John Mikler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1399472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Mikler |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Mikler |
| SIGNATURE | MIKLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3424-6530 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Recapturing the agenda
The global economy is dominated by transnational corporations. These do not just dominate the global markets for their products and services, they also sit at the centre of global supply, production, and value chains that they strategically coordinate, and thereby control global trade and investment. The result is that arguments for promoting free trade no longer promote free markets but ensure their greater control by these enormous entities. Th…
Gaslighting Australia
Australia has been harshly criticised for inaction on climate change. Previous Australian governments adopted an adversarial stance to counter criticism, notably at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in 2021. How had Australia come to be in this position? We demonstrate it was not through inaction, but proactive government support for the interests of the mining and energy ind…
The Big Four and corporate tax governance
The Big Four professional services firms – PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY – promote, sanction, and regularise the behaviour and practices of business and government. This is especially the case in the area of multinational tax avoidance. This large, and growing, sector of the Big Four's business model places them at the centre of both causing and addressing the problem. Their role is not limited to advising MNCs on complex tax structures. They also a…
The Australian campaign against corporate tax avoidance
In recent years, Australian tax justice campaigners have increasingly focused their efforts on the issue of tax avoidance by corporations operating in Australia. This article analyses the Australian tax justice campaign and explains its role in propelling the issue of corporate tax avoidance onto the public agenda. Drawing on campaign documents, media reporting, and interviews, we analyse the contributions of the key civil society actors and how …
Defending harmful tax practices
This article examines the Australian Senate’s 2015–2017 inquiry into corporate tax avoidance to illuminate the tax strategies used by the multinational corporations (MNCs) most targeted by tax justice campaigners, versus those of particular relevance in an Australian context: mining companies. Using documentary analysis, we examine how these companies discursively defended their tax avoidance strategies. Despite differences in the context in whic…
Political contestation and the emergence of new actors, but who governs? A response to Michael Strange
This is a reply to:Strange, Michael. 2016. “The discursive (de)legitimisation of global governance: political contestation and the emergence of new actors in the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body.” Global Discourse 6 (3): 352–369. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2015.1070019
Climate Innovation
Technological innovation is the most politically palatable avenue for governments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It avoids less palatable alternatives, such as regulating social behaviour. However, technological innovation in advanced, liberal capitalist states such as Australia is the product of the interaction of science possibilities with market demands, and is primarily reliant on the choices of profit‐seeking corporations. Therefo…
Sharing sovereignty for policy outcomes
After the hyperglobalists declared the demise of the nation state in the early 1990s, more sober and qualified analysis soon followed by authors defending its continued relevance. They stressed that states remain central actors in international politics even if they must share their sovereignty with non-state actors. Much of the debate dominating the globalisation literature now revolves around the extent to which states and non-state actors shar…
National regulations for a borderless industry
The digital revolution is a key enabling factor for globalisation. New borderless industries like online gambling are said to be the beneficiaries of it. States are not. Online gambling providers have located their operations in territories that license their operations and the industry has developed self-regulatory codes of practice, while two of the industry's largest markets have taken dramatically opposing regulatory approaches: the US has so…
Plus ça Change? A Varieties of Capitalism Approach to Social Concern for the Environment
To what extent can society and business be sources of informal environmental governance? Because environmental damage occurs in the production process, and the act of consuming the outputs of it, this question is addressed by applying key insights of the Varieties of Capitalism (VOC) approach to social attitudes revealed through responses to the World Values Survey in respect of the United States, Germany and Japan. In addition to considerable va…
Varieties of Capitalism and Technological Innovation for Climate Change Mitigation
Politicians hope that technological innovation will mitigate the threat of climate change and expect that capitalism will most efficiently deliver the necessary technologies. Yet capitalism is not monolithic. The Varieties of Capitalism approach suggests that capitalist states fall within a spectrum between liberal market economies (LMEs) and coordinated market economies (CMEs). How do the relative styles of technological innovation in LMEs versu…
Entrepreneurial States
Sharing sovereignty for global regulation
Globalization is sometimes taken as a synonym for market liberalization, because it is claimed that power has flowed from states to markets. Whether happening as a result of undeniable “forces” or some hegemonic consensus, many on both the left and right of politics agree that this is a reality. However, this article argues that states which share sovereignty with market actors are able to influence outcomes beyond their borders. The cases of fue…
Framing Environmental Responsibility
(2007). Framing Environmental Responsibility: National Variations in Corporations’ Motivations. Policy and Society: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 67-104
Institutional reasons for the effect of environmental regulations
Addressing environmental externalities is traditionally seen as hinging on effective state regulation. It is argued in this article that it is not just the material facts of regulations, such as their stringency and timing, that explain the extent to which firms internalise environmental externalities. The extent to which they do this is better explained by institutional aspects of regulations: how rules are made. This is because the institutiona…
Varieties of Capitalism and Technological Innovation for Climate Change Mitigation
Politicians hope that technological innovation will mitigate the threat of climate change and expect that capitalism will most efficiently deliver the necessary technologies. Yet capitalism is not monolithic. The Varieties of Capitalism approach suggests that capitalist states fall within a spectrum between liberal market economies (LMEs) and coordinated market economies (CMEs). How do the relative styles of technological innovation in LMEs versu…
Institutional reasons for the effect of environmental regulations
Addressing environmental externalities is traditionally seen as hinging on effective state regulation. It is argued in this article that it is not just the material facts of regulations, such as their stringency and timing, that explain the extent to which firms internalise environmental externalities. The extent to which they do this is better explained by institutional aspects of regulations: how rules are made. This is because the institutiona…
Defending harmful tax practices
This article examines the Australian Senate’s 2015–2017 inquiry into corporate tax avoidance to illuminate the tax strategies used by the multinational corporations (MNCs) most targeted by tax justice campaigners, versus those of particular relevance in an Australian context: mining companies. Using documentary analysis, we examine how these companies discursively defended their tax avoidance strategies. Despite differences in the context in whic…
Sharing sovereignty for policy outcomes
After the hyperglobalists declared the demise of the nation state in the early 1990s, more sober and qualified analysis soon followed by authors defending its continued relevance. They stressed that states remain central actors in international politics even if they must share their sovereignty with non-state actors. Much of the debate dominating the globalisation literature now revolves around the extent to which states and non-state actors shar…
Sharing sovereignty for global regulation
Globalization is sometimes taken as a synonym for market liberalization, because it is claimed that power has flowed from states to markets. Whether happening as a result of undeniable “forces” or some hegemonic consensus, many on both the left and right of politics agree that this is a reality. However, this article argues that states which share sovereignty with market actors are able to influence outcomes beyond their borders. The cases of fue…
Framing Environmental Responsibility
(2007). Framing Environmental Responsibility: National Variations in Corporations’ Motivations. Policy and Society: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 67-104
The Australian campaign against corporate tax avoidance
In recent years, Australian tax justice campaigners have increasingly focused their efforts on the issue of tax avoidance by corporations operating in Australia. This article analyses the Australian tax justice campaign and explains its role in propelling the issue of corporate tax avoidance onto the public agenda. Drawing on campaign documents, media reporting, and interviews, we analyse the contributions of the key civil society actors and how …
Institutional reasons for the effect of environmental regulations
Addressing environmental externalities is traditionally seen as hinging on effective state regulation. It is argued in this article that it is not just the material facts of regulations, such as their stringency and timing, that explain the extent to which firms internalise environmental externalities. The extent to which they do this is better explained by institutional aspects of regulations: how rules are made. This is because the institutiona…
Framing Environmental Responsibility
(2007). Framing Environmental Responsibility: National Variations in Corporations’ Motivations. Policy and Society: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 67-104
Entrepreneurial States
Sharing sovereignty for global regulation
Globalization is sometimes taken as a synonym for market liberalization, because it is claimed that power has flowed from states to markets. Whether happening as a result of undeniable “forces” or some hegemonic consensus, many on both the left and right of politics agree that this is a reality. However, this article argues that states which share sovereignty with market actors are able to influence outcomes beyond their borders. The cases of fue…
Sharing sovereignty for policy outcomes
After the hyperglobalists declared the demise of the nation state in the early 1990s, more sober and qualified analysis soon followed by authors defending its continued relevance. They stressed that states remain central actors in international politics even if they must share their sovereignty with non-state actors. Much of the debate dominating the globalisation literature now revolves around the extent to which states and non-state actors shar…
National regulations for a borderless industry
The digital revolution is a key enabling factor for globalisation. New borderless industries like online gambling are said to be the beneficiaries of it. States are not. Online gambling providers have located their operations in territories that license their operations and the industry has developed self-regulatory codes of practice, while two of the industry's largest markets have taken dramatically opposing regulatory approaches: the US has so…
Plus ça Change? A Varieties of Capitalism Approach to Social Concern for the Environment
To what extent can society and business be sources of informal environmental governance? Because environmental damage occurs in the production process, and the act of consuming the outputs of it, this question is addressed by applying key insights of the Varieties of Capitalism (VOC) approach to social attitudes revealed through responses to the World Values Survey in respect of the United States, Germany and Japan. In addition to considerable va…
Varieties of Capitalism and Technological Innovation for Climate Change Mitigation
Politicians hope that technological innovation will mitigate the threat of climate change and expect that capitalism will most efficiently deliver the necessary technologies. Yet capitalism is not monolithic. The Varieties of Capitalism approach suggests that capitalist states fall within a spectrum between liberal market economies (LMEs) and coordinated market economies (CMEs). How do the relative styles of technological innovation in LMEs versu…
Climate Innovation
Technological innovation is the most politically palatable avenue for governments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It avoids less palatable alternatives, such as regulating social behaviour. However, technological innovation in advanced, liberal capitalist states such as Australia is the product of the interaction of science possibilities with market demands, and is primarily reliant on the choices of profit‐seeking corporations. Therefo…
Political contestation and the emergence of new actors, but who governs? A response to Michael Strange
This is a reply to:Strange, Michael. 2016. “The discursive (de)legitimisation of global governance: political contestation and the emergence of new actors in the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body.” Global Discourse 6 (3): 352–369. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2015.1070019
Defending harmful tax practices
This article examines the Australian Senate’s 2015–2017 inquiry into corporate tax avoidance to illuminate the tax strategies used by the multinational corporations (MNCs) most targeted by tax justice campaigners, versus those of particular relevance in an Australian context: mining companies. Using documentary analysis, we examine how these companies discursively defended their tax avoidance strategies. Despite differences in the context in whic…
The Australian campaign against corporate tax avoidance
In recent years, Australian tax justice campaigners have increasingly focused their efforts on the issue of tax avoidance by corporations operating in Australia. This article analyses the Australian tax justice campaign and explains its role in propelling the issue of corporate tax avoidance onto the public agenda. Drawing on campaign documents, media reporting, and interviews, we analyse the contributions of the key civil society actors and how …
The Big Four and corporate tax governance
The Big Four professional services firms – PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY – promote, sanction, and regularise the behaviour and practices of business and government. This is especially the case in the area of multinational tax avoidance. This large, and growing, sector of the Big Four's business model places them at the centre of both causing and addressing the problem. Their role is not limited to advising MNCs on complex tax structures. They also a…
Gaslighting Australia
Australia has been harshly criticised for inaction on climate change. Previous Australian governments adopted an adversarial stance to counter criticism, notably at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in 2021. How had Australia come to be in this position? We demonstrate it was not through inaction, but proactive government support for the interests of the mining and energy ind…
Recapturing the agenda
The global economy is dominated by transnational corporations. These do not just dominate the global markets for their products and services, they also sit at the centre of global supply, production, and value chains that they strategically coordinate, and thereby control global trade and investment. The result is that arguments for promoting free trade no longer promote free markets but ensure their greater control by these enormous entities. Th…
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