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Professor
Marian Sawer BA Hons, MA, PhD ANU Research and teaching interests: Democratic theory and practice, electoral governance, representation, social liberalism, gender, politics and policy, social movements and the state, symbolic communication in politics Office: Haydon-Allen 1180 |
Current Positions
Adjunct Professor, School of Social Sciences, ANU 2006-
Honorary Ambassador for Canberra, 2004-
Member Executive, International Political
Science Association 2006-
Immediate Past Chair IPSA Research Committee 19 2006-
Leader, Democratic Audit of Australia
2002-08, Director Democratic Audit of Australia - ANU 2008-
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, 1996-
Officer of the Order of Australia, 1994-
President of the Australasian Political Studies Association, 1985-86
Current Research
One of Marian's major roles has been leading the ARC-funded
Democratic Audit of Australia.
The second wave of the audit (2005-8) was funded in 2004. The capstone book, Australia: The State of Democracy, is forthcoming from Federation Press, 2008.
Marian has also led an ARC-funded history of Women’s
Electoral Lobby (forthcoming under the title Making Women Count: A History of the Women's Electoral Lobby, University of NSW Press, 2008). In March 2008
Marian co-presented with Roslyn Dundas the Pamela Denoon Lecture in the ANU's Toyota Public Lecture series.

L to R Marian Sawer, Roslyn Dundas
Together with Manon Tremblay (University of Ottawa) and Linda Trimble (University of Alberta) she recently convened a four-country comparative project published by Routledge in May 2006 under the title Representing Women in Parliament: A Comparative Study.

L to R Manon Tremblay, Marian Sawer,
Linda Trimble, Ottawa
Publications
Recent Books:
| 2008. Making Women Count: A history of the Women's
Electoral Lobby in Australia (with Gail Radford), UNSW Press, pp. xvi + 317 Cover |
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| 2008. Women's Movements: Flourishing or in abeyance? (edited with Sandra Grey), London & New York: Routledge, pp. xvi+183 | ![]() |
| 2006. Representing Women in Parliament: A Comparative Study (edited with Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble), London & New York: Routledge, pp. xxi+278 | |
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2004. Us and Them: Anti-Elitism in Australia (edited with Barry Hindess), Perth: API Network, pp. 286 book |
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| 2003. The Ethical State? Social Liberalism in Australia, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp. xii+224 (book) | |
| 2001. Elections: Full, Free and Fair (ed), Sydney: Federation Press, pp. xv+256 (cover) | |
| 2001. Speaking for the People: Representation in Australian Politics (edited with Gianni Zappalå), Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp.xii+330 (cover) |
2008. ‘Framing feminists’, in Yasmeen Abu Laban (ed) Gendering the Nation-State Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 120-38.
2008. ‘Canada sets a radical example on campaign funding’, Australian Policy Online 20 May. (website)
2008. ‘Presence and the Price: Women and the 2007 Australian federal election’, Australian Feminist Studies 23(56), pp. 263-69.(website)
2008. ‘The State of the Discipline: Australasian Political Science’, International Political Science: New theoretical and regional perspectives, IPSA, Montreal, 30 April - 2 May(website)
2008. ‘Introduction’ (with Sandra Grey), in Sandra Grey and Marian Sawer (eds) Women's Movements: Flourishing or in abeyance? London and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-13.
2008. ‘Changing frames: Liberal and feminist perspectives on Harvester’, Dissent, 26, pp. 45-49.
2008. ‘Cartoons for the Cause: Cartooning for Equality in Australia’, in Robert Phiddian and Haydon Manning (eds), Comic Commentators: Contemporary Political Cartooning in Australia,Perth: Network Books, pp. 101-24.
2008. ‘Managing the woman issue: The Australian state and the case of women in agri-politics’(with Barbara Pini and Ruth Panelli), International Feminist Journal of Politics 10 (2), pp. 173-97.
2007. ‘The Fall of the Femocrat’, in Joyce Outshoorn and Johanna Kantola (eds), Changing State Feminism, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 20-40. (website)
2007. ‘Liberalism’(pp. 320-23), Gender’ (pp. 224-27), EMILY's List’ (p. 182), in Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (eds), Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press.
2007. ‘Property voting in local government: A relic of a pre-democratic era?’,
Representation,
43 (1), pp. 45-52.
2007. ‘Wearing Your Colours on Your Sleeve: The Role of Political Colours in Social Movements’,
Social Movement Studies,
6 (1), pp. 39-56.
2007. ‘Red, White and Blue,What Do They Mean to You?’, Papers on Parliament, 46, pp. 111-36.(website)
2006. With Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble, ‘Introduction: Patterns and Practice in the Parliamentary Representation of Women’, in Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble (eds), Representing Women in Parliament: A Comparative Study, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 103-19. (website)
2006. ‘When women support women...EMILY's List and the Substantive Representation of Women in Australia’, in Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble (eds), Representing Women in Parliament: A Comparative Study, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 103-19. (website)
2006. ‘Generations of Advocacy’, in Louise Chappell and Deborah Brennan (eds), No Fit place for Women? Women in NSW Politics, Sydney: University of NSW Press, pp. 200-24.
2006. ‘Property Votes - OK?’,
Democratic Audit of Australia Discussion Paper 23/06. (website)
2006. ‘Harder to vote, easier to donate’,
Australian Policy Online, 8 June. (website)
2006. ‘From Women's Interests to Special Interests: Reframing Equality Claims’, in Louise Chappell
and Lisa Hill(eds), The Politics of Women's Interests,
London and New York: Routledge, pp. 111-29. (website)
2006. ‘Damaging Democracy? Early Closure of Electoral Rolls’, Democratic
Audit of Australia Discussion Paper 5/06. (website)
2006. ‘Above-the-Line Voting: How
Democratic?’ Representation, 41 (4), pp. 286-90. 2005. ‘Mums and Dads of Australia’, in Marian Simms
and John Warhurst (eds), Mortgage Nation: The 2004 Australian Election ,
Bentley, WA: API Network, pp. 243-9. 2005. ‘The Senate and electoral
democracy’, Green: The magazine of the Australian Greens
17 (website)
2005. ‘Framing Multiculturalism - From Social Justice
to Ethnic Grievance Industry’, Mosaic 11 (3), pp. 6 - 10.
2005. ‘The Elites - Who Are They Really?’, The
Sydney Papers 17 (2), pp. 12 - 19.
2005. ‘How Mr Fat Became Ms Bleeding Heart: Market Populism and the Future of the University’, Journal of the Public University
Vol. 2. (website)
2005. ‘The Senate Changeover - Implications for
Democracy’, Democratic
Audit of Australia, July (website)
2005. ‘Canadian Elections - How Democratic?’, Australasian
Canadian Studies, 22 (2) and 23 (1), pp. 5-12. Also available at Democratic
Audit of Australia (website)
2005. ‘Australia and New Zealand’ (with Sandra Grey),
in Yvonne Galligan and Manon Tremblay (eds), Sharing Power: Women, Parliament,
Democracy, Aldershot: Ashgate,
pp. 171-87. 2005. ‘Parliamentary Terms’(with Norm Kelly), Democratic Audit of Australia, February (website)
2005. ‘Audit Values: Reflecting the Complexity of Representative
Democracy’ , Democratic Audit of Australia,
January (website)
2005. ‘Gender Equality in the Age of Governing for the
Mainstream’, UNDAW Expert Group Meeting on National Machinery, Rome, Nov-Dec.
2004 (website) 2004. ‘The Impact of Feminist Scholarship on Australian
Political Science’, Australian Journal of Political Science
39 (3), pp. 553-566 (website) 2004. ‘The Power of Us and Them’, Australian Financial Review, 22 October (website) Reprinted
in Cameron Schraner (ed), 2005 Peace Yearbook, Surry Hills, NSW: People
for Nuclear Disarmament NSW. 2004. ‘Inventing the Nation through the Ballot Box’,
in Pierre Boyer, Linda Cardinal, David Headon (eds) From Subjects to Citizens:
A Hundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada
, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, pp. 61-80. 2004. ‘Replacing Plurality Rule with Majority Preferential
Voting: Creating a Three-Party System’,in Josep M. Colomer (ed) The Handbook
of Electoral System Design , Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 475-86. 2004.‘The Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act: Aspirations
and Apprehensions’ ,Women, Work
and Equity: Special Forum to Mark the 20th Anniversary of the Sex Discrimination
Act (website)
2004.‘Election 2004: How democratic are our elections?’,
Australian Review of Public Affairs, September (website) 2004. ‘Suffrage Centenaries in Comparative
Perspective’, Australian Canadian Studies 22 (1), pp. 115-36. 2004. ‘Comment: The Australian Settlement Undone’,
Australian Journal of Political Science
39 (1), pp. 35-7. 2003. ‘Constructing Democracy’, International
Feminist Journal of Politics 5
(3), pp. 361-5.
2003. ‘The Proliferation of Identity Politics
in Australia: A Critique’, Australian Journal of Political Science
38 (3), pp. 557-60. 2003. ‘Enrolling the people: Electoral innovation
in the new Australian Commonwealth’, in George Williams, Bryan Mercurio and
Graeme Orr (eds), Realising Democracy: Electoral Law in Australia
, Federation Press, pp. 52-65. 2003. ‘From Laborism to Equal Opportunity:
Reinventing the Labor Party’, in Jenny Hocking and Colleen Lewis (eds), It's
Time Again: Whitlam and Modern Labor , Melbourne: Circa, pp. 373-92. 2003.‘They do things differently there -
Democracy in Western Australia’, Democratic Audit of Australia, November (website) 2003.‘Down with Elites: Up with Inequality’,
Drawing Board 27 October ( website)
2003. ‘The Right to Stand but not to
Sit: A Century of Women Candidates for the House of Representatives’, About
the House 17, pp. 20-23. 2003.‘Anti-Elitism at the Turn of the
Millenium’, Dialogue 22 (1), pp. 10-16. 2003.‘The Life and Times of Women’s Policy
in Australia’ in Shirin Rai (ed) Mainstreaming Gender, Democratising the
State? Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women Manchester University Press, pp. 243-63. Republished in paperback by Transaction Publishers, 2007.
2002. ‘Australia: The mandarin approach
to gender budgets’, in Debbie Budlender and Guy Hewitt (eds) Gender Budgets
Make More Cents London: Commonwealth Secretariat, pp. 43-64.
2002. ‘Representation of Women: Meaning
and Make-Believe’, Parliamentary Affairs 55 (1), pp. 5-18. Republished in Karen Ross (ed)Women,
Politics and Change Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 5-18.
2002. ‘Governing for the Mainstream:
Implications for Community Representation’, Australian Journal of Public
Administration 61 (1), pp. 39-49.
2002. ‘Cartoons for the cause: Cartooning
for equality in Australia’, Ejournalist 1 (2), pp. 1-14 ( Website) .
2002. ‘Waltzing Matilda: Gender and Australian
Political Institutions’ in Geoffrey Brennan and Francis G. Castles (eds) Australia
Reshaped: 200 Years of Institutional Transformation Cambridge University Press, pp. 148-80. 2002. ‘Making Democracy Safe for Students’,
Drawing Board , 26 August (Website) 2002. ‘In Safe Hands? Women in the 2001
Election’ in John Warhurst and Marian Simms (eds) 2001: The Centenary Election University of Queensland Press, pp. 253-59. 2001. ‘Inventing the Nation through the
Ballot Box’, Papers on Parliament 37, pp. 69-81. 2001.‘Pacemakers for the world?’ and
‘Political parties, partisanship and electoral governance’ (with James Jupp),
in Elections Full, Free and Fair Federation Press, pp. 1-27 and 216-233. 2001.‘Representing Trees, Acres, Voters
and Non-voters: Concepts of Parliamentary Representation in Australia’ and ‘A
Matter of Simple Justice? Women and Parliamentary Representation’ in Speaking
for the People: Representation in Australian Politics Melbourne University Press, pp. 36-63 and 162-188.
Also Introduction and Conclusion (with Gianni Zappala), pp. 1-15 and 272-292.
2001.‘Women’s Constitutional Activism
in Australia and Canada’ (with Jill Vickers), Canadian Journal of Women and
the Law 13 (1), pp. 1-36. 2001. ‘Women and Government in Australia’,
Year Book Australia 2001 Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics (CAT
No. 1301.0), pp. 72-89. Personal
Marian Sawer was born in New Zealand and moved to Australia for her secondary
education. She is married to James Jupp and has three grown-up daughters.