This original account of the role of philosophy and methodology in political science gets
back to the basics of studying politics. Cutting through long-standing controversies across …

There are many different accounts of the nature of social or political power, and almost as
many of the concept of freedom. I have published two books and many articles on power …

In Westminster parliamentary democracies like Australia, Canada, and New Zealand,
research has found that cabinet composition is driven mainly by longstanding norms and …

This chapter outlines the process of ministerial selection in Israel, describing those who are
selected and the circumstances under which they are de-selected, or sacked, from the …

This thesis builds on quantitative British politics scholarship with four papers unified by a
strong emphasis on positivist theory, research design and cutting edge statistical …

The purpose of this article is to examine the psychological elements of the ideology of
members of the major parties in the Australian federal parliament using computational …

Australia consisted of a series of self-governing British colonies from the 1850s until
federation in 1901. The 1901 constitution establishing the Commonwealth of Australia was …

There are two purposes of this paper. The first is to see whether parliamentary speech can
be used to classify Australian federal parliamentarians from the main two political groups …