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  • Neighbours

    Australia and the Pacific

    by Joanne Wallis, Jack Corbett ...
    A new vision for Australia’s relationship with the PacificAustralia has a long history in the Pacific. Many Australians might have forgotten it, but the region has not forgotten us.This book provides a new vision of the way Australia might relate to its Pacific neighbours. It replaces amnesia with storytelling that emphasises common ancestors, interests and language. It replaces Australian ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Memory and Institutional Amnesia in Government

    by Alastair Stark, Hridesh Gajurel, Jack Corbett, Dennis C. Grube, Heather Lovell, Rodney J. Scott ...
    Memory and Institutional Amnesia in Government examines the way in which government suffers from institutional amnesia, meaning that it cannot hold or use memory of the past. Consequently, a great deal of important knowledge is erased and those who work in government find themselves repeating the mistakes of the past. The book explores these issues through a comparison of the public services of ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • Sustaining Development in Small Islands

    Climate Change, Geopolitical Security, and the Permissive Liberal Order

    by Matthew Louis Bishop, Rachid Bouhia, Salā George Carter, Jack Corbett, Courtney Lindsay, Michelle Scobie, Emily Wilkinson ...
    Series series Elements in Earth System Governance
    The viability of small island developing states (SIDS) is threatened by three distinct processes – a backlash against globalisation; rising geopolitical competition between powers; and accelerating climate change – which are pulling at the threads binding the liberal international order together. We suggest that this order has been kinder to SIDS than is often acknowledged because its underpinning ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Democracy in Small States

    Persisting Against All Odds

    by Jack Corbett, Wouter Veenendaal ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Democratization
    Populism and the personalization of politics appears to be threatening the existence of democracy as we know it all over the world. It is now more important than ever to understand the history of this form of regime: why it has thrives and fails. But, existing studies are limited by their focus on a few large and predominately rich states. This book takes the opposite approach: it investigates how ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Statehood à la Carte in the Caribbean and the Pacific

    Secession, Regionalism, and Postcolonial Politics

    by Jack Corbett ...
    This book explains how leaders in the Caribbean and Pacific regions balance the autonomy-viability dilemma of postcolonial statehood - that political self-determination is a hollow achievement unless it is accompanied by economic development - by practising statehood à la carte. Previous research has focused on the pursuit of decolonial self-determination through and above the nation state, via ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • International Organizations and Small States

    Participation, Legitimacy and Vulnerability

    by Jack Corbett, Xu Yi-chong, Patrick Weller ...
    International Organizations (IOs) are vital institutions in world politics in which cross-border issues can be discussed and global problems managed.This path-breaking book shows the efforts that small states have made to participate more fully in IO activities. It draws attention to the challenges created by widened participation in IOs and develops an original model of the dilemmas that both IOs ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Institutional Memory as Storytelling

    How Networked Government Remembers

    by Jack Corbett, Dennis Christian Grube, Heather Caroline Lovell, Rodney James Scott ...
    Series series Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration
    How do bureaucracies remember? The conventional view is that institutional memory is static and singular, the sum of recorded files and learned procedures. There is a growing body of scholarship that suggests contemporary bureaucracies are failing at this core task. This Element argues that this diagnosis misses that memories are essentially dynamic stories. They reside with people and are thus ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Art and Craft of Comparison

    by John Boswell, Jack Corbett, R. A. W. Rhodes ...
    Series series Strategies for Social Inquiry
    Is it possible to compare French presidential politics with village leadership in rural India? Most social scientists are united in thinking such unlikely juxtapositions are not feasible. Boswell, Corbett and Rhodes argue that they are possible. This book explains why and how. It is a call to arms for interpretivists to embrace creatively comparative work. As well as explaining, defending and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Australia's Foreign Aid Dilemma

    Humanitarian aspirations confront democratic legitimacy

    by Jack Corbett ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    The Australian aid program faces a fundamental dilemma: how, in the absence of deep popular support, should it generate the political legitimacy required to safeguard its budget and administering institution?Australia’s Foreign Aid Dilemma tells the story of the actors who have grappled with this question over 40 years. It draws on extensive interviews and archival material to uncover how 'court ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Extreme Guns and Babes for an Adult World

    by Jack Corbett ...
    What separates "Extreme Guns and Babes for an Adult World" from all the other books about guns is it delivers exciting in-depth reviews of the most influential guns and weapons of the world with cutting edge adult photography of over 26 exotic dancers, many of whom are well known feature entertainers. Miss Nude World of 2004--she's here. And so is the M-1 Garand, the 454 Casull, the Browning 50 ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • The Voice to Parliament Handbook

    All the Detail You Need

    by Thomas Mayo, Kerry O'Brien ...
    The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but want to better understand what a Voice to Parliament actually means.'We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.' These words from the Uluru Statement from the Heart are a heartfelt ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Boyer Lectures 2012: The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom

    by Marcia Langton ...
    Professor Marcia Langton's 2012 Boyer Lectures discuss the dependency of Aboriginal businesses and not-for-profit corporations on the resources industry and their resultant vulnerability to economic downturns.'My aim with the 53rd Boyer Lectures has been to inject new ideas and new ways of thinking about the status of Indigenous people in Australia and about the impact of the mining boom in the ... Read more

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