The Invisible State: The Formation of the Australian StateCambridge University Press, 8 aug 2002 - 352 pagina's In the modern State, power rests on the consensus of the citizens. They accord its institutions the authority to regulate society. State theory suggests that this authority is a right to speak on certain matters in certain ways and to have the audience agree with those statements. It is a matter of an authorised language; all others fall into the category of ratbaggery. In this 1991 book, the first major book applying State theory to Australia, Alastair Davidson shows how Australian citizens were formed in the nineteenth century, and how their particular characteristics led to the empowering of a certain language of power: legalism. He further shows that this made the judiciary the most powerful arm of government - unlike countries where the people arm sovereign and the legislature supreme - because the judiciary has the last say on all issues and in its own language. |
Inhoudsopgave
Prologue | 1 |
The making of consensus | 12 |
Private Vices Become Public Benefits | 19 |
The ideology of an unpunished and undisciplined convict | 30 |
3 | 65 |
The despotic enemy | 93 |
Policing the inhabitants | 102 |
From regular coercion | 112 |
The law decides what the State is and succeeds | 171 |
Why the rule of law in Australia is not the British rule of law | 187 |
The manipulation of women | 199 |
The State in loco parentis | 207 |
Demographic control of the population and | 214 |
the Triumph of the People | 241 |
Epilogue | 257 |
Select Bibliography | 313 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Invisible State: The Formation of the Australian State Alastair Davidson Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2002 |
The Invisible State: The Formation of the Australian State Alastair Davidson Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1991 |
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