Professor Lisa Hill

Biography/ Background

Before taking up her position as Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide, Lisa was an ARC Senior Fellow (University of Adelaide) and a Fellow of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU. Prior to that she lectured for 7 years in the Department of Government, University of Sydney and took a D.Phil. in Politics at the University of Oxford. Her current areas of interest are: political theory, intellectual history, issues in electoral law and selected issues in Australian Politics.

 

She is pictured here with her partner, silver fox Associate Professor Philip Gerrans, Department of Philosophy, University of Adelaide.

Teaching Interests

Political Theory; Intellectual History; Electoral Law; Australian Politics; Women and Politics

Lisa's current Australianist interests are in electoral law and parliamentary privilege. Her theory interests are in issues in liberal democratic theory and gender while her intellectual history interests are in the Scottish Enlightenment, classical political economy, the development and prehistory of liberal thought, classical Stoicism and corruption.

Research Funding

ARC GRANTS.

2009-10. ARC Discovery Grant: Project Title: ‘Is Compulsory Voting Defensible’?

 

2007-2009 ARC Discovery Grant. Project Title: ‘Corrupting Government: An Intellectual History of Political Corruption’ (with Wilf Prest and Bruce Buchan).

2003-6 ARC Large Industry Linkage Grant. Project title: ‘Electronic Voting and Electoral Inclusion: Implications for South Australia’.

 

2001-6. ARC Five Year Discovery Fellowship. Project: ‘Friendship and Strangership: The New Civil Society of Adam Smith’.

 

Other Grants.

 

2008 University of Adelaide Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Hosting Conference Scheme. (with Ian Hall).

 

2007. Academy of Social Sciences Workshop Grant (with Ian Hall and Wilf Prest).

 

2007. University of Adelaide Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Hosting Conference Scheme. (with Ian Hall).

 

2007. Faculty Strategic Research Grants Scheme grant.

2006. ARC Seeding and Mentoring Scheme Grant.

 

2006 University of Adelaide Faculty Small Research Grant. Project Title: ‘Testing Some Controvertible Claims About Compulsory Voting’.

 

2004 University of Adelaide Faculty Small Research Grant. Project Title: ‘Compulsory Voting: Effectiveness, Appropriateness and Comparative Lessons’.

 

2002 SUniversity of Adelaide Faculty Small Grant. Project Title: ‘Developing a Template for a Best Practice Regime Derived from Australian and Comparative Data’.

 

 

Publications

 

 

Books, Collections, Monographs.

  

British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier , (with Ian Hall) New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, forthcoming 2009.

 

 The Politics of Human Rights in Australia, (with Louise Chappell and John Chesterman) Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

 

The Passionate Society: The Social, Political and Moral Thought of Adam Ferguson, Berlin/New York: Springer, 2006.

 

The Politics of Women’s Interests: New Comparative and International Perspectives,(co-edited with L. Chappell)   London: Routledge, 2006.

 

Gendered Interests, (co-edited with L. Chappell), a special issue of Policy Organisation and Society, 22, (1) July, 2003.

 

Book Chapters.

 

‘Adam Smith on War (and Peace)’ in Ian Hall and Lisa Hill. (eds) British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier , New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009.

 

'Introduction' (with Ian Hall) in British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier , New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, forthcoming 2009.

 

‘Compulsory Voting and Turnout: The Australian Case’, (with Jonathon Louth) forthcoming in Asifa Begum (ed) Election Law, Hyderabad: ICFAI University Books, 2009.

 

‘A Complicated Vision: The Ideal Polity in Adam Ferguson’, in Eugene Heath and Vincenzo Merolle (eds), Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009.

 

‘Reconnecting Australia’s Politically Excluded: Electronic Pathways to Electoral Inclusion’ (with Kate Alport) in A. Anttiroiko (ed), Electronic Government: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, IGI Global, Hershey, New York, 2008.

 

‘Electronic Conduits to Electoral Inclusion in an Atypical Constituency: The Australian Case’ (with Kate Alport). E-Government Diffusion, Policy and Impact: Advanced Issues and Practices in Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Editor-in-Chief, Pennsylvania: IGA Global, forthcoming, 2008.

 

‘Parliamentary Privilege and Homosexual Vilification’, In Gelber, K. and Stone, A. Free Speech and Hate Speech in Australia, Federation Press, 2007.

 

‘Thumos in Adam Smith’, in Geoff Cockfield, Ann Firth and John Laurent (eds) Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, Edward Elgar, 2007.

 

‘Classical Stoicism and a Difference of Opinion?’ in T. Battin (ed) A Passion for Politics: Essays in Honour of Graham Maddox, Longman Pearson, 2005.

 

‘Women’s Interests and Political Orientations: The Gender Voting Gap in Three Industrialised Settings’ in Chappell, L. and Hill, L.  (eds) The Politics of Women’s Interests: New Comparative and International Perspectives, Routledge, England, 2006.

 

’Introduction’, (with Louise Chappell) The Politics of Women’s Interests: New Comparative and International Perspectives (co-edited with L. Chappell) Routledge, London, 2006.

 

'The Hidden Theology of Adam Smith' in Economics and Religion, Paul Oslington (ed), Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2004.

 

‘Democratic Deficit: Is CIR the Solution to a Problem Compulsory Voting Has Already Solved?’, in Williams, J and Macintyre, C. (eds) Peace Order and Good Government: Constitutional and Parliamentary Reform,Wakefield Press, 2003, pp. 133-149.

 

‘Hume, Smith and Ferguson: Friendship in Commercial Society’ (with Peter McCarthy), in Preston King and Heather Devere, The Challenge to Friendship in Modernity, London: Frank Cass, 2000.

 

‘A Great Leveller: Compulsory Voting as a Democratic Innovation’, in Elections Full Free and Fair, Marian Sawer (ed) Federation Press, Sydney: 2001.

 

Fully refereed articles.

 

‘Thumotic ‘Man’ versus Homoeconomicus in Adam Smith’s Thought’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 18:4,2011. 

 ‘Uncounted Votes: Informal Voting in the House of Representatives as a Marker of Political Exclusion in Australia’, (with Sally Young) Australian Journal of History and Politics, 55 (1), 64-79.

 

‘The Ballot Behind Bars after Roach: Why Disenfranchise Prisoners?’ (with Cornelia Koch), Alternative Law Review, 33 (4), 220-224, 2008.

 

 ‘[Re]connecting Australia’s Politically Excluded: Electronic Pathways to Electoral Inclusion’ (with Kate Alport) 2007. International Journal of Electronic Government Research, 3 (4), 1-19.

 

‘Protest or Error? Informal Voting and Compulsory Voting’ (with Sally Young), Australian Journal of Political Science, 42 (3), pp. 515-521, 2007.

 

‘Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson and Karl Marx on the Division of Labour’, Journal of Classical Sociology, 7(3) 2007, pp. 339-366.

 

‘Adam Smith and the Theme of Corruption’, Review of Politics, 68 (4) Fall, 2006, pp. 636-662.

 

‘Low Voter Turnout in the United States: Is Compulsory Voting a Viable Solution?’ Journal of Theoretical Politics’, 18 (2) 2006, pp. 207-232.

 

‘Compulsory Voting in Australia: Turnout With and Without It,’ (with Jonathon Louth), Australian Review of Public Affairs, (Journal) 6, Number (1), 2005, pp. 25-37.

 

‘Further Reflections on the Hidden Theology of Adam Smith’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 11(4), 2004, pp. 629-35.

 

‘On Friendship and Necessitudo in Adam Smith’, (with Peter McCarthy), History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 17 (4), 2004, pp. 1-16.

 

‘Compulsory Voting in Australia: A Basis for a ‘Best Practice’ Regime’, Federal Law Review, Vol. 32 (3) 2004, pp. 479-97.

 

‘Democratic Deficit in the ACT: Is the Citizen Initiated Referendum a Solution?’, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 2003, 38 (4) pp. 13-19.

 

‘The Gender Gap: Australia, Britain and the United States’, Policy, Organisation and Society, 22, (1) 2003, pp. 73-100.

 

‘Compulsory Voting: Residual Problems and Potential Solutions’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 37 (3), 2002, pp. 437-55.

 

‘On the Reasonableness of Compelling Citizens to Vote: The Australian Case’, Political Studies, 50 (1) 2002, pp. 80-101.

 

‘The Puzzle of Adam Ferguson’s Conservatism’, Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 2001 (2), pp. 10-15.

 

‘Australian Democracy and Privileged Parliamentary Speech’, Politics, 21 (2) 2001, pp. 23-34.

 

‘The First Wave of Feminism: Were the Stoics Feminists?’, History of Political Thought, XXII. (1) 2001, pp. 12-40.

 

‘Eighteenth Century Anticipations of a Sociology of Conflict’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 62 (2) 2001, pp. 281-299.

 

‘The Hidden Theology of Adam Smith’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 8 (1), Spring 2001, pp. 1-29.

 

‘Compulsory Voting, Political Shyness and Welfare Outcomes’, Journal of Sociology, 36 (1), 2000, pp. 30-49.

 

‘The Two Republicae of the Roman Stoics’, Citizenship Studies, 4 (1) 2000, pp. 65-79.

 

‘Homo Economicus, Different Voices and the Liberal Psyche’, International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 13, (1), Spring, 1999, pp. 21-46.

 

‘Hume, Smith and Ferguson on Friendship in Commercial Society’, (with Peter McCarthy) Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy’, 2 (4) 1999, pp. 33-49.

 

‘Precarious Persons: Disenfranchising Australian Prisoners’, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 35 (3), 1999, pp. 203-213.

 

‘The Republic of Reason and Candour’, Journal of Australian Studies, Vol. 62, 1999, pp 10-19.

 

‘The Invisible Hand of Adam Ferguson’, The European Legacy, 3, (6), 1998, pp. 42-65.

 

‘The Hazardous Era of ‘Common Sense’’, Policy, 14, (3) 1998, pp. 38-41.

 

‘When Pauline Speaks’, Melbourne Journal of Politics: The Reconciliation Issue, Vol. 25, 1998, pp. 85-100.

 

‘Pauline Hanson, Free Speech and Reconciliation’, Journal of Australian Studies, 57, 3, (6) 1998, pp. 10-22.

 

‘Adam Ferguson and the Paradox of Progress and Decline’, History of Political Thought, 18, (4), Winter, 1997, pp. 677-706.

 

‘Anticipations of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Social Thought in the Work of Adam Ferguson’, European Journal of Sociology, 37 (1), 1996, pp. 203-228.

 

‘Ferguson and Smith on 'Human Nature', 'Interest' and the Role of Beneficence in Market Society’, Journal of the History of Economic Ideas, 4 (1-2) 1996, pp. 353-399.

 

‘'The Unreconstructed Republic', Australian Journal of Political Science, 30, 1995, pp. 589-594.

 

‘Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Australian Republican Debate’, Current Affairs Bulletin, October, 1994, pp.16-24.

 

Encyclopedia Articles. 

‘Civil Society Theory: Adam Smith’, International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, edited by Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler, Springer Publications: New York, 2009.

 

 ‘Civil Society Theory: Adam Ferguson’, International Encyclopedia of Civil Society edited by Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler, Springer Publications: New York, 2009

 

‘Adam Ferguson’, Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Mark Bevir (ed), London: Sage, 2009.

 

 ‘Compulsory Voting’, The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, B. Galligan and W. Roberts, (eds) , Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2007.

 

 ‘Citizen Initiated Referenda’, The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, B. Galligan and W. Roberts, (eds), Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2007.

 

Papers in Fully Refereed Conference Proceedings.

 

‘On the Alleged Existence of a Right Not to Vote’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2009.

 

‘Adam Smith’s Strangership’, Proceedings of the American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Toronto, 2009.

 

 

 

‘Adam Smith’s Pragmatic Liberalism’, Proceedings of the International Political Science Association World Congress, Santiago, 2009

 

 

‘Voting Attitudes and Behaviour Among Aboriginal Peoples: Reports from 29 Anangu Women’ (with Kate Alport). Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2008, University of Queensland.

 

 ‘Adam Smith’s International Thought’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2008, University of Queensland.

 

'Political Exclusion and Electronic Conduits to Civic (Re-)Engagement in Australia’ (with Kate Alport), Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2006, University of Newcastle.

 

‘Mobilising the Youth Vote and the Future of British Democracy’ (with Jonathon Louth) Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2006, University of Newcastle.

 

‘Cause and Effect? Informal and Compulsory Voting in Australia’ (with Sally Young) Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2006, University of Newcastle.

 

‘Compulsory Voting Laws and Turnout: Efficacy and Appropriateness’, (With Jonathan Louth) Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004, University of Adelaide.

 

‘Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson and the Division of Labour’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004, University of Adelaide.

 

‘Two Eighteenth Century Visions of the New Civil Society: Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson on the Effects of Modernity’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2003, University of Tasmania.

 

‘Democratic Assistance: A Compulsory Voting Template’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2002, Australian National University, Canberra.

 

‘Adam Ferguson: Radical or Conservative?’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2001, Parliament House, Brisbane.

 

‘On the Reasonableness of Compelling Citizens to Vote’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2000, ANU, 2000.

 

‘Adam Ferguson’s Early Political Science’, Proceedings of the American Political Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC 2000.

 

‘Gender Audit of the Australian Journal of Political Science 1979-1998: A Preliminary Report’ Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 1999, University of Sydney, 1999 (co-authored with Drs Louise Chappell and Jennifer Curtin).

 

‘Friendship in the Commercial Word of Adam Smith’ (Co-authored with Peter McCarthy), Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 1999, University of Sydney, 1999.

 

Unrefereed Papers.

 

 

L. Hill. 2009. ‘Prisoners’ Voting Rights’, Australian Review of Public Affairs, November 2009 at http://www.australianreview.net/

 

L. Hill. 2003. ‘Compulsory Voting’, Paper for Democratic Audit Website, Political Science Program, RSSS, http://democratic.audit.anu.edu.au/.

 

 

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 5 Jan 2010