New theses passed

These are the latest higher degree theses passed in the Department of Political Science for the past year. Copies of theses are held in the Department Library and are available, unless indicated, for reading only within the Department.

• PhD Political Science
• PhD (Sociology)
• MA (Political Science)
• MA (International Politics)
• MA (Comparative Politics)

PhD (Political Science)

Annmarie Elijah: Better the devil you know? Australia and the British bids for European Community membership. (Supervisor: Derek McDougall)

Jeffrey Keddie: Inheriting Hilmer: competition policy and the regulation of professions. (Supervisor: Ann Capling)

Ann Morrow: The politics of educational disadvantage: the impact of central government policies on the capacity of secondary schools' capacities to improve educational outcomes for their socially disadvantaged students. (Supervisors: Bruce Headey & Richard Teese (Education))

Tahmina Rashid: Women's rights activism in Pakistan: role of lower/lower middle class Punjabi women. (Supervisor: Verity Burgmann)

Jane Sayers: Start with the little things: environmental education as political participation in contemporary China. (Supervisors: Robyn Eckersley & Stephanie Hemelryk-Donald (QUT))

Carol Strong: Charismatic authority during periods of radical societal change. A modified Weberian approach to the revolutionary leadership of Boris Yeltsin, Vaclav Havel and Helmut Kohl. (Supervisor: Leslie Holmes)

Helen Szoke: Social regulation, reproductive technology and the public interest. Policy and process in pioneering jurisdictions. (Supervisor: Mark Considine)

Llywela Williams: The containment of forced population movements: displacement and the implications of intervention. (Supervisor: David Tucker)

Zhanli Zhang: Taiwan and United States: China relations during the Bush (Sr.) and Clinton periods. (Supervisor: David Tucker)

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PhD (Sociology)

Merryn Ekberg: Genetic expectations: genetic risks in the risk society. (Supervisor: Tim Marjoribanks)

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MA (Political Science)

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

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

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)

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

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MA (International Politics)

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

Luke McInerney: Power, prestige and interests in Chinese foreign policy: an assessment of China's foreign policy behaviour over the period 1993-2003 (Supervisor: Peter Shearman)

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

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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MA (Comparative Politics)

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)

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