Faculty of Arts and Education
Deakin University
Deakin's Politics and Policy postgraduate program is undertaken through coursework, but is embedded within the research culture of the Faculty of Arts and Education's School of International and Political Studies.
Students interested in undertaking a research unit may do so through completing the policy studies research unit, see handbook units details for further information.
Recent publications of Politics and Policy teaching staff are linked below (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Benner, M. and Lofgren, H. (2007) The bio-economy and the competition state: Transcending the dichotomy between coordinated and liberal market economies, New Political Science, Vol 29, No 1, pp 77-95. (181 kB)
Burdess, N. and O'Toole, K. (2004) Elections and representation in local government: A Victorian case study, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol 63, No 2, pp 66-78. (175 kB)
Lofgren, H. and de Boer, R. (2004) Pharmaceuticals in Australia: Development in regulation and governance, Social Science & Medicine, Vol 58, No 12, pp 2397-2407. (253 kB)
O'Toole, K., Wallis, A. and Mitchell, B. (2006) Local perceptions of sustainability indicators: Issues of scale and implications for management, Rural Society, Vol 16, No 1, pp 25-46. (952 kB)
O'Toole, K. (2006) Community governance in rural Victoria: Rethinking grassroots democracy?, Rural Society, Vol 16, No 3, pp 303-319. (6.74 MB)
O'Toole, K. and MacNab, K. (2006) Step we gaily on we go, heel for heel and toe for toe; community building in Scotland and Australia, Governments and Communities in Partnership Conference, Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne, 25-27 September. (328 kB)
O'Toole, K and Burdess, N. (2005) Governance at community level: Small towns in rural Victoria, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol 40, No 2, pp 239-254. (115 kB)
O'Toole, K and Burdess, N. (2004) New community governance in small rural towns: The Australian experience, Journal of Rural Studies Vol 20, No 4, pp 433-443. (232 kB)
O'Toole, K. and Macgarvey, A. (2003) Rural women and local economic development in south-west Victoria, Journal of Rural Studies, Vol 19, No 2, pp 173-186. (336 kB)
O'Toole, K. (2003) Youth participation in a rural community center: The case of south west Victoria. Rural Social Work, Vol 8, No 2, pp 14-25. (254 kB)
O'Toole, K. and Burdess, N. (2003) Municipal wards in Victoria, 1982-1999, The Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History, pp 1-12. (260 kB)
Stokes, G. (2002) Australian democracy and indigenous self-determination 1901-2001 In G. Brennan and F. Castles (eds) Australia Reshaped: Essays on Two Hundred Years of Institutional Transformation, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, pp 181-219. (462 kB)
Stokes, G. (2004) The "Australian Settlement" and Australian political thought, Australian Journal of Political Science, 39(1): pp 5-22. (120 kB)
Stokes, G. (2004) Transnational citizenship: Problems of definition, culture and democracy, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol 17, No 1, April 2004. (114 kB)
Vandenberg, A. (2006) Social-movement unionism in theory and Sweden, Social Movement Studies. (134 kB)
