Nostalgic Social Science. "The Cambridge Handbook of Social Sciences in Australia" by Ian McAllister, Steve Dowrick and Riaz Hassan (eds) [review]

Abstract

Australia needs good social scientists capable of researching and teaching at world-class levels about how a small country with an unsophisticated economy, a ramshackle federal system and a remarkably pluralistic society can come to grips with its geo-political location in a rapidly globalising world. Seen from this perspective, the "Handbook" doesn’t offer us much help or hope at all.