Prof Jim Walter - Researcher Profile

Biography

Professor James Walter is Professor of Political Science in the School of Political and Social Inquiry. He has broad interests in Australian politics and history. He holds a B.A. (Hons) and a Ph.D from the University of Melbourne, and an M.A from La Trobe. Professor Walter is a former Head of the School of Political and Social Inquiry (2006-2009), and a past President of the Australian Political Studies Association (2007-8). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (and served on the Academy’s Executive 2006-2009), and of the Royal Society of Arts and Manufactures (UK). Prior to his appointment at Monash, he was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Arts) at Griffith University (1996-2002), and Professor of Australian Studies (1987-2002). He remains a Professor Emeritus at Griffith University. He was Professor and Head of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at the University of London, 1990-1993.

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Qualifications

PH D

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1980

MA

Institution: La Trobe University

Year awarded: 1974

BA (HONS)

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1972

Publications

Books

Walter, J., Moore, T., 2010, What Were They Thinking? The Politics of Ideas in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, Australia.

Walter, J.A., Strangio, P., 2007, No, Prime Minister: Reclaiming Politics from Leaders, UNSW Press, Sydney Nsw Australia.

Saunders, P., Walter, J.A. (eds), 2005, Ideas and Influence: Social Science and Public Policy in Australia, University of New South Wales Press Ltd, Sydney NSW Australia.

Walter, J.A., MacLeod, M., 2002, The Citizens' Bargain: A Documentary History of Australian Views since 1890, University of New South Wales Press Ltd, Sydney NSW Australia.

Book Chapters

Walter, J.A., 2012, Democratic Ambivalence? Ministerial attitudes to party and parliamentary scrutiny, in Ministerial Careers and Accountability in the Australian Commonwealth Government, eds Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 67-93.

Walter, J., 2011, Managers or messiahs? Prime ministerial leadership and the transition to government, in How Power Changes Hands: Transition and Succession in Government, eds Paul 't Hart and John Uhr, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire UK, pp. 37-54.

Walter, J.A., 2010, Political leadership, in Government, Politics, Power and Policy in Australia, eds Dennis Woodward, Andrew Parkin and John Summers, Pearson Australia, Frenchs Forest NSW Australia, pp. 318-334.

Walter, J.A., 2009, 'My heart bleeds': Personalities, Ideas and the Drama of Fusion, in Confusion: The Making of the Australian Two-Party System, eds Paul Strangio and Nick Dyrenfurth, Melbourne University Publishing, Australia, pp. 188-224.

Walter, J.A., 2009, Political Biography, in The Australian Study of Politics, eds R.A.W. Rhodes, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, pp. 97-106.

Walter, J.A., 2009, Political Psychology, in The Australian Study of Politics, eds R. A. W. Rhodes, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, pp. 356-365.

Peel, M.A., Reed, L., Walter, J.A., 2009, The importance of friends: the most recent past, in Friendship: A History, eds Barbara Caine, Equinox Publishing, London, pp. 317-355.

Walter, J.A., 2008, Is there a command culture in politics? The Canberra Case, in Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices, eds Paul't Hart and John Uhr, ANU ePress, Australia, pp. 189-201.

Walter, J.A., 2006, Political leadership, in Government, Politics, Power and Policy in Australia, eds Andrew Parkin, John Summers and Dennis Woodward, Pearson Education, Frenchs Forest NSW Australia, pp. 312-326.

Walter, J.A., 2006, The 'life myth', 'short lives' and dealing with live subjects in political biography, in Australian Political Lives: Chronicling Political Careers and Administrative Histories, eds Tracey Arklay, John Nethercote and John Wanna, ANU ePress, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 29-34.

Walter, J.A., 2006, What if Whitlam had won another opportunity to implement his program?, in What if?, eds Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer, Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton Vic Australia, pp. 138-160.

Walter, J.A., 2006, Why prime ministers go too far: the case of John Howard, in Australian Security After 9/11 New and Old Agendas, eds Derek McDougall and Peter Shearman, Ashgate, Hampshire England, pp. 189-206.

Saunders, P., Walter, J.A., 2005, Introduction: reconsidering the policy sciences, in Ideas and Influence. Social Science and Public Policy in Australia, eds Peter Saunders, and J ames Walter, UNSW Press, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 1-20.

Walter, J.A., 2004, Courtice, Benjamin (1885-1972), in The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, eds Ann Millar, Melbourne University Press, Carlton Vic Australia, pp. 363-366.

Walter, J.A., Lever, S., 2004, Cultural export and policy caprice: the relationship between Australian Studies and government, in Thinking Australian Studies: Teaching Across Cultures, eds David Carter, Kate Darian-Smith and Gus Worby, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia Qld Australia, pp. 72-89.

Walter, J.A., 2004, Elites, politics and publics, in Us and Them: Anti-Elitism in Australia, eds Marian Sawer and Barry Hindess, API Network, Perth WA Australia, pp. 203-224.

Walter, J.A., 2003, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: 'the populist autocrat', in The Premiers of Queensland, eds Denis Murphy, Roger Joyce, Margaret Cribb and Rae Wear, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia Qld Australia, pp. 304-336.

Walter, J.A., 2002, 'The solace of doubt' ? Biographical methodology after the short twentieth century, in Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography, eds Peter France and William St Clair, Oxford University Press, New York USA, pp. 321-333.

Walter, J.A., 2000, The End of Geography? An Australian Experience of New Media & 'Borderless Education', in Universitatsentwicklung und Neue Medien, eds G. Anker, U. Hugl and S. Laske, Duetscher Universitats- Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 177-190.

Journal Articles

Walter, J.A., 2008, Political leaders and their Publics, International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, vol 5, issue 3, Wiley InterScience, UK, pp. 153-170.

Walter, J.A., 2007, Handbook of Psychobiography [Book review], Political Psychology, vol 28, issue 2, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford England, pp. 257-259.

Walter, J.A., 2007, Howard's strength, Journal of Australian Studies, vol 91, issue JAS 91, Australia Research Inst, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia, pp. 59-68.

Walter, J.A., 2006, Friendships in the hothouse: power, politics and the possibilities of friendship, History Australia, vol 3, issue 2, Monash University ePress, Vic Australia, pp. 39.1-39.10.

Walter, J.A., 2006, Labor's cottage industry, Australian Book Review, vol 284, Australian Book Review Inc., Richmond South Vic Australia, pp. 11-12.

Walter, J.A., 2006, Ministerial staff and the 'lattice of leadership', Democratic Audit of Australia, vol 2006, issue 13, Democratic Audit of Australia, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 1-7.

Walter, J.A., 2006, Ministers, minders and public servants: changing parameters of responsibility in Australia, Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol 65, issue 3, Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd, Carlton South Vic Australia, pp. 22-27.

Moore, T.W., Walter, J.A., 2006, State socialism in Australian political thought: a reconsideration, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 52, issue 1, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 13-29.

Walter, J.A., 2006, The Longest Decade, Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol 65, issue 4, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford England, pp. 123-124.

Walter, J.A., 2006, The utility of short lives, Biography, vol 29, issue 2, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu USA, pp. 329-337.

Walter, J.A., 2005, Geoffrey Hawker, Politicians All: The Candidates for the Australian Commonwealth Election 1901A collective Biography, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 39, issue 3, Routledge, Abingdon UK, p. 664.

Walter, J.A., 2005, Lattice of leadership, Australian Book Review, vol 273, Australian Book Review Inc., Richmond South Vic Australia, p. 35.

Walter, J.A., 2004, Aussie battler, or worldly opportunist?, Australian Universities' Review, vol 46, issue 2, National Tertiary Education Union, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 7-8.

Walter, J.A., 2004, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: The Lord's Premier, Australian Journal of Politics & History, vol 50, issue 1, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Carlton Vic Australia, pp. 130-131.

Walter, J.A., 2004, Lindy Edwards, How to Argue with an Economist, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 39, issue 1, Routledge Journals, Abingdon England, pp. 233-234.

Walter, J.A., 2004, Maggie Thatcher: my part in her downfall, Meanjin, vol 63, issue 3, Meanjin Company Ltd, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 149-156.

Walter, J.A., 2003, Sowing the seeds, Australian Book Review, vol 256, Australian Book Review Inc., Richmond South Vic Australia, pp. 15-16.

Walter, J.A., 2003, The Changing World of Top Officials: Mandarins or Valets?, Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol 62, issue 1, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Carlton Vic Australia, pp. 111-113.

Walter, J.A., 2001, Designing families and solid citizens: the dialectic of modernity and the Matrimonial Causes Bill, 1959, Australian Historical Studies, vol 32, issue 116, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 40-56.

Conference Proceedings

Walter, J., 2010, Elite decision processes and the perception of global imperatives: the rennaissance of court politics, Making Our World Anew: Political Psychology in an Age of Global Challenges, 7 July 2010 to 10 July 2010, International Society of Political Psychology, United States, pp. 1-24.

Walter, J., 2010, Elite decision processes: the 'court politics' debate, 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. 1-11.

Walter, J.A., 2006, "Politics, policy and change: collective biography and the age of uncertainty", APSA Conference University of Newcastle, 25 September 2006 to 27 September 2006, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle Australia, pp. 1-18.

Walter, J.A., 2004, Global civil society and the territorial polity: unfinished business, Integrated Governance: Linking Up Government, Business & Civil Society, 25 October 2004 to 26 October 2004, Monash Governance Research Unit, Caulfield East Vic Australia, pp. 1-10.

Walter, J.A., 2004, Why Howard goes too far: institutional change and the renaissance of groupthink, Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004, 29 September 2004 to 1 October 2004, University of Adelaide, http://www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/, pp. 1-25.

Walter, J., Moore, T., 2002, The new social order? Australia's contribution to 'new liberal' thinking in the interwar period, APSA 50, 2 October 2002 to 4 October 2002, Australasian Political Studies Association, http://arts.anu.edu.au/sss/apsa/apsa50.htm, pp. 1-18.

Other

Walter, J.A., 2007, Alan Fraser Davies (A.F. Davies), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 17, issue 1, Melbourne University Press, Australia, pp. 306-307.

Walter, J.A., 2007, Davies, Alan, The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, vol 1, Oxford University Press, Australia, p. 148.

Walter, J.A., 2007, John Winston Howard by Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen, Review of Biography of Howard, Reviews in Australian Studies, Australia.

Walter, J.A., 2007, Political Biography, The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, vol 1, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 412-415.

Walter, J.A., 2007, Political Leadership, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, vol VII (N-P), Blackwell Publishing, UK, pp. 3441-3445.

Walter, J.A., 2007, Political Leadership, The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, vol 1, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 428-430.

Walter, J.A., 2007, Political Psychology, The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, vol 1, issue 1, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 431-433.

Walter, J.A., 2006, Confession of an autodidact, The Australian, News Corporation, Sydney NSW Australia.

Walter, J.A., 2006, Confession of an autodidact: on understanding Barry Jones, The Australian Literary Review, vol 1, issue 3, Nationwide News Pty Limited, Surry Hills NSW Australia, pp. 7-8.

Walter, J.A., 2006, Keywords in Australian politics, Lingua Franca, ABC Radio National, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Walter, J.A., 2004, Why, when it's storytime at the lodge, the nation listens, The Age, Fairfax Media, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Climate change communication: the role of symbolic politics.

Supervisors:

Walter, J (Main), Mcnevin, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Digging deep: The implementation of climate change policy in coal mining regions..

Supervisors:

Strangio, P (Main), Walter, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

From terrorist to citizen: How people move on from violent extremism..

Supervisors:

Macqueen, B (Joint), Walter, J (Joint-co), Barton, G (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

How to make good global citizens: an empirical investigation of ethical cosmopolitanism.

Supervisors:

Walter, J (Main), Ure, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Is the family-based transport business the best model for public transport outcomes?.

Supervisors:

Stanley, J (Main), Walter, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Power, Politics and Profits: A Case Study of Inequality in Hong Kong..

Supervisors:

Walter, J (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Resituating emotion in the understanding of terrorist violence.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Joint), Walter, J (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Self- Interested State in a Cosmopolitan World.

Supervisors:

Howie, L (Main), Ahmad, I (Associate), Walter, J (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Lewis, C.

Program of Study:

THE HOWARD GOVERNMENT (1996-98): THE EXTENT TO WHICH NON-GOVERNMENT FACTORS INFLUENCED THE COALITION'S ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MIX. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Walter, J (Main), Costar, B (Associate).

Student:

Phillips, A.

Program of Study:

"THE KINGFISH" AND "THE BIG FELLA": A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE POPULIST LEADERSHIP OF HUEY LONG AND JACK LANG. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Strangio, P (Joint-Co), Walter, J (Joint).

Student:

Sheen, V.

Program of Study:

Living insecurity: precarious employment and midlife women. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Walter, J (Main), Lipsig-Mumme, C (Associate).