Selected Publications

•   Ministerial Responsibility in Australia: 2005
• Terms of Trust: arguments over ethics in Australian government . Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005.
• Creating a Culture of Integrity, second publication in series ‘Taking Democracy Seriously’, The Commonwealth Secretariat, London 2003.
• Deliberative Democracy in Australia: The Changing Place of Parliament , Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1998, published in the ANU series: Reshaping Australian Institutions.

Books

• Paul ‘t Hart and John Uhr. Editors: Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices . Australian and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), ANU E-Press 2008:
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Book chapters:

• ‘Bicameralism and democratic deliberation’, in N Aroney, J Nethercote and S Prasser, eds. Restraining Elective Dictatorship. UWA Press 2008
• ‘Distributed Authority in a Democracy: The Lattice of Leadership Revisited’, chapter 3 in Paul ‘t Hart and John Uhr. Editors: Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices,  ANU E-Press 2008, 37-44. View Online >>
• ‘Understanding Public Leadership: An Introduction’, chapter 1 in Paul ‘t Hart and John Uhr. Editors, Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices. ANU E-Press, 2008, 1-18.
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• ‘Reshaping public integrity’, chapter 7 in in The Fourth Howard Government, ed C Aulich and R Wettenhall. UNSW Press 2008, 114-131.
• Entries on ‘Hansard’, ‘Independents’, ‘Parker, R S’, ‘Parliament’, ‘parliamentary committees’, ‘parliamentary privilege’, ‘parliamentary secretary’, ‘C H Spence’, in B Galligan and W Roberts eds, Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. Oxford University Press 2007.
• ‘Constitutions and Rights’, chapter 9 in B G Peters and J Pierre eds, Handbook on Public Policy. Sage 2006
• ‘The Performance of Australian Legislatures in Protecting Rights’, in T Campbell, J Goldsworthy, and A Stone eds, Protecting Rights without a Bill of Rights.. Ashgate 2006, 41-59
• ‘Bicameralism’, ch 24 in R Rhodes, S Binder and B Rockman eds, Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions. Oxford University Press 2006, 474-494
• ‘Political ethics for politicians?’, in Denis Saint-Martin and Fred Thompson eds, Public Ethics and Governance. Research in public policy analysis and management volume 14. Oxford, Elsevier JAI 2006, 207-225.
• ‘Rethinking legislative powers’ chapter in H Charlesworth, M Chiam, D Hovell and G Williams eds, The Fluid State: international law and national legal systems. The Federation Press 2005, 18-33.
• ‘Federalism and Social Policy: Australia’, chapter in Federalism and Social Policy; edited by S Leibfried, H Obinger and F G Castles, Cambridge University Press 2005 (co-written with Professor Francis Castles, University of Edinburgh, Scotland), 51-88
• ‘Australia: Integrity Assessment’, in M Camerer ed Global Integrity Assessment, Center fro Public Integrity, Washington , DC: http://www.publicintegrity.org
• ‘Auditory Democracy: Separation of Powers and the Location of Listening’, chapter prepared for B Fontana, C Nederman and G Remer eds, Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy. (Penn State University Press, 2004), 239-270.
• ‘Measuring Parliaments Against the Spence Standard’, in Graeme Orr, Bryan Mercurio and George Williams, eds Realising Democracy: Electoral Law in Australia (Sydney: The Federation Press 2003), 66-79
• ‘Just Rhetoric? Exploring the Language of Leadership’, in P Bishop, C Connors and C Sampford eds Management, Organisation and Ethics in the Public Sector (London: Routledge 2003), 123-144.
• ‘Reforming the Parliament’, in John Williams and Clem MacIntyre eds Peace, Order and Good Government: State Constitutional and Parliamentary Reform. Adelaide: Wakefield Press 2003, 228-40.
• ‘Rewriting the Referendum Rules’, in John Warhurst and Malcolm Mackerras eds Constitutional Politics: The Republic Referendum. University of Queensland Press 2002, 177-199.
• ‘Political Leadership and Rhetoric’, in H G Brennan and Francis G Castles eds Australia Reshaped: 200 years of institutional transformation. University of Cambridge Press 2002, 261-94.
• ‘What’s so responsible about responsible government?’, in D Burchell and A Leigh eds, The Prince’s New Clothes: why do Australians dislike their politicians?. University of New South Wales Press, 2002, 155-166.
• ‘Rules for Representation: Parliament and the Design of the Australian Electoral System’, chapter in Geoffrey Lindell and Robert Bennett eds Parliament: The Vision in Hindsight. The Federation Press, 2001, 249-290.
• ‘Moderating Ministerial Ethics: Putting Political Ethics in its Place’, chapter prepared for J Fleming and I Holland eds Motivating Ministers to Morality. Ashgate Press, 2001, 187-200.
• ‘Accountability and Governance’, ch 8 in Are You Being Served? The State, Citizens, and Governance, eds G Davis and P Weller. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2001, 152-174 (jointly written with Richard Mulgan)

Journal articles:

• ‘The Australian welfare state: has federalism made a difference?’, Australian Journal of Politics and History. 53/1, March 2007, 96-117 (co-author: Francis G Castles)
• ‘Appropriations and the Legislative Process’, 17 Public Law Review 2006, 173-177
• ‘The Australian and New Zealand Parliaments: context, response and capacity’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 41/2, June 2006, 257-272 (co-author: Elizabeth McLeay).

• ‘Professional Ethics for Politicians?’, International Public Management Journal, 8/2, 2005, 247-261.

• ‘Integrity Symposium: How do we know what works?’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 64/2, June 2005,69-76.
• ‘The role of governments: how can it be improved?’, Infrastrusture, special issue of Growth, journal of Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). Issue 54, April, 67-9
• ‘Terra Infirma? Parliament’s uncertain role in the war on terror’, UNSW Law Journal, special issue, 27/2, 2004, 1-15.
• ‘Parliament and the Executive’, AdelaideLaw Review, University of Adelaide, 25/1, 2004, 51-65.
• ‘The Power of One’, in One Hundred Years of Women’s Suffrage in Australia:Papers on Parliament, no 41, Canberra: The Senate, June 2004, 47-63.
• ‘Competing Models of Integrity’, Res Publica (U. Melbourne), 11/2, December 2002, 13-16
• ‘Explicating the Australian Senate’, Journal of Legislative Studies, 8/3, Autumn 2002, 3-26
• ‘Parliament and Public Deliberation: Evaluating the Performance of Parliament’. University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol 24, no 3, November 2001, 708-723.
• ‘Marketing Parliamentary Committees’, Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, no98, December 2000, 38-41; republished in Australasian Parliamentary Review 16.2, Spring 2001, 101-9.

Teaching

• Policy Advocacy
• Ethics and Public Policy
• Political Science Hons.: ‘The morality of international action’.