Australia : identity, fear and governance in the 21st century / Juliet Pietsch and Haydn Aarons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pietsch, Juliet, author.

Aarons, Haydn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public opinion--Australia.

Public opinion.

Australia--Social conditions--Public opinion.

Australia.

Australia--Politics and government--Public opinion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : Australian National University, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The latter years of the first decade of the twenty-first century were characterised by an enormous amount of challenge and change to Australia and Australians. In this volume we consider these recent challenges and changes and how Australians themselves feel about them under three themes: identity, fear and governance.

Contents:

Social attitudes towards contemporary challenges facing Australia

Keeping our distance: non-Indigenous/Aboriginal relations in Australian society

Australian engagement with Asia: Towards closer political, economic and cultural ties

Minority religious identity and religious social distance in Australia

Are neighbourhood Incivilities associated with fear of crime?

Terrorism and public opinion in Australia

Are we keeping the bastards honest? Perceptions of corruption, integrity and influence on politics

A new role for government? Trends in social policy preferences since the mid-1980s

Work choices: an electoral issue and its social, political and attitudinal cleavages

How do Australians search for jobs?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781922144072

192214407X

OCLC:

863063804

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459884