Great Expectations : Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
Laura. Tingle
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Melbourne : : Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (124 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Front cover; Copyright; GREAT EXPECTATIONS; Contents; Road Rage; Autocrats and Democrats; Settling for More; They're an Angry Mob; Afterword; Acknowledgments; LET THEM WEAR SHORTS: Response by Rachel Nolan. - ""Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In this brilliant short book - an expanded version of her acclaimed Quarterly Essay - Laura Tingle shows that the reason for this goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of government. Since the deregulation era of the 1980's, Tingle finds, governments can do less, but we wish they could do more. From Hawke to Gillard, each prime minister has grappled with this dilemma. Keating sought to change expectations, Howard to feed a culture of entitlement, Rudd to reconceive...
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| ISBN | 1-922231-11-8
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