The Policy Space

Auditor-General Should Audit Annual Budget

Are We becoming Digital Slaves? Why Online 'Privacy' is a Misnomer.

Deteriorating Finances of the ACT

ACT Public Hospitals Hit by Predicted Health Tsunami

Signs of an Unsafe ACT Hospital System for Patients as well as Practitioners

Le Brexit? Bof! French attitudes to the UK's departure

Lessons from the 2018-19 Suburban Land Agency annual report.

"Why Should I Go to School if You Won't Listen to the Educated" - why letting ignorance trump knowledge is a big problem for democracy.

Heavy Lifting on Tax Reform

Land Supply and Demand: Wrong to declare land supply meets demand.

Unsustainable Reliance on Land Revenues

Why People Need the Dark Web, Whether They Want It or Not

Putting the 'Public' Back into 'Public Service': What Works?

The Polls May Have Been Off, but the Australian Federal Election Exposed a Growing Geographical and "Chattering" Divide

To Rebuild Trust in Politics, we Need to Place Trust in Citizens

Post-Democracy: Does Populism have a Place in Britain?

Why Landcare is Important in this Election

Policies for Threatened Species and a "New Deal for Nature"

How Much Behavioural Conditionality is Too Much?

Democracy of the Few

France-Italy: Behind the Crisis Lies a Deeper Rift over Europe

In Comparative League Tables of Liberal Democracies the UK's Democracy is Judged to be First Division, but not Premier League

A New Geological Epoch Demands a New Politics

Silencing Australian Civil Society: the Howard Legacy and the Abbott Government's Remaking of Australian Democracy

Introducing Democracy 2025 - Bridging the Trust Divide

Trust and Democracy in Australia - Democratic Decline and Renewal

A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma: Exploring Political Trust

How a Candidate's Looks may be Swinging your Vote (without you even realising it)

What is in a Click?

A New Deal for Nature: Time for the UN to Create a 'Living Framework' to Tackle Biodiversity Loss

Micro-institutions in Liberal Democracies: what they are and why they matter

How Women Work Together in Masculinised Parliaments to Represent the Interests of Women

Four Policy Proposals to Improve Disabled People's Employment and Pay

Islamic Divorce in The English Courts: Human Rights and Sharia Law

Media Coverage of The Uk's Female Prime Ministers Has Become More Gendered from Thatcher to May

Five Things We Know from Public Sector Contestability Reviews

Digital Campaigning and The Getup Effect in Election 2016

Western Civilisation or Social Engineering?

A Tale of Two Mayos: Community Perspectives on the 2018 Mayo By-election

Barriers to Digital Diplomacy: Why Are Governments Slow in Adopting Technology?

The Data Imaginary: Six Reasons Why Data Analytics Have Become So Powerful

Foreign Donations and Beyond

A Politics of Disillusionment?

Labour Live - and Kicking? Do Music Festivals Increase Youth Turnout at Election Time?

Effective Citizen Participation and Quality of Local Democracy: Assessing the Post-Electoral Local Governance in Nepal

Integrating the Next Generation: How School Composition Affects Inter-Ethnic Attitudes

Crisis in the Eye of Beholder: Contingency and Perplexity Along the Balkan Migration Route

Doing With, Rather Than Doing To- Are We All Boundary Spanners Now?

Does it Really Matter if We Call Australian Politics "Semi-Parliamentary"?

Public Administration Privatised

Semi-Parliamentary Government, in Australia and Beyond

The Nursing and Midwifery Codes of Conduct: Privilege, Prejudice and the Indigenous Citizen

We are Entitled to Gender Equality - Already

Why 'Hate Speech' and 'Hate Preachers' are Distinct Phenomena

Is Civic Education the Answer to Populism?

Is the EU Policy Project Failing?

Election Trolling and Foreign Influence Campaigns

Assessing the US retreat from the Paris Agreement: backtracking to Kyoto?

EU Citizens in Britain are Already Being Stigmatised: and it's Likely to Get Worse

Smart Councils: the Evolution of Technology in Local Government

Knowledge for Peace - Bringing Research, Policy and Practice Together

Dual Citizenship: Make a Date with Democracy and Let the Public Decide

The Origins, Impact and Significance of 'Wicked Problems'

The Urgent Need for Northern Territory Reform

The Future of Caribbean Sugar will Depend on the Region's Capacity for Cooperation

Women Demand Better Access to Truth, Justice and Reparations in Sri Lanka

Religion is Not What it Used to Be: Consumerism, Neoliberalism, and the Global Reshaping of Religion

Building a Democracy: Psychological Considerations for Design of Political Spaces

Is Any Job Really Better than No Job At All?

The EU Must be Involved in the Crisis in Catalonia

The Missed Opportunity to Diffuse the Conflict with Catalonia

The Ideal PhD Researcher has No Baggage

What Gets Published? The Line between Free Speech and Harm

Scots Are Not Becoming More Conservative: Three Factors Behind the Tory 'Revival' in North East Scotland

How Bad will Brexit Really Be for the UK?

The Plumage and the Bird: We Need to Reappraise what is 'Essential' and what 'Superfluous' in Political Life

Interview with Julia Gillard: It is in Everybody's Interest to Make Sure that we are Educating Every Child

There are at Least 2,234 Expressions of 'Democracy' - and the Less Common Versions can Teach us a Lot

What the Development of Prostitution Policy tells us about how Gender is Understood in Britain

Don't Mention the "Constitutional Crisis!"

Ongoing Problems within the Greens is a Warning to all Parties

North Korea: Challenges and Further Considerations

Democracy in the Grip of Neoliberalism and Populism: Can the Young Save Democracy?

Yes, Women Too. A Glimpse at Female Terrorism

Where Next for Aid? Perspectives from Developing Countries

War is Not the Only Violence Shaping Women's Experiences in Iraq

Contrary to Popular Opinion, there is no Populist Upsurge in Britain

A Year Since the UK Voted to Take Back Control - but Control of What?

How Weak Governance Stopped Labour Winning the General Election

Strange Bedfellows? The Ideological Migration of UKIP voters to Labour in the 2017 General Election

Should Christians Be Anarchists?

How Europe and America Lost Turkey

Electoral Institutions Shape the Nature of Campaigns

A Human Right to Bullshit?

Arab Publics Continue to See Women as Second-Class Citizens

From Antagonistic to Agonistic Memory: Should the Statues Fall?

UK International Development Policy post Brexit?

What's Left of the Left?

The Media, Euroscepticism and the Debate about Europe

Global Supply Chains and Labor Rights: Any Reasons for Optimism?

The Hard Cases: Public Reactions to International Law

Let's Talk about Trust - Deliberation in a Time of Divisive Politics

Myths of Medicare and Medicaid

What Holds a Democracy Together - Political Parties, or the Party System itself?

The Benefits of Simplifying the Child Care Subsidy System

Who will campaign in the UK 2017 snap election? Hints from party members and supporters activism during GE2015

Is There Such a Thing as Asian Culture?

Panicking About Terrorism?

Beware of those who use 'the people' to drive through Brexit

Post-Referendum Britain: Hopeful or Uncertain?

The TPP is Dead, Long Live the TPP

The Scottish and UK governments should beware the Ides of March

Replace Corporate Profits Tax with a Capitalized Value Tax

Whose National Interest Is It Anyway? Theresa May, Brexit and the Performance of UK Grand Strategy

The Domestic Cost of Brexit

Taming the Tiger: peaceful and violent protest and the repressive responses of government

Capitalist Moral Economy in Africa

Difficulties in developing marriage policies

Online identity: funny, female, or faking it?

Do warnings work?

A Window into Bannon's Thinking

Europeanisation - are we aware what is happening?

Piecing together the global climate finance system

Promoting peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Trump's populist leadership

Who's afraid of identity politics?

Islam as a political force: more than belief

Why political scientists should study anti-politics

To really 'take back control', democracies must reclaim power over the production of money

Why Politics Matters 2: electric boogaloo

Citizenship, democracy and the political determinants of indigenous health

TRUMP TOO- the road ahead?

TRUMP WON - What happened?

Trump Trumps Democracy - lessons from a democratic paradox for Australia

Seventy years of wailing, forty years of shepherding and thirty years since the failed 'Irish solution'

Beyond shared values: Reassessing the Australia-US alliance

US Presidential Elections: The Death of the Median Voter

The rise of the social sciences and what it can offer to policymakers

The Emotional Style of Populist Politics

Why has Trump succeeded where others would have failed?

Why is the US Green Party so irrelevant?

Law Officers, Lies and Video Tape

When is a democratic innovation not a democratic innovation? The populist challenge in Australia.

Jeremy Corbyn and personality politics

The 'Uberisation' of work is driving people to co-operatives

The Next American President and the Prospects for the Rise of an Anti-Globalisation Regime

What makes participatory processes democratic? From external to internal inclusion

The Decline of Policy Mandates

What animal could a democracy be? Ape, fox, lion...how about jellyfish?

Health Policy in Australia- now, then, and forever?

Brexit: Over and out

How the new Senate voting system works

Will an incoming government boost Australia's climate aid?

How did it come to a Brexit? Anti-politics and UKIP's effects on the EU referendum

Epitaph for a political chancer: Cameron's fate exemplifies the inability of UK elites to resolve long-run crises

Making 'Better Regulation'

How to improve research training in Australia - give industry placements to PhD students

Obama's Middle Eastern policy - a recipe for success or disaster...?!

From Abbott to Turnbull: A New Direction?

Many young people aren't enrolled to vote - but are we asking them the wrong question?

Leaders' Debate: Round 1

Why are new Australians our greatest champions of democratic values?

Enough is enough! Why Grey Australians no longer trust their politicians

Advance Australia Fair? Not for Indigenous Australian Citizens

Are box-ticking, scorecards and listing really a foundation for good environmental policy?

Bridging the Gap: why deliberative democracy needs theorists and practitioners to work together

NATSEM BUDGET ANALYSIS 2016: An Enterprise Budget in Times of Mistrust

Not the only small island territory with aspirations for self-government!

NATSEM BUDGET: reflections on the 2016/17 federal budget

NATSEM BUDGET 2016: The Political Budget

NATSEM BUDGET 2016: What did the Treasurer say? (post 2016 budget)

NATSEM BUDGET 2016: The Budget Getting Nowhere Fast

NATSEM BUDGET 2016: What did the Treasurer say?

NATSEM BUDGET 2016: Tax Scales - how can we improve the structure of Australia's personal income tax system?

NATSEM BUDGET 2016: Who do you trust to run the country?

NATSEM BUDGET 2016: towards digital-era governance?

NATSEM BUDGET 2016: STINMOD+ Incomes

NATSEM BUDGET 2016: Budget Politics

NATSEM BUDGET 2016: The budget that launches an election

NATSEM BUDGET 2016: Will Budget 2016 deliver a new deal for Australian cities?

Barriers and Motivations for Postgraduates to Pursue a Career in Australian Political Science

Income Taxation, Schools, Hospitals and Federalism

Reforming the Labor Party

Is the time for playing games over, or has it just begun? Turnbull's double dissolution election is a risky strategy.

The proposed Senate voting change will hurt Australian democracy

Why the sharing economy could have a hard landing in Australia

Attacking the roots of inequality: a sharing economy and how to achieve it

The Australian greens: from activism to Australia's third party

What can we learn from internal migration in Indonesia?

Turkey's other 'Gezi' moment

The Red Elephants- a look at India's communist guerilla group

How stable is the Liberal party?

New forms of political participation: what's new, if anything?

Tories and Labour clearly opposed on UK membership in the EU, but this pales in comparison to intraparty tensions on the issue

Using 'managerial' approaches in universities is consistent with maintaining academic freedom

Governance (is) for the birds.

How to explain the intensity of contemporary discontent with politics

How to write a blogpost from your journal article in eleven easy steps.

Fire and ashes: success and failure in politics

Punk Political Science - Worldmaking, Worldbreaking and Living on the Edge

Non-human Democracy: our political vocabulary has no room for animals

Malcolm in the Middle: The Rise of an Anti-Politician?

A Lesson in Democracy...from Slime Moulds

Social Media and Political Campaigning: A Look at the 2015 UK General Election Campaign

Being Trained by Twitter Stats: Social Media and the Expanding Ways we are Measured in Everyday Life

Climate Power to the People? Bottom-up Energy Policy and Community Renewables

Climate Finance at the Paris Summit: Sharing the Global Effort More Fairly

Reshaping the Politics of Contemporary Democracies: Cosmopolitan versus Shrinking Dynamics

Shorten's Plan to Lower the Voting Age Could Help Increase Political Engagement

Don't Rush In, Think About the Bigger Picture

Trust In Thy Leader: Is 'Washminster' Apt for the Australian Public Service?

Is Commissioning the Answer to Public Service Reform?

Doctor? Please help me! I've watched House of Cards and I think I'm sick! I have ...cynicism!

TPP revealed: at last we have the details - and a democratic deficit to be fixed

The Ethics of the Arms Trade

Negativity Towards Politics: a By-Product of a Failure in Moral Accounting?

Britain's In-Out Referendum: What's Really Going On?

Enterprise Contracts Detract from Productivity Commission Mission to Improve Fair Work

Taking the 'High Road'

"We're not going to do it like Victoria"- Policy Learning from Other Places when Things Don't Go to Plan

Destined for Democracy? Labour Markets and Political Change in Colonial British America

Reviewing Queensland's Emergency Management Operations- Relationships Matter.

Why the TPP is such a Big Deal

American Foreign Policy with Hillary at the Helm

Governance by Metrics

Time to Reflect on the Nature of the EU in the Light of the Greek Crisis?

Understanding Public Hybrids

Deliberative Democracy: an Opportunity for Consumer Engagement in the Energy Sector

Why No One is God When it Comes to Making Policy: the Hidden Maturity of Ministerial Views on Public Input

The Mainstreaming of Euroscepticism in Times of Crisis

The Importance of Continuous Sense Making in Crisis Management: The Case of the Euro Crisis

Five Ways to Reform State Taxes

China-led Development Policy in Asia

Policy Analysis in Australia- Complexities, Arenas and Challenges

The Future of Aged Care in Australia: A Call for Evidence Based Policy

Why the International Criminal Court is Going OK.

How Do Australians Think About Political Finance? As 'Partisans' or as 'Skeptics'?

What Can Ontario Midwives Tell Us About Policy Processes?

Governance, Social Licence and the Rise of Environmental NGOs in Australia

Humanitarian Paradigm Shift on Nuclear Weapons Policy or Hot Air?

Evidence-Based Policy Making: Official Policy Perspectives on Creating and Sustaining Effective Links Between Academic and Policy Worlds

Ideas, Institutions, and Tax Policy in the US and the UK

To Punish and to Reward

The Watchdogs of 'Washminster' - Parliamentary Scrutiny of Ministerial Appointments in the UK

Sausages and Shortcuts: How Australians Decide their Vote

What Can the Social Inclusion Agenda Tell Us About Creating Joined Up Government?

Opening Up Local Government Spending in the UK: It's Complicated

New UN Rules put the Spotlight on Climate Laggards to Lift their Game

Citizenship Policies and Politics in European Union Member States

To Call or Not to Call an Early Election

From Sovereignty in Australia to Australian Sovereignty

Risky Business: Finding the Balance Between Financial Stability and Risk

No Grexit: Why Greece Stayed in the Eurozone

Twitter Tyrants: The Surprising Ways Social Media is Helping Dictators

New Experimental Evidence on Political Trust

Don't Knock Clickivism: It Represents the Political Participation Aspirations of the Modern Citizen

Australian Federal Budget Speeches, and Why You Should Care About Them

Court Access is a Fundamental Civil Right: Keeping it in Reach of all Requires New Thinking

Face to Face(book): Social Media, Political Campaigning and the Unbearable Lightness of Being There

Migrants into Members: Social Rights, Civic Requirements, and Citizenship in Western Europe

Australia's Twin Track Diplomacy

Misinformation and Democratic Politics

Seeing like a Citizen: Is Co-Design the Best Way to Support Vulnerable People?

Long Constitutions are not Garrulous, they are Restrictive

Will A Marriage Equality Ruling Cause Public Opinion Backlash?

The ADF Pay Deal: Politics Again Triumphs over Policy and Process

NATSEM Modelling of Federal Budget Should not Surprise

Evidence-Based Policy Making: What Westminster Policy Officers Say They Do and Why

The Deliberate Impotence of "Active Labour Market Policy": The UK Labour Market Continues to Deliver Quantity Rather than Quality

A Crisis of Democracy?

Making Political Science Relevant

Cyber is Sexy, and Anonymous is the Belle of the Ball

Is a British Senate any Closer Now? Or will the House of Lords still go on and on?