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Order, Order!': A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representativesshines a first-ever historical light on the remarkable men and women who have served in these national offices since Federation. The Speakers include Frederick Holder, whose campaign to embed a Westminster-style Speakership died with him when he collapsed dramatically in the parliament; the much-loved Joan Child, Australia's first female Speaker, whose struggles as a widow with five children fostered her commitment to social justice and made her, in the words of another Speaker, Anna Burke, 'pretty fierce'; and Ian Sinclair, a warhorse of a parliamentarian who seemed to prove the poacher-turned-gamekeeper principle. The Deputy Speakers, a particularly eclectic assortment, include the strange and bleakly serious James Fowler, who once hopefully mailed a film synopsis to the American director Cecil B. DeMille and who ended his days warning of the perils of democracy. Amongst the Clerks are Frank Green, who, at the height of the Cold War, indiscreetly befriended members of the Communist Party, and the popular Jack Pettifer—a true child of parliament—who grew up in an apartment in the building. This book includes analysis of what sorts of individuals typically filled these vital parliamentary positions, and the appearance of an Australian model of the Speakership based on pragmatic compromise. All three offices are typically more than just creatures of political parties—something that Australians should be prepared to defend against the remorseless encroachment of political partisanship.

Intro -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Prologue: 'How Many Germans Did You Kill, Doc?' -- Introduction: 'A Dreamer of Dreams' -- 1. Family, Community and Methodism: The Forging of Page's World View -- 2. 'We Were Determined to Use Our Opportunities to the Full': Page's Rise to National Prominence -- 3. The Use of Power: Treasurer Page Pursues His National Vision -- 4. Government and Party: The Basis of Page's Power -- 5. Page and the Final Throes of the Bruce-Page Government: Challenging the Nation through Planning and Federalism -- 6. Page Audacious: The 1930s -- 7. Post-War Page: Hopes amidst Frustrations -- 8. Page Indefatigable: His Last Years in Public Life -- Conclusions: 'A Man's Reach Should Exceed His Grasp' -- Bibliography -- Index.

A comprehensive analysis of how the large corporation has impacted national and global governance. Wilks has made an important contribution to the literature on the changing political and social role of business in contemporary capitalist polities. David Vogel, University of California, US Observers are increasingly realizing that that the large corporation has become one of the main institutions that govern our lives; the market economy, which in principle prevents corporations from possessing political power, today endows them with that power. Stephen Wilks here traces the extraordinarily important implications of this fact, and makes some sober proposals for tackling the problems it creates for democracy. Others have noted this phenomenon; here at last is a thorough study of it detailed enough to satisfy the standards of social science; worrying enough to command the concern of policy makers; and written in an approachable style to attract the general reader. Colin Crouch, University of Warwick, UK This is a book that needed to be written and Stephen Wilks has the academic understanding and breadth of practical experience to accomplish the task with authority and conviction. This is an important book, not only because it helps to fill a gap in a still under developed literature on the political role of the modern corporation, but because it raises important and disturbing questions about contemporary democracy. Wyn Grant, University of Warwick, UK The large business corporation has become a governing institution in national and global politics. This trail-blazing book offers a critical account of its political dominance and lack of democratic legitimacy. Thanks to successful wealth generation and ideological victories the large business corporation has become an effective political actor and has entered into partnership with government in the design of public policy and delivery of public services. Stephen Wilks argues that governmental and corporate elites have transformed British politics to create a new corporate state with similar patterns in the USA, in competitor economies including China and in global governance. The argument embraces multinational corporations, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance and the inequality generated by corporate dominance. The crucial analysis presented in this ground-breaking book will prove invaluable for academics, researchers and both under- and postgraduate students with an interest in the role of the corporation in politics and society across a wide range of fields including business and management (business ethics), politics, political economy, sociology, corporate governance and strategy.

This Article examines two phenomena contributing to the racial stratification of consumers in credit card markets. The first phenomenon pertains to the longstanding conflict between card issuers and merchants over payment processing cost allocation. If successful, First Amendment challenges to existing statutory surcharge bans will allow merchants to impose an additional fee when consumers use credit cards as a form of payment. The Article relies on the interplay between socioeconomic class and behavioral theory to suggest subsistence borrowers would be more likely to pay surcharge fees than wealthier consumers. This arrangement disfavors the poor to support a hierarchy of borrowers, to the extent that income inequality continues to cleave along racial lines. The second phenomenon concerns algorithmic lending practices. Algorithmic lending practices use technology to effectively extend structural racism's cumulative effects into the underwriting process. This Article argues that the algorithmic lending in modern credit card enrollment practices supports new and complex iterations of racial bias. Structural racism's legacy married to modern data mining practices capture and compare the broad sweep of spending patterns among consumers with racially disparate spending power. Public law's relationship to each of these two phenomena illustrates the government's limited capacity to protect marginalized consumers from the racialized effects of cardholder stratification. The Article concludes by encouraging experts to refine underwriting practices to disentangle racism's moral hazards from the legitimate business practice of equitable underwriting that determines a prospective borrower's creditworthiness.