Dennis Shoesmith

Biographic Data

ID2404217
NAMEDennis Shoesmith
GIVEN NAMESDennis
FAMILY NAMEShoesmith
SIGNATURESHOESMITH D
AFFILIATIONSCharles Darwin University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS14
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Decentralised Governance in Indonesia’s Disadvantaged Regions

    Open AccessDennis Shoesmith, Nathan Franklin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Current Southeast…2020Cited by: 2References: 3

    This article investigates the challenges facing decentralised governance in poor and underdeveloped areas in Eastern Indonesia. The Timor Tengah Selatan (TTS) regency in West Timor in Nusa Tenggara Timur province is taken as a case study. Indonesia’s radical decentralisation programme applied a national model of decentralised governance, not taking into account the different conditions applying to disadvantaged regions ( daerah tertinggal, DRs). …

  • Party Systems and Factionalism in Timor-Leste

    Open AccessDennis ShoesmithARTICLEJournal of Current Southeast…2020Cited by: 1References: 3

    This study identifies and explains the factors that have shaped the evolution of the competitive political party system in East Timor from its beginnings in the 1970s to the difficult and sometimes violent transition since independence in 2002 towards a semi-developed competitive party system. It reviews the organizational character of the two major Parties: FRETILIN and the CNRT and the minor parties in the national parliament and the nature of …

  • The Dichotomous Legacy of the Catholic Church's Opposition to the Philippine Revolution of 1896

    Dennis ShoesmithARTICLEThe European Legacy2020References: 2

    This article examines the repositioning of the Catholic Church in the aftermath of the Philippine Revolution of 1896–98, during the transfer of Spanish to American colonial rule. It reviews the consultations between the outgoing Spanish bishops and the Vatican’s Apostolic Delegate, Placido Chapelle, in January 1900, and the subsequent religious settlement promulgated in the Vatican’s Apostolic Constitution for the Philippine Church, Quae mari Sin…

  • Timor-Leste in 2016

    Dennis ShoesmithARTICLESoutheast Asian affairs2017

    Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the regions dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is a…

  • Is Small Beautiful? Multiparty Politics and Democratic Consolidation in Timor‐Leste

    Open AccessDennis ShoesmithARTICLEAsian Politics & Policy2012References: 9

    Drawing on comparisons of the experience of multiparty politics in postcolonial African states and in Papua New Guinea, this article considers whether the party and electoral systems in Timor‐Leste retard a transition to a consolidated democratic polity. Like FRELIMO in Mozambique, the independence party, FRETILIN, committed to a one‐party regime until both parties adopted multiparty politics from the late 1980s. Since independence, Timor‐Leste h…

  • Timor-Leste

    Dennis ShoesmithCHAPTERSoutheast Asian Affairs 20112011

  • Timor-Leste In 2010

    Dennis ShoesmithARTICLESoutheast Asian affairs2011

    Founded in 1974, Southeast Asian Affairs provides, without fear or favour, informed and in-depth annual analyses of this vibrant region and its component countries. It is the only publication which does this and is in its own class without peers. It is a mandatory reference and read for those seriously interested in knowing Southeast Asia."- Professor A.B. Shamsul, Founding DirectorInstitute of Ethnic Studies, Universiti Bebangsaan Malaysia"Now i…

  • Bibliographie/Bibliography

    Nicholas-Albana, Chung Chien-Peng et al.ARTICLEVerfassung in Recht und Übersee2004

  • Timor-Leste

    Dennis ShoesmithARTICLEAsian Survey2003Cited by: 10References: 3

    The semi-presidential system in the new state of Timor-Leste has institutionalized a political struggle between the president, Xanana Gusmão, and the prime minister, Marí Alkatiri. This has polarized political alliances and threatens the viability of the new state. This paper explains the ideological divisions and the history of rivalry between these two key political actors. The adoption of Marxism by Fretilin in 1977 led to Gusmão's repudiation…

  • Church And Martial Law In The Philippines

    Dennis ShoesmithARTICLESoutheast Asian affairs1979

    The martial law r?gime of President Ferdinand Marcos has widened divisions within the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches in the debate over the political commit ment proper to Christians in the Philippines. Indeed, fundamental divisions had been apparent before September 1972. The churches, like the universities, were caught up in the intellectual ferment which characterized the period before martial law and church leaders were seriously spli…

  • The new woman. The debate on the ‘new woman’ in Melbourne, 1919

    Dennis ShoesmithARTICLEPolitics1973Cited by: 1References: 1