Born in Melbourne? Considerations on the origins of Australian political science

Title: Born in Melbourne? Considerations on the origins of Australian political science
Creator: Moore, Tod William
Relation: Australian Journal of Political Science Vol. 52, Issue 3, p. 450-464
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2017.1326459
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: In a pioneering academic discussion of Australian politics written just before the First World War, William Harrison Moore reinforced the image of Australia as an increasingly autonomous part of a slowly evolving but essentially liberal British Empire. In this 34- page account of ‘Political Systems of Australia’ published in George H. Knibbs, ed., Federal Handbook (Melbourne, 1914), the Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Melbourne arguably created the ur-text of the Australian Politics textbook. It is argued that there is an unbroken thread of Cambridge-inspired political science teaching and writing at Melbourne from Harrison Moore onwards. The early Australian politics textbooks and ‘Political Systems of Australia’ are cut from the same cloth, making the latter an important precursor.
Subject: political science; Australian political science; Australian federalism; Australian political thought; politics textbooks; Australian liberalism
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341327
Identifier: uon:28717
Identifier: ISSN:1036-1146
Language: eng
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