Australian State Politics
See also: Tasmanian politicsVictorian politics
General
S. Rufus Davis (ed), The Government of the Australian States () Longmans .
John Rorke (ed), Politics at State Level — Australia () The Department of Adult Education in the University of Sydney .
Brian Galligan (ed), Australian State Politics () Longman Cheshire ISBN 0 582 71144 4.
Scott Bennett, Affairs of State: Politics in the Australian States and Territories () Allen & Unwin ISBN 1 86373 093 1.
Jeremy Moon and Campbell Sharman (eds), Australian Politics and Government: The Commonwealth, the States and the Territories () Cambridge University Press ISBN 0 521 53205 1.
The Study of the States
Campbell Sharman, ‘The Study of the States’, ch 1 (pp 2–17) in Brian Galligan (ed), Comparative State Policies () Longman Cheshire
Andrew Parkin, ‘The States, Federalism and Political Science: A Fifty-Year Appraisal’ () Australian Journal of Public Administration 62(2) pp 101–112 doi:10.1111/1467-8497.00329 .
Review Articles
Ken Turner, ‘Studying the Australian States: A Review Article’ () Australian Journal of Public Administration 39(1) pp 94–96 doi:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1980.tb00894.x .
Joan Rydon, ‘Studies of Australian State Government’ () Politics 16(2) pp 325–330 doi:10.1080/00323268108401820 .
Ralph Chapman, ‘Studying the States’ () Australian Journal of Public Administration 53(2) pp 262–266 doi:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1994.tb01890.x ISSN 1467-8500 .
Constitutions
James A. Thomson, ‘State Constitutions and Institutional Systems’, ch 9 (pp 177–193) in Brian Galligan (ed), Australian State Politics () Melbourne, VIC: Longman Cheshire
R. D. Lumb, The Constitutions of the Australian States () University of Queensland Press ISBN 0 7022 2218 6
Gerard Carney, The Constitutional Systems of the Australian States and Territories () Cambridge University Press ISBN 978-0-521-86305-6
Executives
Roger Wettenhall, Organising Government: The Uses of Ministries and Departments () Surry Hills, NSW: Croom Helm pp 298 ISBN 0 949614 15 7
John Halligan, ‘State Executives’, ch 3 (pp 40–65) in Brian Galligan (ed), Comparative State Policies () Melbourne, VIC: Longman Cheshire
Premiers
Campbell Sharman, Owen Hughes, and Kevin Tuffin, ‘State Premiers’, ch 12 (pp 229–243) in Brian Galligan (ed), Australian State Politics () Melbourne, VIC: Longman Cheshire
Norman Abjorensen, Leadership and the Liberal Revival: Bolte, Askin and the Post-war Ascendancy () North Melbourne, VIC: Australian Scholarly Publishing pp 228 ISBN 978 1 74097 151 5
Foreign Affairs
Hugh Collins, ‘A Political Science Perspective’, ch 8 (pp 184–191) in Brian Galligan (ed), Australian Federalism () Longman Cheshire
Henry Burmester, ‘A Legal Perspective’, ch 9 (pp 192–216) in Brian Galligan (ed), Australian Federalism () Longman Cheshire
Judiciaries
James A. Thomson, ‘State Courts and the Judicial Process’, ch 4 (pp 66–78) in Brian Galligan (ed), Comparative State Policies () Melbourne, VIC: Longman Cheshire
Legislatures
Upper Houses
Bruce Stone, ‘Bicameralism and Democracy: The Transformation of Australian State Upper Houses’ () Australian Journal of Political Science 37(2) pp 267–281 doi:10.1080/10361140220148142 ISSN 1036-1146