| Prof. Murray Goot | ||
BA (Syd), FASSA Professor of Politics and International Relations Location: Building W6A Room 436 |
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| Current Research | ||
An ARC-funded study of the polls, the press and Australian politics since the 1940s; work on Mass-Observation; and a study of Australian attitudes to the United States, commissioned by the United States Study Centre at the University of Sydney |
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| Publications | ||
| 2007 | ||
| Divided Nation? Indigenous Affairs and the Imagined Public (with Tim Rowse) Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press viii + 232 pp. | ||
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‘Questions of Deception: Contested Understandings of the Polls on WMD, Political Leaders and Governments in Australia, Britain and the United States', Australian Journal of International Affairs , 60 (1): 41-64 |
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| ‘Neither Entirely Comfortable Nor Wholly Relaxed: Public Opinion, Electoral Politics and Foreign Policy', in James Cotton and John Ravenhill, eds. Trading on Alliance Security: Australia in World Affairs: 2001-2005 , Melbourne: Oxford University Press for the Australian Institute of International Affairs, 253-304, 393-404. |
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| ‘Electoral Democracy in New South Wales: Parties, the Press and Popular Participation, 1856-2003' (with Sean Scalmer) in David Clune and Ken Turner eds. Writing Party History , Sydney: NSW Parliamentary Library, 121-30 |
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‘Explaining Howard's Success: Social Structure, Issue Agendas and Party Support, 1993-2004' (with Ian Watson), Australian Journal of Political Science , 42 (2): 253-76. |
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| 2006 | ||
‘The Aboriginal Franchise and its Consequences', Australian Journal of Politics and History 52 (4): 517-61. |
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| 2005 | ||
‘Pauline Hanson's One Nation: Extreme Right, Centre Party or Extreme Left', Labour History No. 89: 101-19. |
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| 2004 | ||
Editor, ‘Public Opinion and the War in Iraq', International Journal of Public Opinion Research , 16 (3) (Special Issue) |
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| 2003 | ||
‘Public Opinion and the Democratic Deficit: Australia and the War against Iraq', Australian Humanities Review , http://spider.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-May-2003/goot.html , Part I, 1-13, Part II, 1-13. |
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| 2002 | ||
‘Rubensohn, Solomon [Sim]', in John Ritchie and Di Langmore, eds. Australian Dictionary of Biography , Carlton: Melbourne University Press, Vol. 16, 144-46. |
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| 2001 | ||
‘One Nation's Electoral Support: Where Does it Come From, What Makes it Different, and How Does it Fit?' Australian Journal of Politics and History , (with Ian Watson) 47: 159-91. |
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| 2000 | ||
‘More “Relaxed and Comfortable”: Public Opinion on Immigration under Howard', People and Place 8 (3): 46-60. |
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| 1999 | ||
‘Whose Mandate? Policy Promises, Strong Bicameralism and Polled Opinion', Australian Journal of Political Science 34: 327-52. Also published in Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference , Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney, 1999, Vol. 1, 251-67; abridged as ‘Can the Senate Claim a Mandate?', in Marian Sawer and Sarah Miskin, eds. Representation and Institutional Change: 50 Years of Proportional Representation in the Senate Canberra, Department of the Senate, 1999, 79-94. |
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| 1998 | ||
‘ Australia 's “Stolen Children”: Which Poll Would a Poll-Following Prime Minister Have Followed?' International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 10: 349-64. |
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| 1997 | ||
‘The Perils of Polling and the Popularity of Pauline', Current Affairs Bulletin , 73 (4): 8-14. |
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| 1996 | ||
‘En/gendering the Gap: The Polls, The Press and The New South Wales Premier', Australian Studies in Journalism , No. 5: 17-42. |
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| 1995 | ||
‘Media Barons' (edited with Rod Tiffen), Special issue of Media International Australia , No. 77 |
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| ‘Civics, Survey Research and the Republic', Australian Quarterly, 67(3): 27-42. |
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| 1994 | ||
| Developments in Australian Politics (ed. with Judith Brett and James Gillespie) Macmillan: South Melbourne , 1994, x + 446pp. (Reprinted 1996). | ||
| Make A Better Offer: The Politics of Mabo (ed. with Tim Rowse) Leichhardt, NSW: Pluto, 1994, iv + 289pp. |
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| 1993 | ||
Australian Opinion Polls 1977-1990 (with T.W. Beed, et al.) Port Melbourne : D. W. Thorpe, xiii + 551pp. |
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| ‘Multiculturalists, Monoculturalists and the Many in Between: Attitudes to Cultural Diversity and Their Correlates', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 29: 226-253. |
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| ‘The Wild West? Yes, No and Maybe', Australian Quarterly , 65 (4) 1993, 194-202; also in Goot and Rowse (1994). |
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| 1992 | ||
Australia 's Gulf War (ed. with Rodney Tiffen) Carlton : Melbourne University Press, 1992, viii + 304pp. |
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| 1991 | ||
‘Public Opinion as Paradox: Australian Attitudes to the Rate of Immigration and the Rate of Asian Immigration, 1984-1990', International Journal of Public Opinion Research , 3: 277-294; slightly different version published as ‘Leopard or Lizard? Immigration and the Political Science of Polled Opinion', in Michael Easson, ed. Australia and Immigration: Able to Grow ? Sydney : Pluto, 1990, 125-140. |
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| 1990 | ||
‘How Much? By Whom? In What? Polled Opinion on Foreign Investment, 1958-1990', Australian Journal of International Affairs , 44: 247-267. |
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‘Speaking in Tongues: Surveys of Opinion on the Teaching of Asian Languages', Australian Cultural History , No. 7: 117-125. |
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‘The Forests, the Trees and the Polls', in Clive Bean, Ian McAllister, and John Warhurst, eds. The Greening of Australian Politics: The 1990 Federal Election , Melbourne : Longman Cheshire, 114-133. |
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| 1989 | ||
| ‘Reverberations of Beijing : Australian Public Opinion Towards China Before and After the June 4 Massacre', Australian Quarterly , 61 (3): 66-78. | ||
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| ‘Compulsory Voting: Questions of Rights', in Allan Sharp and Lindsay Mackerras, eds. The People's Say , Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, 9-11. |
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| 1988 | ||
| The Penguin Macquarie Dictionary of Australian Politics (with David Clune et al.) Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, vii + 376pp. | ||
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| ‘Trust the Polls', in Ian McAllister and John Warhurst, eds. Australia Votes: The 1987 Australian Federal Election , Melbourne : Longman Cheshire, 111-145. |
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| 1987 | ||
Swings and Roundabouts: New South Wales By-Elections, 1941-1986 , Sydney : New South Wales Parliamentary Library, 291pp. |
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| 1986 | ||
| Henry Mayer's ‘Immortal Works': Scholarly, Semi-Scholarly and Not Very Scholarly At All, Canberra: Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU, for the Australasian Political Studies Association, Canberra, 245pp. | ||
| Electoral Redistribution in Australia : A Comparative Analysis Background Paper No. 5, Sydney : New South Wales Parliamentary Library, 33pp. | ||
‘Saying “No” to MX: The Electoral Fallout', Australian Journal of Social Issues , 21 (4): 271-284. |
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| ‘Lumsdaine, John Sinclair', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds. Australian Dictionary of Biography , Vol. 10, Carlton : Melbourne University Press, 168-69. | ||
‘McDonald, Arthur Stephen', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds. Australian Dictionary of Biography , Vol. 10, Carlton : Melbourne University Press, 247. |
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| 1985 | ||
Editor (with Joan Rydon) Special Issue of Politics 20 (2) to mark the retirement of Henry Mayer. |
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| ‘Electoral Systems', in Don Aitkin, ed. Surveys of Australian Political Science, Sydney : George Allen & Unwin for the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia , 179-264. | ||
| ‘Inventing the Leader: A Critique of the Polls', in Ernie Chaples, Helen Nelson and Ken Turner, eds. The Wran Model: Politics in New South Wales , Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 50-68, 269-270. | ||
| ‘Public Opinion and the Public Opinion Polls', in Andrew Markus and M.C. Ricklefs, eds. Surrender Australia ? Geoffrey Blainey and Asian Immigration: Essays in the Study and Use of History , Sydney : George Allen & Unwin, 49-62, 144-45. | ||
| 1984 | ||
Constructing Public Opinion: The Polls and the Asian Immigration Debate Occasional Paper No. 5, Sydney : New South Wales Ethnic Affairs Commission, 34pp. |
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‘Capital Gains, Electoral Losses?' Current Affairs Bulletin, 61 (2): 31-35. |
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‘The Media and the Campaign', in Howard R. Penniman, ed. Australia at the Polls: The National Elections of 1980 and 1983 , Sydney : George Allen & Unwin for the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 140-215. |
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| 1983 | ||
‘Public Opinion and the Politics of the Polls' (with Rodney Tiffen), in Peter King, ed. Australia 's Vietnam , Sydney : George Allen & Unwin, 129-164, 210-214. |
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‘Public Opinion Polls', The Australian Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition, Vol. 8, Sydney : The Grolier Society of Australia , 161. |
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| 1981 | ||
‘The Ups and Downs of the Dailies', in Keith and Elizabeth Windschuttle, eds. Fixing the News: Critical Perspectives on the Australian Media , Sydney : Cassell, 245-250. |
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‘Fisk, Sir Ernest Thomas', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds. Australian Dictionary of Biography , Vol. 8, Carlton : Melbourne University Press, 508-510. |
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‘Bibliography' (with Patricia Holt), in Judith Mackinolty, ed. Wasted Years? Australia's Great Depression , Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 213-253. |
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| 1980 | ||
| ‘Age Differences in Party Preference and Policy Position', Australian Quarterly , 52: 60-74. | ||
‘Part Science and A Hell of a Lot of Human Judgment': The Polls and the 1980 Election', Newsletter of the University of Sydney Sample Survey Centre , 4 (4): Special Supplement, 16pp. |
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‘Radicals with Cold Feet? Federal Election Campaigns and the Labor Vote' Australian Quarterly , 52: 289-98. |
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| 1979 | ||
Newspaper Circulation in Australia 1932-1977 , Media Centre Papers No. 11, Centre for the Study of Education Communication and Media, Bundoora: La Trobe University , 33pp. |
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‘The End of Class, Re-Run' (with R.W. Connell), Meanjin , 38 (1): 3-25. |
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‘Party Dominance and Partisan Division', in Cameron Hazelhurst, ed. Australian Conservatism: Essays in Twentieth Century Political History , Canberra : Australian National University Press, 263-291. |
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‘The Polls, the Public and the Re-election of the Fraser Government' (with Terence W. Beed), in Howard R. Penniman, ed. The Australian National Elections of 1977 , Washington D. C. and Canberra : American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and the Australian National University Press, 141-184. |
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‘Monitoring the Public, Marketing the Parties', in Howard R. Penniman, ed. The Australian National Elections of 1977 , Washington D. C. and Canberra : American Enterprise institute for Public Policy Research and the Australian National University Press, 185-230. |
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‘Newspaper Circulation 1932-1977', in Peter Spearritt and David Walker, eds. Australian Popular Culture , Sydney : George Allen & Unwin, 210-221 |
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| 1978 | ||
Australian Opinion Polls 1941-1977 (with T. W. Beed et al.) Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, x + 364pp; reprinted Port Melbourne: D W Thorpe, 1993, xiv + 345pp. |
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| 1977 | ||
‘The Referenda: Pollsters and Predictions' (with Terence W. Beed), Politics XII (2): 86-95; also published in Dean Jaensch, ed. The Politics of the “New Federalism” Adelaide : Australasian Political Studies Association. |
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‘Radio LANG', in Heather Radi and Peter Spearritt, eds. Jack Lang , Sydney : Hale & Iremonger, 119-138, 258-262. |
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‘Select Bibliography' (with Peter Spearritt), in Heather Radi and Peter Spearritt, eds. Jack Lang , Sydney : Hale & Iremonger, 284-294. |
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‘Explanations of Women's Voting', in Women and Politics Conference , Canberra : Australian Government Printing Service, 103-111. |
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| 1975 | ||
Women and Voting Studies: Mindless Matrons or Sexist Scientism? (with Elizabeth Reid) London and Beverly Hills : SAGE Professional Papers in Contemporary Political Sociology 08-008, 44pp. (Reprinted 1976). |
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‘Taking Up, Cutting Up and Putting Down', Labour History , No. 29: 78-87; also published in Ann Curthoys, Sue Eade and Peter Spearritt, eds. Women at Work , Canberra: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. |
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‘The Concept of Preference in Voting Behaviour' (with Eleanor Langley and Helen South), Politics , 10: 44-54. |
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‘Rejoinder', Politics, 10: 57. |
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‘Women If Not Apolitical Then Conservative' (with Elizabeth Reid), in Janet Siltanen and Michelle Stanworth, eds. Women and the Public Sphere: A Critique of Sociology and Politics , London , Hutchinson , 1984, 122-136. (Reprinted from Goot and Reid, 1975). |
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| 1973 | ||
‘Uniform Swings and the Meaning of the Class Vote', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 9 (2): 73-75. |
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‘Growth and Decay: Party Support Between Elections', Politics , VIII (1): 265-271; also published in Henry Mayer, ed. Labor To Power , Sydney : Angus & Robertson on behalf of the Australasian Political Studies Association. |
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| 1972 | ||
| ‘Party Identification and Party Stability', British Journal of Political Science , 2 (1): 121-125. | ||
‘Presidential Politics in Australia ? (with R. W. Connell), Australian Quarterly , 44: 188-200. |
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‘Science and Ideology in American “Political Socialisation” Research' (with R. W. Connell), Berkeley Journal of Sociology , Vol. XVII: 165-193. |
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| 1970 | ||
‘Red, White and Brown: Australian Attitudes to the World Since the Thirties', Australian Outlook , 24 (2): 188-200. |
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| 1969 | ||
Policies and Partisans: Australian Electoral Opinion 1941-1968 , Sydney : Occasional Monograph No. 1, Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney , v + 219pp. |
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| Australian Public Opinion Polls: Index 1941-1968 , Sydney : Occasional Monograph No. 2, Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney , iv + 40pp | ||
‘Parties of Initiative and Resistance: A Reply', Politics , IV: 84-99. |
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‘Beyond the Generation Gap', in Henry Mayer, ed. Australian Politics: A Second Reader , Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 153-175. |
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