GOVT1101 FULL SEMESTER LECTURE AND READING NOTES

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GOVT1101 USYD FULL SEMESTER LECTURE AND READING NOTES FROM HD STUDENT. Week 2 Ways of thinking about power in Australia. Week 3 Is Australia a liberal democracy? Week 4 What's voting got to do with democracy? Week 5 What if a politician invited everyone to a party and nobody went? Exploring Australia's party system. Week 6 Making (vegan) sausages? What really goes on in Australian parliaments? Week 7 From ideas to action: the role of the Executive (ministers, bureaucrats, advisers and bureaucrats). Week 8 Men and women wearing bad wigs: the High Court and the Constitution. Week 9 Unnecessary waste, blame games and duplication? Federalism and Australian democracy. Week 10 Democracy as persuasion: media old and new, spin doctors and the public relations state. Week 11 Democracy as participation: individual political action, pressure groups and social movements. Week 12 Do Australian democratic processes matter at all? Democracy and international power.