I M Ward
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3591191 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | I M Ward |
| NOMBRES | I M |
| APELLIDO | Ward |
| FIRMA | WARD I M |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8398-4911 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Shakespeare’s testament
The year 1623 is not one which tends to set racing the historical pulse. Indeed, if it were not for the publication of the First Folio it would be barely remembered at all. But if we look a little more closely, we can identify some events of that year which inhere a curious prescience. The first part of this essay looks at three of these events. The first is the Amboyna ‘massacre’, an early portent of the bloodshed which would attend the advance …
Law, Literature and History
Law and literature is a vital engagement, in the strictest sense of the word. Constantly evolving as it reaches further across disciplinary margins. The purpose of this article is to take a closer look at one such reach; into history. From both sides, it might be supposed. Revisiting two historical texts, and two modern texts set in the past. The first part of the article explores the idea of writing history, more particularly still the possibili…
‘I Am the King Himself’
This article revisits the kingship of James VI of Scotland and I of England. It argues that there were two defining features of this kingship, its style and its reach. The first is the nature of its absolutism, which drew heavily upon the writings of the Roman public philosopher Seneca. The second is the aspiring imperialism. James cherished the idea of a formal ‘union’ of his crowns, again deriving inspiration from classical Rome. The first part…
Disposable Leaders
Disposable Leaders: Media and Leadership Coups from Menzies to Abbott. By Rodney Tiffen (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2017), pp.vii + 296, AU$34.99 (pb)
Democratic Civility and the Dangers of Niceness
Contemporary debates about the virtue of civility oscillate between anxious calls for more of it in contemporary politics, as a panacea for all manner of religious-political conflict, and wholesale debunkings of civility talk, as an ideological fog intended to induce conformity to the terms of unjust social arrangements. I argue that this oscillation should come as no surprise, given the term's fraught theological and political associations in th…
Physic Beneath the Sugar
Ralph the Heir, first published in serial form during 1870 and the first part of 1871, remains one of Anthony Trollope’s least commonly read novels, and one of those which has tended to attract the least critical attention too. Such relative neglect is ill-deserved. As this article suggests, Ralph retains a particular interest as one of Trollope’s most obviously political novels, and in some senses one of his most obviously autobiographical too; …
Secularism on the Edge
This is an edited volume of papers and interviews drawn mostly from an academic conference of the same name at Georgetown University’s Program for Jewish Civilization in February 2013. Volumes of this kind feature certain well-known limitations: rather than elaborating a scholarly approach at length or investigating a case in-depth, they often gather a series of reflections that may or may not hang together coherently. What such volumes can do we…
Women, Law and John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill's intellectual reputation is unarguable; his liberal credentials seemingly impeccable. Moreover there seems to be a Mill for everyone; liberal, radical, feminist. The precise nature of the feminist Mill has however remained a matter of considerable debate. The purpose of this article is less to engage this speculation, but rather to invite closer consideration of what Mill actually said and wrote about women and the law in ninete…
Tea Party imitators? The campaign against the carbon tax, the media and a new uncivil politics
The Gillard government's decision to reverse an election promise to not introduce a carbon tax prompted protest rallies around Australia during 2011–12. Beneath the hyperbole of critics who dismissed these protests as imitating US Tea Party extremism lies an intriguing possibility: that these are each examples of a new form of right-wing political expression enabled by structural changes in the media. This article considers the nature of the anti…
Parliament on “the Wireless” in Australia
Australia's parliament allowed the radio broadcast of proceedings in 1946, a decade after New Zealand, but well before the “Mother of all Parliaments” in 1978. In keeping with Australia's reputation as a pioneering democracy, early interest in broadcasting parliamentary debates can be traced to the 1920s. In the formative years of “wireless” it was imagined radio might close the gap between parliaments and the public. Proceedings of the New South…
Would John Stuart Mill have Regulated Pornography
John Stuart Mill dominates contemporary pornography debates where he is routinely invoked as an authoritative defence against regulation. This article, by contrast, argues that a broader understanding of Mill's ethical liberalism, his utilitarianism, and his feminism casts doubt over such an assumption. New insights into Mill's approach to sex, sexual activity, and the regulation of prostitution reveal an altogether more nuanced and activist appr…
Lord Mansfield
On Friday 2 June 1780 a crowd of 60,000 marched on Westminster Palace, wearing blue cockades in their hats. The cockades symbolized their anti-Catholic sympathies. Their leader was ‘mad’ Lord Georg
The Case of Beatrice Brooke
Journal Article The Case of Beatrice Brooke: Fictions of Law and Marriage in Caroline Norton's Lost and Saved (1863) Get access Ian Ward Ian Ward 1University of Newcastle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 17, Issue 2, 1 June 2012, Pages 206–220, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2012.685597 Published: 01 June 2012
Gender and Leader Effects in the 2010 Australian Election
The impact of voters’ gender on leader evaluations in parliamentary systems has been largely unexplored, while the impact of female leaders on voter attitudes and preferences remains to be fully established. This paper uses Julia Gillard’s historic candidacy in the 2010 Australian federal election to explore how voters evaluated Australia’s first female prime minister, and to test the impact of their assessments on vote choice. The authors also e…
In Search of Healing Voices
One of the distinguishing features of contemporary legal studies is a desire to contextualize, to reflect upon the law in relation to other disciplines. The relation of religion and law is, of course, a prime example of such contextual or interdisciplinary engagement. But there are many others. Among the more recent, and most popular, is law and literature. The purpose of this article is to present a case-study in law and literature, one which ad…
Faith in Politics
Journal Article Faith in Politics: Religion and Liberal Democracy. By Bryan T. McGraw Get access Faith in Politics: Religion and Liberal Democracy. By Bryan T. McGraw. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 320 pages. $33.99. Ian Ward Ian Ward University of Maryland [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 79, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 1107–1109,…
Does the Internet Encourage Small Parties? A Case Study of the Minutiae of BC Politics, 1996–2009
Researchers remain divided on what Small describes as 'a key debate in the cyber-campaigning literature' – whether or not the emergence of the Internet enhanced the prospects of small parties on the periphery of mainstream politics that speak for those whose voices might otherwise go unheard. Often researchers have approached this question by seeking to establish if small parties are indeed able to maintain an on-line presence that matches that o…
Democracy After Secularism
Research Article| January 01 2010 Democracy After Secularism Ian Ward Ian Ward Ian Ward is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2010) 19 (2): 30–36. https://doi.org/10.5325/goodsociety.19.2.0030 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ian Ward; Democracy After Secularism. The Good Society 1 January…
Queensland
Queensland makes up nearly one-quarter of the Australian continent. After a redistribution that added the new seat of Flynn, it contained twenty-nine House of Representatives divisions. Both major parties agreed that it would be a key battle ground in the 2007 federal election. The election of the Queenslander Kevin Rudd as its leader gave the ALP a desperately-needed fillip in a state in which it held just nine seats. In all its key elements Lab…
The prejudices of Mary Hays
During the 1790s, Mary Hays was one of the most influential radical novelists and polemicists in England. She counted amongst her closest friends and mentors the likes of Joseph Johnson, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. During this tumultuous final decade of the century, she published two novels, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice . Both were controversial in the extreme, attracting the opprobrium of conservative crit…
Pornography, Pragmatism, and Proscription
The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 criminalizes the possession of extreme pornography, namely, images of bestiality, necrophilia, and life‐threatening or serious violence, and is the immediate context for this article which seeks to present a pragmatic liberal humanist critique of pornography regulation. Such a critique, derived in particular from the writings of Nussbaum and Rorty, presents an alternative case for regulation, eschewin…
Helping the Dead Speak
In the wake of the “hermeneutical turn,” two approaches to textual interpretation have come to wield considerable disciplinary influence in North American political theory circles: those of Leo Strauss and Quentin Skinner. Their respective approaches to texts in the history of political thought are generally regarded as competitor endeavors; indeed, the view that these approaches are downright antithetical enjoys the status of a disciplinary comm…
The Case of Helen Huntingdon
The Case of Helen Huntingdon Ian Ward Of course it never happened: Huntingdon v. Huntingdon. There was no “case” of Helen Huntingdon, at least not in formal juristic terms. That is the issue. Helen Huntingdon was unhappily married, subject to various forms of spousal abuse. But the law offered no respite. Instead, it left her with a choice: put up with it, or run away. It was not an uncommon dilemma in mid-nineteenth-century England. It was, howe…
Towards a Poethics of Terror
The contempoprary experience of terrorism asks considerable questions of classical conceptions of law and legal theory in the field of political violence. These questions are rooted in problems of definition, and they are not reserved to the discipline of law. It has been argued that terrorism is an innately mythic construct, and that the world in which the terrorist, and counter-terrorist, operates, is one of collective enchantment. This article…
Emily Brontë and the Terrorist Imagination
Additional informationNotes on contributorsIan WardIan Ward is Professor at the Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle, UK
Gender and Leader Effects in the 2010 Australian Election
The impact of voters’ gender on leader evaluations in parliamentary systems has been largely unexplored, while the impact of female leaders on voter attitudes and preferences remains to be fully established. This paper uses Julia Gillard’s historic candidacy in the 2010 Australian federal election to explore how voters evaluated Australia’s first female prime minister, and to test the impact of their assessments on vote choice. The authors also e…
The changing organisational nature of Australia's political parties
(1991). The changing organisational nature of Australia's political parties. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 153-174
Localizing the National
Pippa Norris provides a schematic account of the evolution of campaigning through premodern, modern and postmodern stages. In particular she points to an emerging postmodern phase of electioneering characterized by a renewed emphasis upon direct forms of engagement which resonate with an earlier period in which campaigns were locally fought and largely dependent upon the canvassing efforts of party workers and volunteers. Norris's analysis offers…
Election Campaigns and Television News Coverage
This paper examines the patterns of television news coverage of the political parties, their leaders and the issues they raised during the 2001 Australian federal election campaign. By focusing on some issues, parties and leaders, television has long been argued to constrain voters' evaluations. We find that television news coverage in the 2001 Australian election campaign focused primarily on international issues, especially terrorism and asylum…
Media Intrusion” and the Changing Nature of the Established Parties in Australia and Canada
Media intrusion theory holds that the advent of electronic media, especially television, has accelerated or even precipitated party decline. This is evidently borne out by the declining membership of, and weakening support for, the two major Australian parties which each enthusiastically embraced new forms of political communication. However, “media intrusion” has arguably strengthened rather than weakened Canada's already frail brokerage parties…
Helping the Dead Speak
In the wake of the “hermeneutical turn,” two approaches to textual interpretation have come to wield considerable disciplinary influence in North American political theory circles: those of Leo Strauss and Quentin Skinner. Their respective approaches to texts in the history of political thought are generally regarded as competitor endeavors; indeed, the view that these approaches are downright antithetical enjoys the status of a disciplinary comm…
Rich, Wrinkly and Rowdy politicians
Australian legislators have expressed concern about the indifference shown by young Australians toward government (SSCEET 1988, 1991). Those educators who have taken up their call for programmes in ‘active citizenship’ must look closely at what adolescents take from TV news. TV has sometimes been blamed for popular disenchantment with politics. Such arguments have been rejected because TV news shows no anti‐institutional bias, but instead underli…
Tea Party imitators? The campaign against the carbon tax, the media and a new uncivil politics
The Gillard government's decision to reverse an election promise to not introduce a carbon tax prompted protest rallies around Australia during 2011–12. Beneath the hyperbole of critics who dismissed these protests as imitating US Tea Party extremism lies an intriguing possibility: that these are each examples of a new form of right-wing political expression enabled by structural changes in the media. This article considers the nature of the anti…
Does the Internet Encourage Small Parties? A Case Study of the Minutiae of BC Politics, 1996–2009
Researchers remain divided on what Small describes as 'a key debate in the cyber-campaigning literature' – whether or not the emergence of the Internet enhanced the prospects of small parties on the periphery of mainstream politics that speak for those whose voices might otherwise go unheard. Often researchers have approached this question by seeking to establish if small parties are indeed able to maintain an on-line presence that matches that o…
An Experiment in Political Communication
The British Columbian Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform comprised a representative group of 160 randomly selected voters who were empowered to review the Province's electoral system and to decide if change was needed. It first met in January 2004 and issued its final report in December of that year. The Assembly has since been hailed as a democratic invention and attracted worldwide interest as a remarkable experiment in deliberative democra…
Pornography, Pragmatism, and Proscription
The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 criminalizes the possession of extreme pornography, namely, images of bestiality, necrophilia, and life‐threatening or serious violence, and is the immediate context for this article which seeks to present a pragmatic liberal humanist critique of pornography regulation. Such a critique, derived in particular from the writings of Nussbaum and Rorty, presents an alternative case for regulation, eschewin…
Shabina Begum and the Headscarf Girls
The issue of headscarves has generated much cultural and political commentary in recent years. It has also been the subject of recent legal proceedings in the UK in the case of SB. The purpose of this article is to examine this case within its broader cultural, textual and interdisciplinary context. The article opens with a discussion of SB. The second part then introduces some of the broader debates which oscillate around the issues of headscarv…
Parties, Governments and Pollsters
In its first term, the Howard government hired Australasian Research Strategies (ARS), headed by pollster Mark Textor, to conduct market research for several Commonwealth departments and agencies. This was, the Labor Opposition claimed, a case of the Liberals handing jobs to their 'mates'. Textor played a key role in the Liberals' 1996 and 1998 federal election campaigns. However, Labor's attack rings hollow since in the 1980s the Hawke governmen…
Law and the Other Europeans
The purpose of this article is to emphasize the role that the law plays in determining who is ‘European’ in the new Europe, and who is not. The first part of the article introduces a critical commentary on the present state of EC law with regard to non‐EC nationals. Necessarily, this also includes a discussion of the role of the European Court of Justice, and such instruments as the Schengen Convention. Having discussed the situation of those who…
Labor's middle‐class membership
The government and local accountability since Layfield
Democratic Civility and the Dangers of Niceness
Contemporary debates about the virtue of civility oscillate between anxious calls for more of it in contemporary politics, as a panacea for all manner of religious-political conflict, and wholesale debunkings of civility talk, as an ideological fog intended to induce conformity to the terms of unjust social arrangements. I argue that this oscillation should come as no surprise, given the term's fraught theological and political associations in th…
Women, Law and John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill's intellectual reputation is unarguable; his liberal credentials seemingly impeccable. Moreover there seems to be a Mill for everyone; liberal, radical, feminist. The precise nature of the feminist Mill has however remained a matter of considerable debate. The purpose of this article is less to engage this speculation, but rather to invite closer consideration of what Mill actually said and wrote about women and the law in ninete…
Would John Stuart Mill have Regulated Pornography
John Stuart Mill dominates contemporary pornography debates where he is routinely invoked as an authoritative defence against regulation. This article, by contrast, argues that a broader understanding of Mill's ethical liberalism, his utilitarianism, and his feminism casts doubt over such an assumption. New insights into Mill's approach to sex, sexual activity, and the regulation of prostitution reveal an altogether more nuanced and activist appr…
The prejudices of Mary Hays
During the 1790s, Mary Hays was one of the most influential radical novelists and polemicists in England. She counted amongst her closest friends and mentors the likes of Joseph Johnson, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. During this tumultuous final decade of the century, she published two novels, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice . Both were controversial in the extreme, attracting the opprobrium of conservative crit…
Towards a Poethics of Terror
The contempoprary experience of terrorism asks considerable questions of classical conceptions of law and legal theory in the field of political violence. These questions are rooted in problems of definition, and they are not reserved to the discipline of law. It has been argued that terrorism is an innately mythic construct, and that the world in which the terrorist, and counter-terrorist, operates, is one of collective enchantment. This article…
A Decade of Europe? Some Reflections on an Aspiration
This article suggests that Europe faces four primary challenges today. The first relates to democracy, as all the anxieties about the ‘democratic deficit’ in Community are writ even larger in the Union. A second issue is that of liberal legalism. Lawyers have long presumed that the ‘new’ Europe has been integrated ‘through’ law. This article suggests that the role of law is of far less importance to the future of the Union. A third problem, perha…
Fairyland and its Fairy Kings and Queens
Fairyland and its Fairy Kings and Queens' is a review article of a collection of essays examining the responses to the death of Princess Diana, entitled 'After Diana: Irreverent Elegies'. The purpose of this article is to trace the origins of the Diana phenomenon, and particularly that variant which possessed the English political imagination in late summer 1997; and in so doing to investigate further the cultural context of a constitution that i…
Identifying the eurosceptic
Making sense of integration
(1993). Making sense of integration: A philosophy of law for the European community. Journal of European Integration: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 101-136
ALP Candidates and campaign workers in Victoria
(1980). ALP Candidates and campaign workers in Victoria. Politics: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 72-76
The government and local accountability since Layfield
Labor's middle‐class membership
A battle in the Bush
An intriguing aspect of rural Australian politics has been the occasional capacity of one of the conservative parties to make sudden, substantial electoral gains at the other's expense. C.A. Hughes (1985:53) has suggested that, in order to understand Liberal‐National rivalry, we ought not dwell upon demographic variables but need undertake detailed electoral studies and draw out the importance of ‘the personalities and local popularity of candida…
The changing organisational nature of Australia's political parties
(1991). The changing organisational nature of Australia's political parties. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 153-174
Rich, Wrinkly and Rowdy politicians
Australian legislators have expressed concern about the indifference shown by young Australians toward government (SSCEET 1988, 1991). Those educators who have taken up their call for programmes in ‘active citizenship’ must look closely at what adolescents take from TV news. TV has sometimes been blamed for popular disenchantment with politics. Such arguments have been rejected because TV news shows no anti‐institutional bias, but instead underli…
Making sense of integration
(1993). Making sense of integration: A philosophy of law for the European community. Journal of European Integration: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 101-136
Media Intrusion” and the Changing Nature of the Established Parties in Australia and Canada
Media intrusion theory holds that the advent of electronic media, especially television, has accelerated or even precipitated party decline. This is evidently borne out by the declining membership of, and weakening support for, the two major Australian parties which each enthusiastically embraced new forms of political communication. However, “media intrusion” has arguably strengthened rather than weakened Canada's already frail brokerage parties…
A new media age
Law and literature
A Kantian (re)turn
Europe at the margins: New mosaics of inequality
Identifying the eurosceptic
(Pre)conceptions in European Law
Law and the Other Europeans
The purpose of this article is to emphasize the role that the law plays in determining who is ‘European’ in the new Europe, and who is not. The first part of the article introduces a critical commentary on the present state of EC law with regard to non‐EC nationals. Necessarily, this also includes a discussion of the role of the European Court of Justice, and such instruments as the Schengen Convention. Having discussed the situation of those who…
Commonwealth of Australia
Commonwealth of Australia
The early use of radio for political communication in Australia and Canada
The comparative study of electioneering is an emerging field. One of its driving concerns has been to chart the “Americanisation” or convergence of campaigning methods employed in very different settings. Sometimes the assumption is made that this convergence began with the recognition ‐ first in the USA ‐ that winning elections demands the skilful use of television. A comparison of the early use of radio in election campaigns in Australia and Ca…
Littérature et imaginaire juridique
Leaders’ Debates and Presidential Politics in Australia
During the second of the two 1996 nationally televised ‘great debates’ both rival leaders were momentarily flummoxed by questions unexpectedly directed at them by the moderator. Clearly neither the Prime Minister nor Opposition Leader had rehearsed answers to questions about abortion, crime and national gun law reform. The televising of debates between the leaders during the campaign period is a relatively recent innovation, with its roots direct…
Casting Down Imaginations
Parties, Governments and Pollsters
In its first term, the Howard government hired Australasian Research Strategies (ARS), headed by pollster Mark Textor, to conduct market research for several Commonwealth departments and agencies. This was, the Labor Opposition claimed, a case of the Liberals handing jobs to their 'mates'. Textor played a key role in the Liberals' 1996 and 1998 federal election campaigns. However, Labor's attack rings hollow since in the 1980s the Hawke governmen…
Fairyland and its Fairy Kings and Queens
Fairyland and its Fairy Kings and Queens' is a review article of a collection of essays examining the responses to the death of Princess Diana, entitled 'After Diana: Irreverent Elegies'. The purpose of this article is to trace the origins of the Diana phenomenon, and particularly that variant which possessed the English political imagination in late summer 1997; and in so doing to investigate further the cultural context of a constitution that i…
A Decade of Europe? Some Reflections on an Aspiration
This article suggests that Europe faces four primary challenges today. The first relates to democracy, as all the anxieties about the ‘democratic deficit’ in Community are writ even larger in the Union. A second issue is that of liberal legalism. Lawyers have long presumed that the ‘new’ Europe has been integrated ‘through’ law. This article suggests that the role of law is of far less importance to the future of the Union. A third problem, perha…
Localizing the National
Pippa Norris provides a schematic account of the evolution of campaigning through premodern, modern and postmodern stages. In particular she points to an emerging postmodern phase of electioneering characterized by a renewed emphasis upon direct forms of engagement which resonate with an earlier period in which campaigns were locally fought and largely dependent upon the canvassing efforts of party workers and volunteers. Norris's analysis offers…
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