Ritual and rhythm in electoral systems: a comparative legal account
In: Election law, politics, and theory
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In: Election law, politics, and theory
In: Representation, Band 55, Heft 2, S. 179-195
ISSN: 1749-4001
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 578-580
ISSN: 1541-0986
Modern law owes its provenance and enforcement to one branch of government or another. But not all law is 'public law' simply because it emanates from public bodies, affects the public or serves public purposes. This paper begins by defining public law, compares its Australian, UK and US conceptions, and contrasts it with private law. It charts the conventional paradigm of public law as an umbrella sheltering constitutional and administrative law, built on the concept of government. This neat, if narrowing, idea of public law is reflected in the dominant themes in contemporary public law teaching and scholarship (such as accountability or representative democracy). Yet given the diversity of ideological and functional accounts of what government is 'for', public law lacks any unifying account. A descriptive definition based on the notion of government captures the core content of public law, but a normative smorgasbord lies at its heart. This creates challenges – both positive and negative – for teachers of public law. As a result, and alongside the decline in black letter teaching in favour of case-study approaches, thematic first level courses in 'principles' of Australian public law have flourished. To engage commencing students who are often civics-ignorant, the pedagogical response has been to draw on contemporary policy and politics to lend context to such courses in public law. However such a 'magazine-y' approach poses challenges for coherence.
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In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 332-349
ISSN: 1743-8772
In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 332-349
ISSN: 1369-8230
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 56, Heft 2, S. 225-241
ISSN: 1467-8497
This article explores state and federal Australian cases from the past thirty years — legal judgments, inquiries and political scandals — which implicate the law and concept of electoral bribery. Specifically it examines deals involving preferences and arrangements made between politicians and "third parties" such as lobby groups and the media. It shows that, defying assumptions that it died out a century ago, electoral bribery remains a thorny ethical and legal concept, particularly given evolving norms and electioneering practices. If bribery is to be a workable ethical or legal concept for judging contemporary electoral conduct then it needs to deal with horizontal relations between political actors rather than, as it traditionally has, to focus upon vertical relations between politicians and electors characterised by the former's efforts to buy the latter's votes.
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 56, Heft 2, S. 225-242
ISSN: 0004-9522
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 574-579
ISSN: 0261-3794
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 17, S. 575-581
ISSN: 0261-3794
Examines the movement to transform the country from a constitutional monarchy linked to the British Crown to a republic.
In: Routledge Handbook of Election Law (Jurij Toplak and David Schultz, eds, 2022 Forthcoming)
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In: (2022) 33 Public Law Review (Forthcoming).
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In: (2020) AusPubLaw (6 April)
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In: Alan Bogg et al (eds), 'The Constitution of Social Democracy' (Hart Publishing, 2020).
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In: [2018] LAWASIA Journal 43-61
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