Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Fear, Itself The Threat Constructions Of Tea Party Candidates In The 2010 Republican Primaries
Published 2012-01-01This study explores the role that a faith-driven discourse has played in the electoral success of the Tea Party movement. The popularity of the Tea Party movement among conservative Protestant populations has led researchers ...Open AccessThesis -
EU Influence and the Politics of Memory Postwar Croatia & Serbia in a Comparative Perspective
Published 2012-01-01This thesis argues that the EU has indirectly influenced domestic perceptions of the past in postwar Croatia and Serbia through these states’ desire for EU membership. Informed by EU conditionality criteria, which include ...Open AccessThesis -
Australian Financial Governance: The Power of The Australian Financial Industry Over Public Policy-Making In The Lead-Up To The Global Financial Crisis
Published 2012-01-01The recent Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has once again highlighted the significance of finance and the financial industry to modern economies, the societies they affect and the ability of governments to make autonomous ...Open AccessThesis -
The 2011-2012 Russian protests and the precedents of protest in post-Soviet Eurasia
Published 2012-01-01This study places the 2011-2012 Russian protests within the framework of Eurasian mass-civil mobilisation. Researchers have examined the shared and divergent properties of these events, commonly labelled „colour revolutions.‟ ...Open AccessThesis -
Responding to Riots A Comparative Study of Elite Responses to Cronulla 2005 and England 2011
Published 2012-01-01In recent summers, rioting around Cronulla and throughout England has sparked debates about their causes. While there has been a concerted effort to analyse these, there has been less attention on the response of political ...Open AccessThesis