John Uhr

BA in Modern History (1st Class Hons, University of Queensland) ,
MA, PhD in Political Science (University of Toronto)

Professor,
Crawford School of Economics and Government

Research interests/expertise

Ethics in the public sector
Public policy and administration
Public leadership
Democratic theory and practice

Current Projects

Opposition in parliamentary systems (ARC Discovery project)
Institutional strengthening in legislatures
Ethical leadership and democracy
Professional training of parliamentarians (ANZSOG project)
Literature and politics

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.

Book chapters:

‘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:

‘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’.

Contact Details

Telephone:	61 2 6125 3668
Fax:	61 2 6125 3051
Email:	john.uhr@anu.edu.au
Mailing address:	Room 3.25 Sir Roland Wilson Building Email: John.Uhr@anu.edu.au , The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

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