Political Science and International Relations

Senior Honorary Research Fellow
BA LLB Adel., MSc Lond., MA, PhD Qu. (Ont.)
Phone: +61 8 6488 2086 (contact number)
csharman@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Campbell Sharman has a long standing interest in federalism and the effect of institutional rules, both electoral and constitutional, on the political and governmental process in parliamentary systems. He is involved in a continuing project analyzing long term trends in politics and government in Australia based on the Australian Government and Politics Database.

Selected Publications

Books (Edited)

(with Moon, J.) Australian Politics and Government: The Commonwealth, the States and the Territories, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (2003)

Journal Articles

Uncontested Seats and the Evolution of Party Competition, Party Politics, 9:6, pp 679-702 (2003)

A Web-based Database on Australian Government and Politics, Australian Journal of Political Science, 37:2, pp 347-351 (2002)

(with Sayers, A.M., Miragliotta, N.) Trading Party Preferences: The Australian Experience of Preferential Voting, Electoral Studies 21:4, pp 543-560 (2002)

The Pink Slip: Removing the President, The University of Notre Dame Australia Law Review 3, pp 83-94 (2001)

Book Chapters

(with Miragliotta, N.) Western Australia, Mortgage Nation: The 2004 Election, eds Simms, M., & Warhurst, J., Bentley, WA: API Network, 217-224 (2005)

Legislative Institutions, The Cambridge Handbook of Social Sciences in Australia, eds McAllister, I., Dowrick, S., & Hassan, R., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp 249-265 (2003)

(with Moon, J.) Western Australia, Australian Politics and Government: The Commonwealth, the States and the Territories, eds Moon. J., Sharman, C., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp 183-208 (2003)

(with Moon, J.) One System or Nine?, Australian Politics and Government: The Commonwealth, the States and the Territories, eds Moon. J., Sharman, C., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp 239-261 (2003)

Politics at the Margin: Independents and the Australian Political System, Senate Envy (and other lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series, 2001-2002), ed. Walsh, K., Canberra, Department of the Senate, Parliament House, Canberra, pp 53-69 (2002)

Governmental Crises and Constitutional Reform: The Case of WA Inc., Power and Freedom in Modern Politics, eds Moon, J., & Stone, B., Melbourne, University of Western Australian Press, pp 117-128 (2002)

(with Miragliotta, N.) Western Australia, 2001: The Centenary Election, eds Warhurst, J., & Simms, M., Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, pp 197-202 (2002)

Federalism and the Liberal Party, Liberalism and the Australian Federation, ed. Nethercote, J.R., Sydney, The Federation Press, pp 287-302 (2001)

Associate Professor Campbell Sharman