Dr Nicholas Economou - Researcher Profile

Biography

Dr Nick Economou, a PhD graduate from the University of Melbourne, is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry. Nick has been teaching Australian politics and governance at Monash since 1992, and, prior to this, taught at the then Swinburne Institute and the former Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education (now Monash Gippsland). In amongst all of this he was also the Sir Robert Menzies lecturer in Australian Studies at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (London University) between 1995 and 1996 – an experience that saw him nearly freeze to death, and develop an unhealthy liking for pie and mash and the Millwall football club.

Nick is an habitual commentator on Australian politics and a pundit on behalf of a number of media outlets that have included the ABC, the BBC and various newspapers. Nick has a great interest in national and state politics, including the electoral contest and sometimes he even gets it right.

This interest in all matters Australian has also been reflected in his scholarly publications. These have included books such as The Kennett Revolution (co-edited with Brian Costar), Media, Politics and Power in Australia  (co-authored with Stephen Tanner) and Australian Politics for Dummies (co-authored with Zareh Gazarian). There have also been numerous academic journal articles on subjects ranging from Australian state and federal and even local government elections through to analyses of environmental policy-making. He has also published on Australian political parties, with particular emphasis of the ALP and the Greens.

Nick’s research interests include Australian national and state governance, federal, state and local elections and electoral systems, and the role and behaviour of Australia’s political parties.

Qualifications

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Institution: University of Melbourne, Melbourne

Year awarded: 1999

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1992

ARTS

Institution: UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Year awarded: 1984

Publications

Books

Economou, N.M., Tanner, S., 2008, Media, Power and Politics in Australia, Pearson Education Australia, Australia.

Costar, B.J., Economou, N.M. (eds), 1999, The Kennett Revolution : Victorian politics in the 1990's, UNSW Press, Sydney NSW Australia.

Economou, N.M., 1997, Filling Casual Vacancies in Proportional Representation Systems, Melbourne City Council, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Economou, N., 2012, Political parties as electoral players, in Contemporary Politics in Australia: Theories, Practices and Issues, eds Rodney Smith, Ariadne Vromen and Ian Cook, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 132-141.

Economou, N., 2012, Victoria, in Julia 2010: The Caretaker Election, eds Marian Simms and John Wanna, ANU ePress, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 183-189.

Economou, N.M., 2010, The Labor party, in Government, Politics, Power and Policy in Australia, eds Dennis Woodward, Andrew Parkins and John Summers, Pearson Australia, Frenchs Forest NSW Australia, pp. 210-227.

Economou, N.M., 2007, Measuring social cohesion in a diverse society, in Social Cohesion in Australia, eds James Jupp & John Nieuwenhuysen & Emma Dawson, Cambridge University Press, United States, pp. 33-44.

Economou, N.M., 2006, Jeff Kennett: the larrikin metropolitan, in The Victorian Premiers 1856-2006, eds Paul Strangio and Brian Costar, Federation Press, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 363-381.

Economou, N.M., 2006, The Labor party, in Government, Politics, Power and Policy in Australia, eds Andrew Parkin, John Summers and Dennis Woodward, Pearson Education, Frenchs Forest NSW Australia, pp. 226-244.

Economou, N.M., 2006, Victoria's electoral system, in The Constitution of Victoria, eds Greg Taylor, Federation Press, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 381-402.

Economou, N.M., 2005, Victoria, in Mortgage Nation: The 2004 Australian Election, eds Marian Simms and John Warhurst, Network Books, Perth WA Australia, pp. 183-193.

Economou, N.M., 2004, Politics and the environment policy debate, in The Politics of Australian Society: Political Issues for the New Century, eds Paul Boreham, Geoffrey Stokes, Richard Hall, Pearson Education Australia, Frenchs Forest NSW Australia, pp. 357-372.

Economou, N.M., Costar, B.J., Strangio, P., 2003, Victoria, in Australian Politics and Government: The Commonwealth, the States and the Territories, eds Jeremy Moon and Campbell Sharman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 154-182.

Economou, N.M., Costar, B.J., 2002, Victoria: flawed jewel in the Labor crown?, in 2001: The Centenary Election, eds John Warhurst and Marian Simms, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia Qld Australia, pp. 171-184.

Economou, N.M., 2000, Labor and the Environment: Greening the Workers' Party?, in The Machine: Labor Confronts the Future, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards NSW, pp. 281-299.

Economou, N.M., Costar, B.J., 2000, Victoria, in Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia Qld Australia, pp. 104-112.

Economou, N.M., 1999, Backwards into the Future: National Policy Making, Devolution and the Rise and Fall of the Environment, in Australian Environmental Policy 2: Studies in Decline and Devolution, University of New South Wales Press Ltd, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 65-80.

Costar, B.J., Economou, N.M., 1999, Corporatising Conservation: Environment Policy Under the 'Kennett Revolution', in The Kennett Revolution: Victorian Politics in the 1990s, University of New South Wales Press Ltd, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 193-202.

Costar, B.J., Economou, N.M., 1999, Corporatising Conservation: environment policy under the "Kennett Revolution", in The Kennettt Revolution: Victorian politics in the 1990s, UNSW Press, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 193-202.

Costar, B.J., Economou, N.M., 1999, The Electoral Contest and Coalition Dominance 1992-98, in The Kennett Revolution: Victorian Politics in the 1990s, University of New South Wales Press Ltd, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 122-131.

White, L., Economou, N.M., 1999, The Fourth Estate and the Kennett Government, in The Kennett Revolution: Victorian Politics in the 1990s, University of New South Wales Press Ltd, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 27-36.

Costar, B.J., Economou, N.M., 1999, The electoral contest and coalition dominance 1992-98, in The Kennett Revolution, UNSW Press, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 122-131.

Economou, N.M., Fenna, A., 1998, Green Politics and Environmental Policy in Australia, in Introduction to Australian Public Policy, Addison Wesley Longman Australia, South Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 332-357.

Economou, N.M., 1998, The Politics of Citizenship: Identity, Ethnicity and Race, in Introduction to Australian Public Policy, Addison Wesley Longman Australia, South Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 358-384.

Economou, N.M., 1997, Co-operation and Competition: the Two Faces of Democrat-environmental Movement Relations, in Keeping the Bastards Honest: The Australian Democrats' First Twenty Years, Allen & Unwin, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 251-269.

Economou, N.M., 1997, The "greening" of the Coalition? Environment Policy, in Policy and Change: The Howard Government, Hale & Iremonger Pty Ltd, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 172-181.

Economou, N.M., Costar, B.J., 1997, Victoria: Against the Slide, in The Politics of Retribution: The 1996 Federal Election, Allen & Unwin, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 107-116.

Journal Articles

Economou, N., 2011, Political chronicles - Victoria January to June 2011, Australian Journal Of Politics And History [P], vol 57, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 627-633.

Economou, N., 2011, Political chronicles - Victoria July to December 2010, Australian Journal Of Politics And History [P], vol 57, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 296-302.

Economou, N., 2010, Parties, participation and outcomes: The 2008 Victorian local government elections, Australian Journal of Political Science [P], vol 45, issue 3, September 2010, Routledge, Australia, pp. 425-436.

Economou, N., 2010, Victoria, Australian Cultural History [P], vol 28, issue 1, April 2010, Routledge, Abingdon, United Kingdom, pp. 81-86.

Economou, N.M., 2009, Victoria: January to June 2009, Australian Journal Of Politics And History [P], vol 55, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 208-213.

Economou, N.M., 2009, Victoria: July to December 2008, Australian Journal Of Politics And History [P], vol 55, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 274-279.

Economou, N.M., 2008, Leading or Following? Editorials, Alignments, Elections and the 2007 Federal Election, Communication, Politics and Culture, vol 41, issue 2, RMIT University, School of Applied Communication, Australia, pp. 30-46.

Economou, N.M., 2008, Changing the rules to change the house: Electoral reform and the 2006 electoral contest for the Victorian legislative council, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 43, issue 4, Routledge, UK, pp. 635-648.

Economou, N.M., 2008, Victoria: January to June 2008, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 54, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 622-627.

Economou, N.M., 2008, Victoria: July to December 2007, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 54, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 302-308.

Economou, N.M., 2007, Victoria: January to June 2007, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 53, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 627-633.

Economou, N.M., 2006, A Right-of-Centre triumph: the 2004 Australian half-Senate election, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 41, issue 4, Routledge, UK, pp. 501-516.

Economou, N.M., 2006, Book reviews: Eric Louw, the media and political process, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 41, issue 3, Routledge Journals, Abingdon England, pp. 491-492.

Economou, N., 2006, The landslide revisited? The 2006 Victorian election, Democratic Audit of Australia, vol 2006, issue 38, Democratic Audit of Australia, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 1-11.

Economou, N., 2006, Victoria: January to June 2006, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 52, issue 4, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford England, pp. 650-656.

Economou, N., 2006, Victoria: July to December 2005, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 52, issue 2, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford England, pp. 298-303.

Economou, N.M., Reynolds, M.A., 2003, Who voted Green?: a review of the Green vote in the 2002 Victorian State election, People and Place, vol 11, issue 3, Centre for Population and Urban Research, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 57-68.

Economou, N.M., 2001, The regions in ferment? The politics of regional and rural disenchantment, Alternative Law Journal, vol 26, issue 2, Legal Service Bulletin Co-operative Ltd, Australia, pp. 69-73.

Economou, N.M., 2000, Victoria: January to June 2000, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 46 issue 4, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford UK, pp. 569-575.

Economou, N.M., 2000, Victoria: June to December 1999, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 46 issue 2, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford UK, pp. 226-237.

Economou, N.M., 1999, Nicholas Peterson and Will Sanders (eds), Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 34 issue 2, Carfax Publishing, Basingstoke UK, pp. 281-282.

Economou, N.M., 1999, The Trouble-Maker's Ballot Box? A Note on the Evolving Role of the Australian Federal By-Election, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 34 issue 2, Carfax Publishing, Basingstoke UK, pp. 239-247.

Economou, N.M., 1999, Victoria: January to June 1999, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 45 issue 4, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford UK, pp. 564-572.

Economou, N.M., 1999, Victoria: July to December 1998, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 45 issue 2, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford UK, pp. 264-271.

Economou, N.M., 1998, Victoria January to June 1998, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 44 no 4, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford UK, pp. 582-588.

Economou, N.M., 1998, Victoria July to December 1997, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 44 no 2, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford UK, pp. 254-261.

Economou, N.M., 1997, Book Review: The Unmaking of Gough, Australian Studies, vol 12, Frank Cass Publishers, London UK, pp. 168-169.

Economou, N.M., 1997, Book Review: Winning and Losing - Australian National Elections, Just Policy, vol june 1997, Victorian Council of Social Service, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 56-57.

Economou, N.M., 1997, How Did She Do It? Hanson is as Hanson Does, Arena Magazine, vol february-march 1997, Arena Printing and Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 35-37.

Conference Proceedings

Economou, N., 2010, Back on the 'issues attention cycle': labour and envrironment policy from Hawke to Rudd, Australian Political Studies Association Conference 2010, 27 September 2010 to 29 September 2010, Australian Political Studies Association, http://apsa2010.com.au/full-papers.php, pp. 1-10.

Economou, N.M., Ghazarian, Z., 2008, Vale the Australian Democrats: Organisational Failure and Electoral Decline, Australian Political Studies Association Conference Proceedings, 6 -9 July 2008, The University of Queensland, Australia, pp. 1-16.

Economou, N.M., 2007, What happened to Rural Weightage? Malapportionment and the Reform of Australian Electoral Systems under Labor, APSA Annual Conference 2007, 24-26 September 2007, Monash University Sch of Political & Social Inquiry, Australia, pp. 1-24.

Economou, N.M., 2006, Underpinning cartelisation?: re-thinking the compulsory voting debate in Australia, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, 25 September 2006 to 27 September 2006, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle NSW Australia, pp. 1-23.

Other

Bouma, G.D., Lentini, P., Dellal, H., Halafoff, A., Wright-Neville, D.P., Economou, N.M., 2007, Introducing Australia: A course for Clergy new to Australia, Sch of Political & Social Inquiry and the Australian Multicultural Foundation, Australia, pp. 1-15.

Economou, N.M., 2007, Kevin Rudd: An Unauthorised Political Biography by Nicholas Stuart, Review of Biography of Kevin Rudd, Reviews in Australian Studies, Australia.

Economou, N.M., 2007, Of reform and race: Assessing the Howard decade, Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past Since 1788, Thomson Learning, Victoria Australia.

Economou, N.M., 1999, Ominous Signs for the Premier, 'Herald Sun' article, Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Economou, N.M., 1998, Natural Resource Policy, International Encylcopedia of Public Policy and Administration, vol 3, issue L-Q, Westview Press, Boulder USA, pp. 1481-1484.

Economou, N.M., 1997, A Public Loss of Faith, Herald-Sun, Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Economou, N.M., 1997, Greens Chance Has Come and Gone, Brisbane Courier Mail, Brisbane Courier Mail, Brisbane Qld Australia.

Economou, N.M., 1997, Poll Result Heralds Strife for Kennett, The Age, The Age, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Economou, N.M., 1997, So, Policy is Still the Best Policy, Herald-Sun, Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Political parties and Australian democracy.

Supervisors:

Economou, N (Main), Miragliotta, N (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Should Australia adopt a hedging strategy regarding China?.

Supervisors:

Economou, N (Main), Sun, W (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Voting in post-industrial democracies: the changing relationship between education, occupation and political attitudes.

Supervisors:

Economou, N (Joint-co), Hutchins, B (Joint).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

political reporting and public debate.

Supervisors:

Economou ((Double Id)), N (Main), Miragliotta, N (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Ghazarian, Z.

Program of Study:

Australian minor parties in transition in the senate, 1949-2007. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Economou, N (Main), Woodward, D (Associate).

Student:

King, J.

Program of Study:

The pluralist-statist dynamic of the refugee policy process in Australia: the case of the Kosovar safe haven visa. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Economou, N (Main), Pickering, S (Associate).

Student:

O'Reilly, D.

Program of Study:

HEIRS OF ETERNAL LIBERALISM: THE THIRD WAY FROM AUSTRALIA TO BRITAIN. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Economou, N (Main).

Student:

Stanton, R.

Program of Study:

SAGA CITY: PATTERNS OF INFLUENCE IN POLITICS, PUBLIC RELATIONS AND JOURNALISM - PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATORS IN A REGIONAL CITY. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Economou, N (Main).