List of all MAs

These are the MA theses passed in the School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology. Copies of theses are held in the Department Library and are available, unless indicated, for reading only within the Department.

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• MA theses before 1990

2005

Aza Ozmanian: The international dimension of Kurdish conflicts. (Supervisor: Peter Shearman)

Gabriel Turzo: William Bennett's 'war' on drugs. (Supervisor: David Tucker)

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2004

Elisabeth Cowey - Government women's agencies, feminist policy networks and neo-liberalism: a case study of Victoria and New Zealand in the 1990s. (Supervisors: Verity Burgmann and Peter Chen)

Sonya Holm - Down to business: social entrepreneurship and the Australian community sector. (Supervisor: John Chesterman)

Meredith Martin - The impact of central Eastern European enlargement on the common foreign and security policy of the European Union. (Supervisor: Leslie Holmes)

Thi Duc Hanh Nguyen - Civil service ethics and corruption: a comparative study of Vietnam and the United States. (Supervisor: Leslie Holmes)

Catherina Timmermans - Intellectual property rights and international trade policies: an analysis of global economic, political and regulatory trends in the pharmaceutical sector. (Supervisor: Ann Capling)

Minh Manh Trinh - Containment and cooperation: continuity in U.S. policy towards the People's Republic of China during the Cold War. (Supervisor: David Tucker)

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2003

Valerie Ayres-Wearne - Reconceptualising youth policy for a sustainable future. (Supervisors: Linda Hancock and Brian Howe)

Bernard East - Examining reasoned consensus in Habermas' public sphere: the social construction of truth in assassination discourse. (Supervisor: Tim Marjoribanks)

Marie-Gabrielle Mocatta - Media freedom and democracy in post-Perestroika Russia. (Supervisors: Leslie Holmes & Robert Horvath (History))

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2002

Justin Dumayne - Discourse and theory in foreign policy: the containment and engagement debate. (Supervisor: Peter Shearman)

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2001

Stephanie McLean - Tradition of hatred: a comparative analysis of American right-wing extremism. (Supervisor: David Tucker)

Hilary Pearse - New public management reform and public sector corruption: a comparative study of the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. (Supervisor: Leslie Holmes)

David Ross - Citizenship accountability: a framework for addressing the problem of accountability in liberal-democracy. (Supervisor: Linda Hancock)

Reiko Take - The Northern Territories issue: nationalism and identity in Japanese-Russian relations. (Supervisor: Peter Shearman)

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2000

ABOU-ELYOUSR, K.M. State and statecraft in Islamic history.

BAKER, D. The Chechen-Russian Nationalist War: 1994-1996.

ESSABER, A. Neoliberalism, the Kennett regime and the identity of the City of Melbourne.

RASHID, T. The status of women in Islam: a case study in Pakistan.

SALMON, J. Deep ecology and mysticism.

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1999

BEAVIS, M. Reaffirming the Nation in International Relations Theory: Towards a Richer and More Powerful Theory of Global Politics.

JANESKA, O. Ambiguity and the EU enlargement towards Central-Eastern Europe.

SMALLACOMBE, S. Intellectual and cultural property rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

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1998

CLARKE, S. An assessment of the effectiveness of Australian non-government organisations in the delivery of foreign aid, with particular reference to Rwanda and Ethiopia.

HAM, A. The Assyrian community of Iraq: identity, gender, space and the politics of borders.

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1997

ANDERSON, J. From sensitivity to vulnerability: the emergence of asymmetrical interdependence in the Australia-Japan trading relationship 1983-1996

KABALA, M. Ethnic politics and public policy: political activity of Polish associations in Australia

MATTHEWS, G. Forests of the night: the moralised topography of the Mau Mau revolt

RUBENS, A. The politics of schizoanalysis: psychoanalysis, feminism and desire.

WADE, R. Regionalism and the Russian Federation, 1990-95: a case study of two regions in the Russian far east, Primorski Krai and Sakhalin Oblast.

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1996

BERTOSSA, D. How Does It Feel? An Enquiry into the Effects of Enterprise Bargaining on Women and Part Time Workers.

GOLDBERG, M. Beyond the Cold War Power Struggle? Exploring the Architecture of Security in the Persian Gulf War and the Emerging World Order.

HODGES, D. The Relationship Between Core Labour Standards and Australia’s International Trade Policy: An Examination of the Tripartite Working Party on Labour Standards.

MOORE, J. Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe, 1991-1995: Impact on the Macroeconomy, Smallholders and Land Reform.

POLHEMUS, M. Elephants in International Relations: Ivory, Zambia, and Eco-Colonialism.

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1995

GONDOR, G. The Cost of Home Ownership: A Cost-Benefit Model.

LI, T. The Revival of China’s Organised Crime: A New Type of Crime in the Process of market Economic Development.

LOCKWOOD, G. Mainland China - Taiwan Relations: The Interlocking Effect of Regionalism and Economic Interdependence.

MALGAS, L. Legitimacy and the PLO Leadership.

MORAN, A. Modernity, Racism and Subjectivity.

SABTO, M. Advertising, Wealth and Virtue: Advertising Ethics and Ethical Consumption 1850-1926.

SCHOFIELD, W. Contemporary Malaysian National Culture and Foreign Relations with Australia.

TAVAN, G. Emotive States: Affect and Phantasy in Paul Keating’s Republican Discourse.

TEWFIK, M. Conscious Problems: A Thematic Exploration of Distance, Irony and Tragedy.

TRIFILETTI, G. Contracting Out: Using Private Law for Public Services: An Examination of the Implications of Contracting out in Victoria, Using Local Government Services as a Case Study.

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1994

ALDERTON, S. The American Presidential Election of 1992: A Change in the Electoral Order?

GAFFNEY, C. The Political Method of the Socialist Workers’ Party and the International Socialists - A Litmus Test of the Fall of Communism.

GALLOIS, L. Women and Plastic Surgery: Breast Implants Women’s Motives and Public Policy.

HANSON, K. Racism, Refuges, and the State - a comparative study of the state and feminist support for battered Aboriginal women and their Black sisters in Britain.

HAMPSON, R. Fatherhood: A Preliminary Investigation, Examining the Father’s Role as ‘Other’.

HARTNETT, D. The concept of International Justice at the End of the Cold War.

JOVANOVSKA, O Community Europe's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) - Tensions at the Supranational Level.

JOYNER, J. Square Pig in a Round Hole: Viccode 2 in the Environmental and Policy Context of Greater Melbourne.

KATSIROUBAS, A. Confronting the Future: An Examination of South Africa’s Transition Towards Democratic Rule.

LAZZARINI,G. The Partner Allowance: Perceptions of Policy Changes.

MULLER, D. Policy Elites and Agendas in Victoria.

PERONE, J.P The Political Broadcasts and Political Disclosures Act 1991: A Challenge to Free Speech In Australia.

POWNING, R. The International Political Economy and Australia: A Criticism of the Neo-Classical Perspective.

SANDE, A. Shared Passions: An Australian Artist Couple and their Art.

TRAN, D. Race, Ethnicity and Political Participation: The Greek and Vietnamese Communities in Melbourne.

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1993

BITISIS, A. Toward a Typology and Dynamic Model of Terrorism.

BRUER, J. The Department of Immigration: Survival through Adaptability.

CAVE, T. Caseflow Management in Alternative Judicial Systems - A Case Study of the Victorian Credit Tribunal.

DAY, R. Change or Evolution. A Role of Study of The Office of the Victorian Ombudsman.

ELFORD, S. "The Labour Shortage and Attitudes to Foreign Workers in Japan."

FITCHETT, P. The Implementation of Recreation Strategy Plans by Victorian Local Government.

FOXMAN-FELDMAN, S. Purpose, Hope and Fidelity. A Study of Sustained Political Commitment.

GREGG, S. Defensor Civitas: Czech and Polish Catholic Intellectuals and the Philosophy of Civil Society.

HOLDING, M. Policewomen: An Exploration of Gender Identity and Occupational Role through the Use of 'Depth' Interviews.

HUMPHRIES, V. Consultation, Politics and Organisations: Two Perspectives on Consultation.

HUTCHESSON, M. Constructing the New Germany: A Study of Ethnic German Migration and Racism since 1990.

LYALL, K.J. "The Politics of Change: A review of the effectiveness of using guidelines to reform the non-metropolitan water industry."

MANTON, J. Change and Continuity in Victoria planning legislation 1961-1991.

PATTERSON, S. Elite Self-Interest and Ethnic Identity: A Comparative Study of Northern Ireland and Quebec.

PAYNE, L. A Failed Innovation? General Practitioners in Community Health Centres.

POLIS, A. Ministerial Advisers in the Victorian Labor Government 1982-1992.

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1992

BAILEY, T.A. The United States Military - Industrial Complex.

BENSON, M.R. The Australian Federal Government and the Disadvantaged Schools Program

BESHARA, A. Syrian Nationalism: An Inquiry Into the Political Philosophy of Antun Sa'Adeh.

CHAN, S. Privatisation and the Long Term Housing Strategy in Hong Kong.

DE LEO, M. An Assessment of the Operation of Adult Day Activity and Support Services Funded Under the Home and Community Care (HACC) Program in Victoria.

DONELLY, P. The Rise and Fall of Corporate Planning in `Victorian Government Departments during the 1980s.

FAZANDE, M. The Implementation of the S.A.M./C.A.M. Funding Formula to Public Sector Nursing Homes in Victoria.

GOLIAS, V. The Dilemmas of Gorbachev's Revolutionary Reformism.

HAINSWORTH, S. A Comparison of Multiculturalism and Intergovernmental Interaction in Canada and Australia: A Study of Nation-Building.

MOURNEY, K. New Politics, Old Goals. Postmodernity, Social Movements and the Collapse of Communism in Czechoslovakia and East Germany.

ROBINSON, D.C. An Exploratory Study of Attitudes, Beliefs, Values and Knowledge about Child Protection in Victoria.

RODRIGUEZ, F.J. Soviet New Political Thinking: Neo-Realism?

TENNANT, C. On Being A Woman Artist.

TORPEY, S. Safe Conduct: Road Safety Policies & Processes Victoria, 1970's to 1990's.

WILSONS, V.A. V Viewers Viewing.

WHATELY, P.M The Restructuring of the Victorian Industry and Energy Portfolios Under the Cain Labor Government.

WOLCOTT, P. The Analysis of Very Large Projects.

ZHU, Z. Case Study of the Economic Reforms in the PRC and the USSR.

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1991

CHIARELLI, S. The New Germany in a New Europe.

ECONOMOU, N. The Politics Dam Busting: The Impact of the Environmental Movement on the Australian Political Process in the Tasmanian Dams Dispute 1979-1983.

HARRISON, T. The Final Rondine of Modernity: Post-Communist Political Philosophy in Central Europe.

LE, P. Thought Reform and Human Rights in Vietnam.

MARKS, J. German Party Government: Challenges Prior to, and as a Result of, Unification.

MCCREDIE, J. Neither Black Nor White: William Buckley, The 'Wild White Man'.

MCMAHON, M. Japan, Australia, and the Multifunction Polis.

MORGAN, C. The Impact on the Shopfloor of Equal Employment Opportunity Provisions Included in the Victorian Local Government Act (1989).

NGUYEN, P. An Evaluation of Ethnic Content in Social Work Education.

OWEN, A. Policy and Administrative Co-Ordination of the Land and Property Functions of the Victorian Government.

SOMMERVILLE, R. Relationships with Nature: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Deep Ecological Thought.

STEER, M. Policy Horizons for Victorians with Physical and Sensory Disabilities: A Delphi Study.

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1990

CARBERRY, F. The Child Support Scheme: An Evaluation of its Personal and Social Impact.

ENGH, M. Rethinking Affirmative Action: The Failure of a Social Policy.

GREENAWAY, R. Transport Administration in Victoria 1978-1989.

JACK, M. The Planning and Financing of Urban Infrastructure.

MOORE, D. State and Agriculture in the Andes: A Comparative Study of the Context of Rural Policy in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.

PAINTER, J. The Green Revolution Ecology, Politics and Social Change in the Soviet Union 1985-1990.

TAROCK, A. Growth and Decline of Communism in 'Capitalist Democracies.

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MA theses before 1990

1989

ANSON, S. Representing R.J. Hawke.

ARMSTRONG, J. A Study of English Language: Teaching Programs in Australian Industry.

LOA-KUM-CHEUNG, K. "Trade Development and the Victorian Economic Strategy".

MARSHALL, S. The Victorian Boy Scout Movement.

MUNRO-SMITH, N. Strategy and Chaos - Industry Policy in the 1980's.

PAOLINI, A.J. American Revisionist Cinema of the 1990's.

1988

WOOLMER, S. The Emergence of 'Green' Politics in West Germany: A Study of the Effects of Industrialization on Political Participation and Partisan Alignments in Western Europe.

1987

CHOY, C.C. Shadows and Substance: The Formation of a Radical Perspective in American China Studies, 1968-1979.

FORNER, P. A Semiotic Study of Sandro of Chegem A Novel by Fazil Iskander.

HUTCHESSON, M. The Islamic revival and Nationalism: Catalysts and Confrontations in Soviet Central Asia.

JONES, C. The Origins of the Victorian Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee. B.Ec.(hons) (University of Sydney).

JONES, S. Political Legitimacy: An Australian Study.

SMITH-ARBUTHNOT, B. Political Climates in Contrasting Political Systems.

SOLOMON, S. The Role of Interest Groups and Policy Change Networks in the Transfer of Functions from the Victorian Health Administration to the Welfare Administration.

1986

BRENNAN, T. A Lacanian Controversy in Feminism.

DICKSON, J.W.M. "An Analysis of Changes in the Victorian Budget Process, Particularly Shifts in Power Over Decision Making, with the Change of Government in April, 1982.

IVIC, M. The Soviet and Cuban Involvement in the Horn of Africa.

1985

CHAMBERLAIN, N. Implementation as Diffuse Influence: the Policy Significance of the Debney Meadows Migrant Study.

GRAF, Y. Self and Transformation: An Exploration of the Work of Krishnamuti.

1984

BENJAMIN, C. The Optional Proportional System of Voting (OPS): A Practical Response to the Problem.

MATTE, G. The Creative Critic: A Psycho-Biographical Essay on the Work of Donald Horne.

1983

DETHRIDGE, L. The Implementation of Telematics in Australia.

KANAREV, N. Artistic Idealism and Political Expediency: A Comparative Study of the Origins, Philosophy and Nature of Stanislavski's System of Dramatic Art and Soviet Socialist Realism.

1982

CARTER, B.J. Opposition to Nuclear Weapons in Australia, 1949-1965.

McCRACKEN-HEWSON, J. Democracy in Associations.

RIMMER, J.R. Interpretation and Evaluation of a Committee of Inquiry: The Board of Review of the Role, Structure and Administration of Local Government in Victoria.

SHAPCOTT, G. Newspaper Iran. The Iranian Revolution as it Occurred in Melbourne Newspapers, in Particular The Age: An Excursion Into Semiotics and the Work of Edward Said on Orientalism.

SKUMIK, D.W. Two Models for a Rawlsian Theory of International Justice.

1981

SHORT, P.D. Income Inequality Under Capitalism and Communism.

WICKHAM, G. Essentialism and the Concepts of Culture, Ideology and Knowledge.

1980

ALLEN, L.J. A Party in Disarray: Victorian Labor After the Split, 1955-1965.

LINDNER, W.B. Logomachy: The Semiology of Political Language.

LYNCH, M.E. From Eire to Hellas - a Study of Selected Irish and Greek Organisations in Melbourne.

MINCHIN, J.B. Patriot of the Will: Lee Kuan Yew, a Political Biography of Singapore's Prime Minister.

RECHTER, C. The Industrial Relations Bureau Bill (1977).

RUMPF, P. Town Hall politics : Heidelberg's policy makers 1967-77 (Not Available in Department. Available in Baillieu Library).

1979

BLATT, P. Self-Reliance or Rediscovering the Wheel? - Case Studies of Technology Transfer and R & D in the Indian Tractor Industry.

INACHIN, V. The Politics of Inflation.

KEILY, R.A. Single Mothers in Society.

OLLIVIER, J.P.L. French and Italian Eurocommunism.

TSOKHAS, K. The Political Economy of Soviet - Third World Relations.

1978

WOOLFE, T. The Social Involvement of the Roman Catholic Church in the Third World - A Changing Role.

WONG, W.S. A Structuralist Study of Red Guard Language.

1977

BENN, C. A Study of the Development of Consumer Participation in the Family Centre Project. A Demonstration Anti-Poverty Program of the Brotherhood of St. Laurence.

EVANS, D.K. Adult Literacy Work in Melbourne: Some Political Constraints in a Field of Education Welfare.

MARWICK, R. Leon Trotsky: The Rise of Fascism and the Communist International.

O'LOUGHLIN, T. The Social Role of Australian Intellectuals.

PALMER, D. Army Base - Host Community: A Case Study of the Social Integration of the Military and the Larger Society.

WEBB, A. Biafra: Foreign Policy in the Quest for Statehood, 1967-1970.

1976

KOUZMIN, A. Centrifugal Organizations: Uncertainty and Technology in Administration.

NICHOLLS, M.Z. Growing Crisis in Commonwealth/State Financial Relations, 1948-1973.

RICHARDS, M.J. The Ryan Case: Analysis of the decision of the Victorian Cabinet to Impose the Death Sentence on Ronald Joseph Ryan and the Public and Mass Media Protest Campaign.

1975

ANZARUT, D.G. Computer Specialists - Job Satisfaction and Motivation: A Study of a Sample of Melbourne-based Computer Personnel.

BRADY, M.T. Life Styles in an Indonesian City.

BROOKE, E.M. Factory Women's Roles - A Study of the Rift Between Home and Work.

HAMEL-GREEN, M.E. The Legitimacy of the 1964-1972 Australian Conscription Scheme.

PURDIE, D.M. Current Problems of Local Government in Australia.

RICHMOND, K.G. The Australian League of Rights.

1974

ALLAN, L. The Northcote Branch of the Australian Labour Party.

OZOLINS, U. Out of School: A Study of Early School Leavers.

SCHMID, J. Leninism - The Relationship Between Theory, Strategies and Tactics.

1973

BEHREND, I. A Study of Some Distinguishing Characteristics of Scientists.

MIRABELLA, K.P. The D.L.P. Response to Communist China.

PARAMANATHAN, T. Personal Form in Women.

STAATS, S.J. 'Industrial Society', 'Industralialism' and the Debate on 'Workers' control' and 'Industrial Democracy' in Great Britain.

1971

HEARN, J.M. Migrant Political Attitudes.

O'GRADY, A. The Theory and Practice of Democracy in the Chinese People's Liberation Army, 1957-1967.

1970

CLARKE, J. Social Structure in a Sample of Melbourne Adolescents.

POLOMKA, P. The Indonesian Army and Confrontation.

1969

GOLDLUST, J. Jewish Adolescents in Melbourne.

HOLMES, J.M. State Electricity Commission of Victoria: A Case Study in Autonomy.

KELLETT, J.N. Local Government N.S.W. and Victoria, Finance and Community Development.

LANSBURY, R.D. Leisure in a New Suburbs.

LOH, H.K. The Political Expression of the Thought of Mao Tse-Tung

1968

BLUNDELL, J. Aspects of Australian Television.

McDOUGALL, D.J. The Malaysia-Singapore Area and Australian Security: Some Selected Aspects.

MEAKIN, D.S. Attitudes to Foreign Policy in the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party.

1967

DONOVON, F.H. Red Cross Observed.

DUFFY, P.J. Catholic Judgements on the Origins and Growth of the Australian Labor Party Dispute (1954-1961)

1966

MILLER, D.F. Political Development and the Differentiation of Conflict. (Note: thesis not available).

WALKER, K.J. Development Politics: Two Case Studies.

WILLIAMS, T.A. People and Organisational Change.

1965

DARBY, P.G.C. A Consideration of Some Factors Affecting Australia's Freedom of Action in International Theory.

ROCKMAN, R.R. Modern Sino-Tibetan Relations (1904-1959).

WARMENHOVEN, J.H. Prelude to the Irian Issue - An Evaluation of the Exclusion of Dutch New Guinea from Transfer of Sovereignty to Indonesia in the Light of Netherlands Colonial Philosophy.

1963

MACDONALD, M. John Courtney Murray's Account of the Problem of the Church-State Relation in Catholic Political Theory.

1962

MEDDING, P.Y. The Melbourne Jewish Community. (Note: thesis not available).

1960

FORWARD, R.K. Textbooks and Asia: A Study of the Material on Asia in the Geography, History and Social Studies Textbooks, Recommended for Use in the First Four Forms in Victorian Secondary Schools Between 1905-1960.

PAUL, J.B. The Premiership of Sir Albert Dunston, 1935-1945.

1959

WILSON, I.F.H. The Australian Press Coverage of Foreign News.

1958

KOTLER, S. Australia's Policy Towards Israel.

1956

SISSONS, D.S.C. Attitudes to Japan and Defence, 1889-1923.

1955

PETRIE, W.F. Aspects of the Machinery of State of the Government of Victoria.

PICKERING, T.R. The Evolution of Australia as a State Competent to Act in International Affairs.

1954

DUNN, D.D. The Committee System in the House of Commons.

FEITH, H. The Political Developments in Indonesia in the Period of the Wilopo Cabinet.

1953

GALE, J.B. Some Aspects of the Political and Constitutional Problems of Organised Marketing in Australia, With Special Reference to Victoria in the States' Field.

STARGARDT, W. Public Enterprise in Australia.

1952

BEVERIDGE, R.J. Victorian Railway Policy 1850-1883.

ENCEL, S. The Commonwealth Public Service: A Study in Status Differentiation.

MAYER, H. Some Aspects of the Marxism Theory of Social Classes Under Capitalism.

RIGBY, T.H. The Soviet View on Southeast Asia.

ZAIDI, S.I. Japan's Relations with the Asian Mainland.

1951

FOLEY, L.D. Japanese Radio Propaganda to Australia in World War II: A Case Study in Propaganda Analysis.

1950

BORENSTEIN, S. The Theory of Peaceful Co-existence Between Capitalism and Socialism and Its Application By the Soviet Union in the Post-War Period. (2 copies).

BYRT, W.J. Joint Consultation: Its Developments and Importance to the Study of Politics.

LH-MING, L. A Comparative Study of Immigration Policy.

1949

ELLIS, C. Why Does the ALP Support the White Australia Policy?

HALL, A.L. The New Orders. A Monography Containing the Nature and Scope of Delegated Legislation and Executive Powers in Australia, A Social Service State.

1932

PRYOR, L.J. The Origins of Australia's Repatriation Policy (1914-1920).

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