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Researcher Focus: Yusaku Horiuchi

Yusaku Horiuchi is a Senior Lecturer in the Crawford School of Economics and Government. He joined the School in 2004 after teaching three years at the National University of Singapore. Yusaku earned his B.A. (with honors) in economics from Keio University (Japan), M.A. in international and development economics from Yale University, and Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research and teaching interests include comparative politics (electoral systems, distributive politics, political participation, public opinion, Japan) and research methods (applied statistics, research designs).

Yusaku’s co-authored article, which examines the effects of Japan’s electoral reform in 1994 on distributive policy outcomes, appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, one of the flagship journals in political science, and won the Alan Rosenthal Prize from the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association. A related research note was published in the British Journal of Political Science. Considering the applicability of existing theoretical models in country-specific institutional and cultural contexts, another co-authored paper examines how political competition affects distributive policies in Korea (forthcoming in the Comparative Political Studies). Currently, Yusaku works on a paper examining the effects of subnational electoral systems on electoral competition in Japan’s Lower House elections (under review) and another paper estimating the impacts of voter turnout on distributive policy outcomes using Japan as a case (under review).

Yusaku is also an author of a book, Institutions, Incentives and Electoral Participation in Japan (Routledge 2005). In the literature on political participation, American and European political scientists have argued that subnational elections almost always record lower voter turnout than national elections. But in Japan, municipal elections often record considerably higher turnout, particularly in small towns and villages. Using a wealth of new data, ranging from cross-national data to in-depth qualitative findings from field research in a Japanese small town, Yusaku concludes that this counter-intuitive “turnout twist” is a result of Japanese citizens responding to incentives produced by institutions. Specifically, the electoral system used in municipal assembly elections – the single non-transferable vote (SNTV) system with an at-large district – produces extraordinarily small margins between candidates, particularly in small municipalities, and gives a strong incentive for voters to think hard how much their votes count in an election.

Through these causal inferences using Japanese data, Yusaku has come to develop interests in improving not only theories but also methods. With Kosuke Imai at Princeton University, he recently published a methodological paper in the American Journal of Political Science, which proposes a statistical method to design and analyze randomized experiments to mitigate noncompliance and nonresponse problems. For this study, Yusaku’s project team designed an Internet survey-based experiment during Japan’s 2004 Upper House election and estimated the impacts of policy information on voter turnout. There are some other methodological projects in-progress. They include a project to develop a statistical model for discrete compositional data and a project to conduct automated context analysis using political statements in the Japanese Diet

With respect to his research on public opinion, geographical areas covered are broader, and Yusaku intends to set a new research agenda for comparative public opinion research. His co-authored paper published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution examines the determinants of global public opinion about the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. In another paper (under review), Yusaku estimates the impacts of U.S. high-level visits on non-U.S. public opinion. To further investigate the causes and consequences of foreign public opinion, including the impacts of public diplomacy in Japan and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Yusaku received a grant from the Toshiba International Foundation and hosted a conference on public diplomacy (Japan, the U.S., China, and Australia) in March 2007.

For further information on Yusaku and his work, please consult: www.horiuchi.org

Grants and Awards

Sharon Bessell in collaboration with Professor Jan Mason from the University of Western Sydney, the Benevolent Society and NAPCAN received seed funding from the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth to investigate the role of action research in facilitating children's participation in community development.

Satish Chand received a grant of $688,580 as part of the Australian Development Research Award to study how land held under customary ownership is accessed for development in Melanesia.  The work, to be undertaken jointly with Charles Yala, is funded for a total of four years.

Bruce Chapman was appointed Sippanonda Distinguished Research Scholar, DPU University, Thailand, in January 2008, for his ‘outstanding contribution to higher education financing in Thailand’.

Daniel Connell has been awarded a National Water Commission fellowship to fund research in southern Australia, southern Africa, south-west USA and around the Mediterranean rim into the management of climate variability.

Jenny Corbett has been awarded two grants from the Australia-Japan Foundation − $100,000 for a Visiting Fellowship and $15,000 for the Crawford- Nishi Lecture Series.

Timo Henckel was commissioned and awarded $5,000 by the Paul Woolley
Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality (which is housed at the University of Technology Sydney and the London School of Economics) to write a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium model analyzing the implications of irrational foreign exchange markets for monetary policy and for macroeconomic welfare.

Best paper prize for a paper published in the Economic Record in 2006 presented by the Economic Society of Australia in September 2007 for the paper Grafton, R.Q., N.V. Ha and T. Kompas,  ‘The economic payoffs from marine reserves: resource rents in a stochastic environment’, Economic Record 82, No. 259: 469-480, 2006.

Suiwah Leung has been given grants from both AusAID and the International Monetary to conduct a conference on March 31-April 1 entitled Globalization and the Mekong Economies. The conference is being organized jointly by Suiwah Leung and Ben Bingham, senior IMF resident representative in Vietnam and Lao PDR. Speakers will be from the ANU, the IMF, the ADB Institute, the Institute of Southeast Asian studies, the Cambodian Development Research Institute, and governments of Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR. In particular, 14 ANU PhD graduates from Vietnam as well as graduates from Cambodia and Lao PDR will take part at the conference. They are now senior government officials and academics in their own countries. It is envisaged that a book will be published jointly with the IMF.

John McCarthy recently obtained funding for two projects, the first from the Australian Research Council entitled ‘Social Capital, Natural Resources and Local Governance in Indonesia’ and a second entitled ‘Linking Agricultural Policy and the Oil Palm Boom with Pro-Poor Development’ funded under Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership (both grants obtained with colleagues).
Kazuki Onji has been awarded a competitive grant from the Japan Economics Research Foundation for his research proposal on ‘Agricultural safeguards and corporate compliance: The case of the market for imported pork parts in Japan’.  Kazuki was also awarded the 2007 J.G. Crawford Award for his paper on ‘The response of firms to eligibility thresholds: Evidence from the Japanese value-added tax’. 

Activities (Staff and Associates)

Matthew Allen submitted his PhD entitled ‘Greed and grievance in the conflict in Solomon Islands’ in August 2007 and received very positive examiners’ reports. He has recently taken up a three year postdoctoral fellowship at the Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program (RMAP) in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at ANU. Initially he will be working on a book publication and a number of journal articles stemming from his doctoral research. Matthew also presented a plenary paper at the Pacific Islands Political Science Association (PIPSA) conference in Port Vila in December 2007.

Malcolm Bosworth and Ray Trewin have been selected to lead a REPSF II study on East Asian FTAs in Services: Facilitation of Free Flows of Services in ASEAN? involving Adelaide University, CSIS in Indonesia, and ICRIER in India. Workshops and fieldwork to East Asian Summit countries have been undertaken along with initial analysis of FTA and WTO GATS schedules plus WTO Doha offers. The research will be presented at workshops of East Asian Summit countries in Bangkok in late April.

Satish Chand presented a paper at the Fiji Colloquium held at the National Library of Australia on 28 February, 2008.

Bruce Chapman presented two seminars in October  − ‘Understanding Australian Higher Education Financing’,  to the University of Western Sydney Economics Department Seminar series, October, 2007 and  ‘Income contingent loans for mature aged training’, to the Commonwealth Department of the Treasury, October, 2008 (with Dehne Taylor). He made a presentation,  ‘What does the spread of FEE-HELP to the private sector mean?’, to the one day workshop, An Analysis of FEE-HELP in the Private tertiary Education Sector,  convened by the Crawford School of Economics and Government in conjunction with the Melbourne Institute, ANU, December, 2007. He was invited to address DP University, Bangkok Thailand, in January 2008 on ‘Thailand student loans’.  He gave the keynote address, ‘Student loans in international context’ at the Financing Tertiary Education Conference, 50th Anniversary of the Association of Colombian Universities, Bucaramanga, Colombia, February, 2008. He provided policy advice to the Colombian Department of Education in Bogota, in February, 2008 and gave eight media interviews (newspaper, radio, TV and radio) concerning Colombian student loans policy in Bogota, February, 2008. Bruce was also invited to address the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Conference, Sydney, March 2008 on ‘Alternative Funding Models for Higher Education’.

Daniel Connell undertook fieldwork in Portugal, Tunisia and Italy investigating water and drought management and undertook work as a member of a national library group planning and implementing a project to collect interviews for their oral history archive with policy makers and managers involved in drought management Australia-wide.

Jenny Corbett attended a conference on Financial Regulation: Costs, Benefits and the Process of Regulatory Change at the Melbourne sponsored by ASIC, APRA and FICA and organized in association with the Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies.  She was invited to join the Australia New Zealand Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee.   A project with the Asian Development Bank on emerging Asian regionalism concluded with a workshop in Tokyo in November.   Jenny gave conference and seminar presentations on her research on financial integration in Asia at ANU, ISEAS (Singapore) and ADB in October and November. As the Australian participant in the 16-country steering committee to establish the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) Jenny was invited to meetings in Bangkok and Tokyo and contributed a paper on Australia’s view of the Roadmap to Asian integration.   She supervised a research project on barriers to services trade in the EAS region (covering distribution, logistics and financial services, forthcoming in an IDE-JETRO publication edited by H. Soesastro).  The ERIA was formally established at the ASEAN summit at the end of 2007 and launched in Tokyo by the Japanese Prime Minister in early March.   To mark the launch, Jenny organized a symposium on the Roadmap for East Asian Integration with JETRO in Sydney with an audience of 200 business and policy participants.  The Prime Minister of Australian sent a letter of support for the role of ERIA to the symposium.  A 2-day conference on services trade issues was held in November as part of her ARC Linkage grant on Setting Priorities for Services Trade Reform with the Linkage partner, the Productivity Commission.  With Professor Fukunari Kimura, a Visiting Fellow at AJRC, Jenny wrote a background report on services trade between Australia and Japan as part of DFAT’s study on Australia-Japan relations, using gravity model estimates.  They are continuing that work to develop an academic paper.  

Richard Denniss was interviewed on Channel 7's Today Tonight program on education funding.  He was interviewed on John Faine's Melbourne Breakfast program, ABC Radio, on consumer spending and on National Radio News on the Commonwealth-State funding dispute.  Richard wrote a submission for New Zealand's Finance and Expenditure Select Committee inquiry into the NZ Emission Trading Scheme.  He spoke at theMelbourne Sustainability Festivaland presented paper to the NSW Economics Teachers Association conference. Richard also presented a paper to the Population and Climate Change: The Impact on the Millennium Development Goalsconference on March 15 and addressed the Federation of Australian Science and Technology Association Science Meets Parliament lunch.

Leo Dobes was invited to make a presentation to the Office of Best Practice Regulation (OBPR) conference on Cost Benefit Analysis on 21 November 2007.  The presentation is available on the OBPR website as 'A century of Australian cost-benefit analysis: lessons from the past and the present', Office of Best Practice Regulation, Commonwealth Department of Finance and Deregulation, 2008.
http://www.obpr.gov.au/costbenefitanalysis/conference/dobes.pdf

Peter Drysdale convened a workshop, in association with the Singapore Centre for Applied and Policy Economics, on Intra-Asia Trade and Factor Flows: Trends, Determinants and Implications on 8-9 October. He presented a lecture at Adelaide University on 16 October abs was a panelist at the 45th Japan-Australia Joint Business Conference in Tokyo on 21-23 October. During November he was a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and joined meetings in Washington and New York.  He convened the 32nd PAFTAD Conference in Hanoi on 17-19 December.  On 4 February he presented a lecture at Asialink.  He convened the East Asia Dialogue in Sydney on 26-27 March at which Prime Minister Rudd delivered the keynote address on Australia’s regional role.

Prasanna Gai presented a paper on ‘Financial Networks and Contagion’ at the Unicredit Group Conference on Banking and Finance: the Span and Scope of Banks, Stability and Regulation, Naples, 17-18 December, 2007. He was a discussant at the Asian Central Bank Research Network Workshop on Monetary Policy and Financial Stability, hosted by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Bank for International Settlements, Hong Kong, 21-22 January, 2008. He visited the Bank for International Settlements (Hong Kong) to commence work with colleagues on a paper studying the build up of foreign exchange reserves in the Asia Pacific, 13-26 January, 2008. Prasanna is currently working on a paper with colleagues at the Bank of England on modelling financial stability.  This paper will be presented at a workshop co-hosted by De Nederlandsche Bank and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), Stress Testing of Credit Risk Portfolios: The Link between Macro and Micro, Amsterdam, 7 March 2008. Prasanna has been invited to participate at the Reserve Bank of Australia’s annual conference on the implications of the credit crunch, July 2008.

Quentin Grafton has given the following invited presentations in the past six months: 27-28 September at 3rd Annual Water pricing Conference ‘The Welfare Costs of Water Restrictions in Metropolitan Australia’; 25 September at the Economic Society of Australia Annual Meeting in Hobart ‘Prices versus Restrictions: Marshallian Surplus & Mandatory Water Restrictions’ (joint with Michael Ward);  23 November, Workshop on Urban Water Issues ‘Price versus Rationing and Institutional Alternatives for Water’; 29 November, ANU Economics Showcase ‘Prices versus Restrictions: Marshallian Surplus & Mandatory Water Restrictions’ (joint with Michael Ward);  13 December, Joint Australian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society and Economic Society of Australia Presentation ‘Economics of Overexploitation Revisited’ (joint with Tom Kompas); 21 December, Ministry of Fisheries New Zealand ‘Economics of Overexploitation Revisited’ (joint with Tom Kompas);  8 February,  Invited paper at the Australian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society Australian ‘Water Economics and the Big Dry’ and  Chair of the 6th Annual Australian Water Summit 6-7 March, Melbourne.

Timo Henckel discussed the paper ‘Why do they patent in China?’ at the SCAPE-EABER Workshop on Intra-Asia Trade and Factor Flows: Trends, Determinants and Implications in Singapore in October 2007. In November 2007 he gave a seminar at the University of Technology Sydney on ‘Non-atomistic wage setters and monetary policy uncertainty’. Timo presented a paper entitled, ‘Inferential expectations in macroeconomics - A new theory and some applications’ at the ANU Showcase Conference held in November.

In September 2007, Yusaku Horiuchi was interviewed by ABC 774 Melbourne and commented on the sudden resignation of the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe. In February 2008, Yusaku delivered an intensive course on public opinion and public policy in the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University. Since 2005, Yusaku has been a co-organizer of a series of international workshops on distributive politics (i.e., political economy of the geographical allocation of public expenditures). In October 2007, the third meeting was held at Yale University, and he presented a paper,’ Rain, election, and money: The impact of voter turnout on distributive policy outcomes’ (with Jun Saito). Among a number of invited political scientists and economists, Yusaku was the only one attending from outside the US. He will present another paper in the fourth workshop, which will be held at University of California, San Diego, in April 2008. *Yusaku’s papers are available at http://www.horiuchi.org.

Peter Larmour is still working on three book projects arising from earlier research projects. The first is a monograph on corruption in the Pacific Islands, drawing on studies of National Integrity Systems he coordinated, with AusAID finding, in 2003-04.  He wrote three chapters while on study leave in Hawaii last year, and drafts of two more over the Christmas break.  University of Hawaii Press has expressed interest. The basis of one chapter – on corruption and the concept of ‘culture’ – has just been published in the journal Crime Law and Social Change (49(3) April 2008. The second is a co-edited volume – with Barry Hindess and Luis de Sousa – which is now in press with Routledge.  It draws on ARC funded research on the NGO Transparency International. Peter has been drafting a concluding chapter. The third is another co-edited volume – with Barry Hindess and Manu Barcham – on the political and social theory of corruption. A publisher is being sought. Peter has also written up his report on constitutionalising anti-corruption in Nepal, which UNDP will use in discussions with members of the soon-to-be-elected Constituent Assembly, which will draft a new constitution.  Parts of that are available in a working paper called ‘A short history of corruption and anti-corruption’ put out by Luis de Sousa’s new research network on anti corruption agencies. Peter also wrote a short discussion paper for AusAID reviewing the history of public sector reform programs in the Pacific (which he hopes to expand into a short article).

Rich Little was invited to present a talk entitled ‘In-vitro - Agents in a glass - a spatially explicit agent based model for regional marine ecosystems and economies’, (L. Richard Little, Randall Gray, Beth Fulton) at In Hot Water: preparing for climate change in Australia's coastal and marine systems, 12-14 November 2007, State Library of Queensland.  He recently hosted a Queensland Reef Line fishery workshop for the Modelling of Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ), 7 November 2007, Mecure Hotel, Brisbane. In December he gave a talk on area closures as a management tool in amulti-species coral reef line fishery. (Little, L.R., Begg, G.A., Goldman, B., Ellis, N., Mapstone, B.D., and Punt, A.E.) at MODSIM07 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Land, Water & Environmental Management: Integrated Systems for Sustainability, 10-13 Decemeber 2007, where he hosted a session on Social, Economic and Ecological Modelling of Fisheries and Marine Resources. In March 2008 he attended ReefMAC in Brisbane to deliver two talks on Applications of management strategy evaluation, and results of simulation modelling of ITQ system in the Queensland reef line fishery.

Andrew MacIntyre convened the Australia-Indonesia Policy Research Forum in Jakarta on 3 December 2007.  On 13-18 January he co-facilitated the Australian-American West Coast Leadership Dialogue in California.

John McCarthy attended the Round Table on Sustainable Oil Palm meeting in Kuala Lumpur and made a field trip to Indonesia over January-February to continue research under a Australian Research Council grant entitled ‘Oil palm and agrarian transition on the Indonesian and Malaysian frontiers’.

Ken Menz commenced as a visiting fellow in October 2007, following his retirement after 20 years at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).  Ken expects to be working part time on an ACIAR project in the Philippines.  Official approval of the project has been delayed but start up should occur before the end of the financial year.  

Richard Mulgan continued work on finalising publications for two ARC grants (on accountability for outsourced services and accountability priorities of parliamentarians).  He was commissioned to write a position paper for an Institute of Public Administration Roundtable on public service independence and responsiveness held in Melbourne 13-14 March.  Richard also participated as a ‘cross-jurisdictional’ adviser to the Desert Knowledge CRC (Cooperative Research Centre) project on demand-responsive service delivery to indigenous communities, attending two workshops, in Alice Springs and Perth.

Ann Nevile has recently returned from two months as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities (CIRCLE) at the University of Leeds during which time she conducted interviews with 26 non-government service provider and advocacy organisations up north (Leeds, Manchester, Hull and Sheffield) and in London about the impact of funding arrangements on service delivery agencies and outcomes for service users.  Ann was interviewed by PM on 7 March 2008 about the broad issue of welfare reform and the possible cut to carers’ allowance in the forthcoming budget.

Janine O’Flynn’s article on the public value paradigm was one of the most popular articles in the Australian Journal of Public Administration in 2007. It is currently ranked fourth most popular based on downloads for the previous 12 months and it was only published in September 2007.

Kazuki Onji presented his paper on the behavioural/education economics, ‘Procrastination, prompts, and preferences: Evidence from daily records of self-learning activities,’ at Ritsumeikan University (January 2008), a workshop jointly hosted by Kansai Labour Workshop and Osaka University - Behavioural Economics Workshop (December 2007), Australian Meeting of the Econometric Society (July 2007), and RSSS, ANU (April 2007), Japan Study Association of Australia Meeting (July 2007) and Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU (May 2007).  Kazuki was invited to the NBER Japan Project Meeting in Tokyo in July 2007 to present his paper on ‘The response of firms to eligibility thresholds: Evidence from the Japanese value-added tax’. A short summary of the presentation by Kazuki Onji at the NBER Japan Project Meeting appeared in NBER Reporter 2007 Number 2 (www.nber.org/reporter).

Rolly Purnomo undertook an internship at the National Institute for Informatics in Tokyo between October and December.

Ben Reilly attended two international conferences in the United States and Taiwan, and delivered the following papers: ‘Democratization and electoral reform in the Asia-Pacific: Is there an Asian model of democracy?’, American Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, 1-4 September 2007. ‘Political engineering in the Asia-Pacific’, conference on After the Third Wave: Problems and Challenges for the New Democracies, Taipei, Taiwan 13-15 August 2007. Both of these papers have since been published, in Comparative Political Studies and the Journal of East Asian Studies, respectively. In addition, Oxford University Press has recently released a paperback version of his book Democracy and Diversity: Political Engineering in the Asia-Pacific. Ben also attended the International Studies Association meeting in San Francisco in March 2008 to chair the panel on 'Electoral Processes in War-Torn Societies'. The panel brings together authors of a new edited book on the subject, From War to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding (Cambridge University Press, 2008), in which he has a chapter. He also presented a keynote address to the AIIA-CDI forum on ‘Australia's role in democracy promotion’, and related presentations in Washington DC, and attended the World Movement for Democracy Fifth Assembly in Kiev, Ukraine. He recently gave a public presentation of his new co-authored CDI-IDEA-UNU policy paper on  ‘Strengthening political parties in fragile states' to AusAID's Governance and Anti-Corruption Network.

Ligang Song presented his paper, ‘The road ahead: China’s economic engagement with the world economy’, at the Brookings Institution Conference on China: The Opportunities and Tensions from China’s Integration into the World Economy, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 9 October 2007. He continued to work on the ARC Linkage project on industrialization and demand on resources in the second half 2007 by presenting a paper, ‘China’s iron and steel industry performance: its total factor productivity and the determinants’, at the ARC Linkage Project Workshop jointly organized with China’s Steel Industry Association in Beijing on 10 December. He collaborated with the Brookings-Tsinghua Centre and the Social Science Academic Press of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to launch the Chinese translation of 2007 China Update book at Tsinghua University in Beijing on 11 December 2007.

Luca Tacconi was an invited member of a panel on Governance, Markets, and Deforestation at a side event of the United Nations conference on Climate Change in Bali in December 2007. He also carried out a consultancy for The World Bank to prepare a paper on oil palm cultivation in Indonesia and the implications for climate change.

John Uhr presented a paper on ‘Analysing Parliamentary deliberation’ to the workshop on Theory and Practice of Deliberative Democracy organised by the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU, 7-8 February.  He convened two conferences at Parliament House on Parliamentary Committee performance on 15 and 16 February. The Department of the House of Representatives marked the establishment of the committee system with a free public conference on Friday 15 February 2008. The conference considered themes of achievements and challenges, community participation and member education, and future directions for House committees. That conference was followed on Saturday 16 February 2008 by a day long workshop on Parliamentary Committee Systems convened by the Parliamentary Studies Centre, Crawford School of Economics and Government. The workshop was opened by Sir Bernard Crick, Edinburgh University.  On 5 March he spoke on ‘Parliament’ as one of six invited speakers at the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU workshop on The First 100 Days of the Rudd Government. John prepared a paper with co-author Phil Larkin on ‘Australia: Divided government in a parliamentary system’ for presentation at Griffith University, 17th March.  He also prepared a paper on ‘Parliament’ for presentation to an ANU workshop on the History of Political Science in Australia, 25-27 March and another on Oppositions leaders for presentation at Utretch University, Netherlands, conference on Political Leadership, 10-11 April.

Transcripts of each of these events will appear soon on the PSC website: www.parliamentarystudies.anu.edu.au.

PhDs awarded in December

Andy Sungnok Choi
‘Tackling population heterogeneity for non-market valuation: Latent attitudinal variables and choice modeling’.

Renata Hasanova
‘Essays on economic growth, structural reform and trade in transitional economies’.

Quang Ha Nguyen
‘Farm size, farm fragmentation and efficiency in rice production in Vietnam’.

Lynette Hui-Ling Ong
‘The political economy of credit in rural China: the rural credit cooperatives’.

Jennifer Lee Thompson
‘Public sector reform in Australia: the efficiency and effectiveness of Centerlink and the Job Network’

Publications (Students, Staff and Associates)

Paul Atkins
Parker, S. E., Axtell, C. M., ‘Building better work places through individual perspective taking: A fresh look at a fundamental human process’, International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 23, (in press).

Sharon Bessell
with Lynette Petueli's, chapter on children and childhood in Fiji,  was published in December 2007 as part of the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide

Satish Chand
'How soon can donors exit from post-conflict states', CGD Working Paper: http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15464

Richard Denniss
op ed for the Dominion Post (Wellington NZ), 17 March entitled 'Letting the Mr Bigs of Greenhouse go free'.

op ed on interest rates published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 24 March.

Leo Dobes
Managing Consultants: a Guide for Busy Public Sector Managers, 2006, ANU e-Press, http://epress.anu.edu.au/managing_citation.html.   The monograph, an ANZOG research publication, was launched on 29 October by Professor Ian Chubb, Dr Peter Shergold and Professor John Wanna. At the time of the launch the most frequently downloaded document in the series.

An op-ed piece regarding infrastructure investment and cost-benefit analysis: ‘Get down to brass tacks on costs’, The Australian Financial Review, 18 December 2007, http://subscribe.afr.com/home/searchresult.aspx

Peter Drysdale
with Kejun Jiang and Dominic Meagher (eds), ‘China and East Asian energy: Prospects and issues’, Vol. II, Parts I & II, Asia Pacific Economic Papers, No 369, Australia-Japan Research Centre, pp146, 2008.

Prasanna Gai

with S Kapadia, A Perez and S Millard, ‘Financial innovation, macroeconomic stability and systemic crises’, Economic Journal, 118, March, 401-26, 2008.

Quentin Grafton
with T. Kompas and R. Hilborn, ‘The economics of overexploitation revisited’, Science, 318: 1601, 2007.

with T. Kompas and P. Dorian Owen, ‘Bridging the barriers: Knowledge connections, productivity and capital accumulation,  Journal of Productivity Analysis 28: 219-231, 2007.

with H.W. Nelson and B. Turris, ‘How to solve the Class II common property problem? The case of British Columbia's multi-species Groundfish Trawl Fishery, Chapter 4 in Advances in Fisheries Economics Festschrift in Honour of Professor Gordon R. Munro (eds.T. Bjorndal, U. R. Sumaila, D.V. Gordon and R. Arnason), Blackwell Publishing.

Rich Little
with McDonald, A.D., Gray, R., Fulton, E., Sainsbury, K.J. and Lyne, V. , An agent-based modeling approach to evaluation of multiple use management strategies for coastal marine ecosystems, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (in press).

Amy Liu
with C. Lixin, ‘Union wage effects in Australia: Is there variation along the distribution?’, Economic Record (forthcoming).

‘Changes in urban inequality in Vietnam: 1992-1998’, Economic Systems (forthcoming).

Andrew MacIntyre
with Stephen Haggard and Lydia Tieda, 'The rule of law and economic development', in Annual Review Political Science. 2008. 11:X--X (forthcoming).

with John Ravenhill and TJ Pemple, co-eds, Crisis as Catalyst: Asia’s Dynamic Political Economy, Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, 2008 (forthcoming).

John McCarthy
‘The demonstration effect: Natural resources, ethnonationalism and the Aceh
conflict’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (28) 314-333, November 2007.

‘Learning from King Canute: Policy approaches to biodiversity conservation,
lessons from the Leuser Ecosystem’ in Biodiversity and Human Livelihoods in
Protected Areas: Case Studies from the Malay Archipelago, Navjot S., Sodhi, Gregy Acciaioli, Maribeth Erb and Alan Khee-Jin Tan, eds, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Richard Mulgan
‘The importance of appearing not to be earnest’ in B. Manhire and P. Whitford (eds), Still Shines When You Think Of It. Festschrift for Vincent O’Sullivan, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 15-25.

Entries on ‘accountability’, ‘mandate’ and ‘New Zealand-Australia relations’ in Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.

Kazuki Onji
‘The response of firms to eligibility thresholds: Evidence from the Japanese value-added tax’, Asia Pacific Economic Papers  (forthcoming).

with David Vera, ‘Tax law asymmetries and income shifting: Evidence from Japanese capital keiretsu,’ Asia Pacific Economic Papers  (forthcoming).

Janine O’Flynn
and Alford, J., ‘The separation/specification dilemma in contracting: The local government experience in Victoria’, Public Administration 86(1), pp. 205-224, 2008.
[** note that Public Administration is in the top 5 public administration journals in the ISI journal rankings.]

and Blackman, D.,  ‘Experimenting with organisational design in Bhutan: Tools for reform and the achievement of multi-level goals, Policy and Governance Discussion Paper, Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Canberra, 2008.

with Aulich, C., ‘From public to private: The Australian experience of  privatisation’, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 29 (2), pp.151-169, 2007.

‘Australian Capital Territory political chronicles’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 53(4), pp.662-667, 2007.

Ben Reilly
‘Democratization and electoral reform in the Asia-Pacific region: Is there an ‘Asian model’ of democracy?’, Comparative Political Studies, 40(11), 2007, pp. 1350-1371.

‘Electoral systems and party systems in East Asia’, Journal of East Asian Studies, 7, 2007, pp. 185-192.

‘Electoral and political party reform’ in Ross H. McLeod and Andrew MacIntyre (eds), Indonesia: Democracy and the Promise of Good Governance, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2007.

'Political engineering in the Asia-Pacific', Journal of Democracy, 18(1), 2007, pp. 58-72.

(with Per Nordlund and Ted Newman), 'Political parties in conflict-prone societies: Encouraging inclusive politics and democratic development', United Nations University Policy Brief, Tokyo, 2008.

Ligang Song
‘The impact of economic reform on economic growth in China: a principal component analysis, Research Paper No. 2008/12, United Nations University (UNU) and World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), Helsinki, 2008

with Mari Pangestu, eds, Japan’s Future in East Asia and the Pacific,  Asia Pacific Press, Canberra (December), 2007

with Tina Chen and Shiji Zhao, ‘The dynamic in East Asia trade’, in Mari Pangestu and Ligang Song (eds), Japan’s Future in East Asia and the Pacific, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra (December), pp. 166-194, 2007

with Sheng Yu, ‘Comparative advantage and Australia-China bilateral trade’ , Economic Papers, Vol. 27, No. 1, March, pp. 41-56, 2008

John Uhr published 8 entries in the recent Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, edited by Brian Galligan: ‘Hansard’; ‘Independents’; ‘R S Parker’; ‘parliamentary committees’; ‘parliamentary privilege’; ‘parliamentary secretary’; and ‘C H Spence’.

Michael Ward
with Jay Shimshack, ‘Enforcement and environmental over-compliance’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 55, Issue 1, January
2008, Pages 90-105.

Crawford School Paper Series
http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/research/papers.php