As the second title in Palgrave Macmillan's Assessing the Evidence series, Politics in Australia adopts both a historical and conceptual approach, dealing with issues considered fundamental to the Australian political system throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
This text provides a detailed examination of the structural elements as well as the key concepts considered central to an understanding of Australian politics at a Commonwealth level, such as: - federalism - the constitution - parliament- executive government- citizenship- liberalism - conservatism- political parties- democracy