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Power Politics
The author asserts that the privatisation of South Australia's electricity supply has been a disaster for the state, with households and small businesses facing price hikes of around 25%, and the threat of power blackouts. How did this mess come about?
Beyond the Contract State
Beyond the Contract State challenges the foundations and effectiveness of economic rationalism. It argues that privatisation and contracting out are undermining the capacity of government to meet longer term social and economic objectives.
State of South Australia
Will South Australia emerge from the global economic crisis relatively unscathed and enter a period of unprecedented prosperity? State of South Australia tackles this and many other questions, offering the most comprehensive analysis of the major social, economic, cultural, environmental and political trends and policy challenges facing this state.
Social Policy in Times of Austerity
The effects of the 2008 financial crisis were ameliorated by large-scale social policy interventions, which both helped limit the depth and duration of the crisis and softened its worst effects on citizens. Yet in the wake of the crisis, those very same social policies and the welfare state they support have come under attack. There is, however, reason to be optimistic, argue the contributors to Social Policy in Times of Austerity. Bringing together leading scholars engaged in the debate over austerity and the future of the welfare state, the book traces the strong currents of resistance to austerity that continue to thrive within organizations, governments, and the citizenry at large.
Beyond the Welfare State
In Beyond the Welfare State, Sirvan Karimi utilizes a synthesis of Marxian class analysis and the power resources model to provide an analytical foundation for the divergent pattern of public pension systems in Canada and Australia.
Turning Points
South Australia has often been represented as different: convict free, more enlightened in its attitudes toward Aboriginal people, established on rational economic principles, progressive in its social/political development. Some of this is true, some not, but mostly the story is more complex. In this book, eminent historians explore these themes.
A History of South Australia
A History of South Australia investigates the state's history from before the arrival of the first European explorers to today.
Governing under Stress
This volume is the first work to emerge from a major international comparative research project exploring the political economy of globalization. This inter-disciplinary team of scholars is focusing on the semi-periphery of world power. Whether defined in social, cultural, economic or simply spatial terms, 'semi-peripheral' countries share two qualities: they are conscious of their subordination to the hegemonic powers at the centre of the global system - the United States and the European Union; they are also strong enough to have some ability to resist their domination. The structural position of these middle powers in global capitalism is unlike those countries at the centre that do not e...
The Engaging State
The GFC has highlighted the critical importance of Australia's engagement with the US and industrialising giants of Asia. Increasingly, governments such as South Australia's are engaging directly with the region in an attempt to strengthen economic ties. This book shines a light on emerging forms of engagement in the Asia-Pacific.
