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Published 01-02-2016
ISBN 9780522868722
Pages 304
Subjects History Political leaders and leadership
Imprint MUP

Settling the Office

The Australian Prime Ministership from Federation to Reconstruction

Paul Strangio, Paul 't Hart, and James Walter

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Published 01-02-2016
ISBN 9780522868722
Pages 304
Subjects History Political leaders and leadership
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The prime ministership is indisputably the most closely observed and keenly contested office in Australia. How did it grow to become the pivot of national political power? Settling the Office chronicles the development of the prime ministership from its rudimentary early days following Federation through to the powerful, institutionalised prime-ministerial leadership of the postwar era.

Paul Strangio is emeritus professor of politics in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University and specialises in political leadership and political parties. He is the author and editor of a dozen books, including Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns (MUP, 2002); winner of the 2013 Australian Political Studies Association Henry…

Paul 't Hart is Professor of Public Administration, Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

James Walter is an emeritus professor at Monash University where he was formerly Head of the School of Political and Social Inquiry. A fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and a former president of the Australian Political Studies Association, Walter has published widely on political biography, political advisers, political ideas, policy decision…