that Marguerite Porete’s seemingly unorthodox presentation of the virtues in the Mirror of Simple Souls is not a critique of scholastic learning, but in fact reflects the thirteenth-century university discourse on this topic. The rediscovery of Aristotelian thought in this period led to the redefinition of the standard Augustinian definition of virtue as being divinely infused. Philip the Chancellor’s discussion of cardinal virtues in particular prompted thinkers to distinguish between natural and supernatural virtues. It is contended that the Soul’s abandonment of the virtues should not be read as a rejection of the virtues, but rather as the affirmation that only supernatural virtues lead to God. A consideration of how Godfrey of Fontaines, theologian and reader of the Mirror, understands the virtues confirms the basic orthodoxy of Marguerite Porete’s position, lending further support to the argument that the Mirror echoes sophisticated scholastic ideas.     

Do Lawyers Get More Votes?

ABSTRACT

In many western democracies, law has been the dominant occupational background of politicians. This raises the question whether lawyers get more votes when they run for election compared to non-lawyers. To our knowledge, this question has not been examined empirically over an extended period of time. Our study aims to fill this lacuna. We collected longitudinal data about the careers of all candidates in Canadian federal elections from 1921 to 2015. Our dataset is composed of about 32,000 observations including the occupation and electoral performance of every candidate who ran for office. Our analysis shows that lawyers do get more votes but that their personal electoral boost is very small.