Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120101090
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
The politics of megadeals in the extractive industries. This project aims to determine why some attempted large mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas industry and mining industries succeed and others fail. It will identify and analyse key factors which have shaped the outcome of major attempted deals in the extractive industries over the past decade.
The political-economy of Australia-China relations. This project will analyse the bilateral economic relationship between Australia and China. The principal focus will be on how economic relations have been conditioned by distinctive patterns of economic and political organisation in each country. The approach will draw on and extend the Varieties of Capitalism literature to provide a detailed analysis of the institutional features of the Chinese and Australian economies, and how these instituti ....The political-economy of Australia-China relations. This project will analyse the bilateral economic relationship between Australia and China. The principal focus will be on how economic relations have been conditioned by distinctive patterns of economic and political organisation in each country. The approach will draw on and extend the Varieties of Capitalism literature to provide a detailed analysis of the institutional features of the Chinese and Australian economies, and how these institutions condition the economic relationship between the two. By analysing the different policymaking traditions and business structures the project aims to explain the challenges facing Australia-China economic ties, particularly over the minerals industry, foreign investment and free trade agreement negotiations.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120100213
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
The rise of the United States Federal Reserve. Over the past decades, the United States central bank (the 'Federal Reserve') has emerged as one of the most important institutions in not only the American but also the global political economy. This project investigates the mechanisms of its operation and advances a new explanation for its rise to power.
Introducing China: The World's Oldest and Newest Major Power. China's weight in regional affairs is growing rapidly on all fronts, and will continue to do so into the indefinite future. China will be the largest single source of dynamism and turbulence in our region. Australia's political and business leaders will be confronted with decisions and choices with significant ramifications for our well-being into the longer term future. A deeper understanding of China's aspirations, and of the impa ....Introducing China: The World's Oldest and Newest Major Power. China's weight in regional affairs is growing rapidly on all fronts, and will continue to do so into the indefinite future. China will be the largest single source of dynamism and turbulence in our region. Australia's political and business leaders will be confronted with decisions and choices with significant ramifications for our well-being into the longer term future. A deeper understanding of China's aspirations, and of the impact that China is having on the outlook of others in the region, will improve the odds for sensible decisions and choices. It may also be the key to avoiding choices that we do not wish to make.Read moreRead less
New social foundations of money. In global finance, what is used as 'money' is changing. The capacity for close state control is diminishing and with it the state's capacity to guarantee the value of money. This project looks at the evolving money system identifying new material foundations in the household sector and how households are coming under the rubric of global finance.
Risk and Heterogeneity: AIDS and SARS Policymaking in China. This research will provide significant new knowledge on AIDS and SARS policymaking and implementation in China, which will help Australian policymakers and international agencies engage China on the very important issue of controlling the global spread of communicable diseases. Successfully engaging China is critical for the enhancement of global health security, because of China's enormous and increasingly internationally mobile popul ....Risk and Heterogeneity: AIDS and SARS Policymaking in China. This research will provide significant new knowledge on AIDS and SARS policymaking and implementation in China, which will help Australian policymakers and international agencies engage China on the very important issue of controlling the global spread of communicable diseases. Successfully engaging China is critical for the enhancement of global health security, because of China's enormous and increasingly internationally mobile population.Read moreRead less
Global Challenges, Reluctant Publics? The Role of Public Opinion in International Cooperation on Crucial Global Issues. When challenges emerge that demand international cooperation, what is the facilitating or constraining role of public opinion in states’ ability for joint action? Which factors, under what conditions, influence citizens’ attitudes? Can governments or issue activists meaningfully change public opinion about crucial issues? Human society faces a number of major challenges to its ....Global Challenges, Reluctant Publics? The Role of Public Opinion in International Cooperation on Crucial Global Issues. When challenges emerge that demand international cooperation, what is the facilitating or constraining role of public opinion in states’ ability for joint action? Which factors, under what conditions, influence citizens’ attitudes? Can governments or issue activists meaningfully change public opinion about crucial issues? Human society faces a number of major challenges to its environmental, economic, and political wellbeing that are not contained by international borders and may require international cooperation for effective action. Developing and testing new theory, this project aims to address these under-explored issues of the role of opinion in multinational cooperation, and the degree to which opinion is an independent agenda setter.Read moreRead less
What's Changed? The Political Economy of Financial reform Since 2008. The project intends to chart, assess and explain the politics and policy associated with banking and financial sector reform in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Canada and Australia. The key aims are to extend previous work to develop a firm-level model of financial risk and instability; use that model as a baseline to assess the post-crisis reform policy process; and explain ....What's Changed? The Political Economy of Financial reform Since 2008. The project intends to chart, assess and explain the politics and policy associated with banking and financial sector reform in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Canada and Australia. The key aims are to extend previous work to develop a firm-level model of financial risk and instability; use that model as a baseline to assess the post-crisis reform policy process; and explain inter-country variation in, and the limits of, post-crisis policy reform. One particular focus is the relationship between competition and financial stability before and since the 2008 crisis. To what extent did competitive pressures drive risk-taking in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe? Have such pressures receded since 2008? Project outcomes may have policy implications for current efforts in banking reform.Read moreRead less
The Global Governance of Tax and Financial Services: Who Regulates, Who Wins, Who Loses. This project analyses the role of power in the global economy, specifically, whether powerful states can establish global rules concerning tax and financial services by coercion. Large states working through international organisations have floated global tax and financial standards that would regulate international competition for mobile investment but also impose disproportionate costs on small states. If ....The Global Governance of Tax and Financial Services: Who Regulates, Who Wins, Who Loses. This project analyses the role of power in the global economy, specifically, whether powerful states can establish global rules concerning tax and financial services by coercion. Large states working through international organisations have floated global tax and financial standards that would regulate international competition for mobile investment but also impose disproportionate costs on small states. If coercion is cheap and easy to use in solving economic disputes large states will be able to impose these standards on small states. If not, large states will instead have to compromise or offer compensation to establish effective regulations.Read moreRead less
Systemic Corruption and Regime Change: State, Business and Political Elites in Indonesia and Implications for Governance Reform. The development of a stable, prosperous and democratic Indonesia is fundamental to Australia's long-term security. Systemic corruption has been identified as a fundamental impediment to such development and the Australian Government through AUSAID funds institutional reform programs. Yet formal law remains ineffective and corruption has continued to flourish, pointing ....Systemic Corruption and Regime Change: State, Business and Political Elites in Indonesia and Implications for Governance Reform. The development of a stable, prosperous and democratic Indonesia is fundamental to Australia's long-term security. Systemic corruption has been identified as a fundamental impediment to such development and the Australian Government through AUSAID funds institutional reform programs. Yet formal law remains ineffective and corruption has continued to flourish, pointing to weaknesses of policy design. This project will explain how competing political elites systematically use the leverage of the state to redistribute resources within business and society and seek to identify the formal and informal rules that underpin such behaviour. Outcomes will be better models and more effective governance reforms.Read moreRead less