解读澳大利亚政治

EXPLAINING AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

主讲人：David W. Lovell

        澳大利亚新南威尔士大学人文社会科学学院院长、教授
时  间：2016年4月28日（周四）15:00—17:00

地  点：北京大学廖凯原楼515室

主办单位：北京大学国家治理协同创新中心

           北京大学政府管理学院

           北京大学国家治理研究院

讲座内容：

    The contemporary Australian political scene is a complex one. Most obvious is a rapid change of political leaders – 5 Prime Ministers in 5 years! – within the context of a relatively stable parliamentary and party system. We also see substantial concern about government debt, at the same time as increasing demands for government expenditure in education, health and other social services. Australia is also an extraordinarily diverse society – ‘multicultural’ - because of rapid immigration, with one in four Australians being born overseas, yet a society and political system that is remarkably low in ethnic and religious tensions, and with a political and legal system based on the British model to which all Australians are basically committed. And while party allegiances are weaker among voters, and the role of independents in Parliament has become stronger, Australia is still basically a ‘two-party system’. This presentation will examine the institutional structures and current issues that characterise this contemporary Australian political scene.

主讲人简介：
    David W. Lovell PhD is a Professor of International and Political Studies and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra. He is co-editor of The European Legacy and is a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. He participated in an Australian Human Rights Commission dialogue in Beijing in 1999, which stimulated his long interest in China; in 2006 he spoke at the Beijing Forum on harmony and governance. He has written books on topics including Australian politics, Marxism, communist and post-communist systems, and the history of ideas.