Only in Australia The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism

Dunn 2005; on the criticisms of Athenian democracy, see Ober 1998). For Tocqueville, however,‘democracy’was both a process for s ...

rendered all the more acute by a heightened sense of envy, because the ‘equality that allows each citizen to entertain vast hope ...

The economic forces were the clearest. Industry‘exposes [men] to great and sudden alternations of abundance and misery...and can ...

weight of conformism, even ideas in which no one any longer believed could persist, blocking innovation: No one combats the doom ...

the‘essentially democratic spirit’animating the‘large mass of the colony’ (Beasley 2005, pp. 69–75). It is true that by the time ...

to narrow opportunities—making Australia‘a country merciful to the average’ (Hancock 1930, p. 304)—but to pursue policies to the ...

equality from a virtue into an uncontrolled passion, unleashing a force all the more demonic as the traditional mechanisms that ...

explain why it occurs, under what conditions it might persist, and how the forces it generates could alter it and set off new, u ...

the palpable and the particular, about individual people, places and problems’ (Meaney 1985, p. 11), more like a witness giving ...

Awakening, usually dated as covering the period from 1800 to 1830, see McLoughlin 1978, pp. 98–140). But perhaps more than anywh ...

times of equality’(DA, I.1.v), religion prospersbecauseit is socially useful. That would, however, be entirely incorrect. After ...

Irish independence.^7 But although Hancock was close to his father, and attached significance to faith, religion simply does not ...

carried further, perhaps, than in any other advanced society, of institutional- izing the resolution of conflicts over the alloc ...

the familiar British fashion’(Hancock 1930, p. 202), it was also because the industrial relations system gave them so much to pr ...

Australian intellectual history by Greg Melleuish (see, for example, Melleuish 1995, 2014). It is also frequently cited inThe Ox ...

The result is that history plays little serious role in the policy debate, much less in the wider battle of ideas—bringing to mi ...

bears little relation, if any, to its substantive content and which can only survive if that content is ignored. To that extent, ...

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