Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Income distribution, growth and social-welfare: towards an economic solution to the growth-equality trade-off problem
Published 2011-01-01This thesis assesses the social-welfare implications of modifications to the post transfer distribution of income, in the context of welfare maximising policy design. Both the inequality-distributional efficiency and ...Open AccessThesis -
The Responsibility to Protect: Answering Civil Conflict in the 21st Century – A RAMSI Case Study
Published 2011-01-01This thesis will attempted to analyse the Responsibility to Protect, whether the doctrine has a future in the workings of the international system as an effective mechanism for conflict resolution and for consensus on ...Open AccessThesis -
Ties and Tiers: Decentralisation and Ethno-Communal Mobilisation in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Published 2011-01-01Decentralisation of governance responsibilities to sub-national authorities has been one of the most significant trends in state-reform since the 1980s. Debate continues, however, regarding the consequences of the expansion ...Open AccessThesis -
Bush Level Bureaucrats - National Parks Rangers’ Use of Discretion in Implementing Wild Dog Policy
Published 2011-01-01Wild Dog policy in New South Wales is controversial. There is a clear conflict between wild dog control methods as specified by the policy, and the need to conserve the rapidly diminishing numbers of dingoes in Australian ...Open AccessThesis -
Citizenship Status and Pressure Group Action
Published 2011-01-01This thesis investigates the intersection between citizenship status and pressure group action. It asks a two-pronged question. First, does variation in citizenship status (to be citizen or noncitizen) produce variation ...Open AccessThesis