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 in the Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU. Prior to that she lectured for 7 years in the Department of Government, University of Sydney and, as a Rhodes Scholar, 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. Lisa is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia.

 

GRANT FUNDING

ARC GRANTS.

 2012-2014. ARC Discovery Grant, Project Title: 'The Science of Welfare: Adam Smith's Political Thought'.

 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'. 

 

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

 

Research Centres

Lisa is an Associate Investigator on the ARC History of Emotions 1100-1800 Centre of Excellence.  The Centre will receive funding over the next 7 years (2011-2017). She is also an Executive Committee and Management Committe member of the Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre. http://www.adelaide.edu/indo-pacific-governance/

Teaching Interests

Political Theory; Intellectual History; Electoral Law; Australian Politics; Women and Politics
Lisa's current Australianist interests are in electoral law and electoral inclusion. Her theory interests are in issues in liberal democratic theory and rights while her intellectual history interests are in the Scottish Enlightenment, classical political economy, the development and prehistory of liberal thought, classical Stoicism and political corruption.

Publications

Books, Collections, Monographs.

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

The Politics of Human Rights in Australia, (monograph co-written 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.

‘Ideas of Corruption in the Eighteenth Century: The Competing Conceptions of Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith’ in Manuhuia Barcham, Barry Hindess and Peter Larmour (eds) Corruption: Expanding the Focus,
Canberra: ANU Press, 2012, 97-112.

‘Informal Voting Under a System of Compulsory Voting’, in Costar, B., Orr, G. and Tham, J. (eds) Electoral Regulation and Prospects for Australian Democracy, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2011. 

 'Adam Smith on War and Peace', in 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, 2009.

 ‘Compulsory Voting and Turnout: The Australian Case’, (with Jonathon Louth) 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.

 
Refereed Articles.

'Conceptions of Political Corruption in Ancient Athens and Rome', History of Political Thought, forthcoming 2013.

 ‘Adam Smith: The Man, the Mind and the Troubled Soul’,  The Review of Politics, 74 (2), 2012. pp 307-316.
 
‘The Electoral and Political Implications of Reserved Seats for Indigenous Australians’, (with G. Evans) Australian Journal of Political Science, 47 (3) 2012, pp. 491-505.Appendices 

 ‘Adam Smith on Thumos and Irrational Economic Man’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 19 (1), 2012, pp. 1-22. 

 ‘The Voting Rights of Incarcerated Australian Citizens’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 42 (6), (with Cornelia Koch), 2011, pp. 213-28.

 ‘Social Distance and the New Strangership in Adam Smith’, Adam Smith Review, Volume 6, 2011. pp. 166-183.

 ‘Raising Turnout Using Compulsory Voting’, Politics, 31 (1), 2011, pp. 27-36.

 ‘Public Acceptance of Compulsory Voting: Explaining the Australian Case’, Representation, 46 (4) 2010, pp. 425-438.

 ‘Compulsory Voting: Reply to Lever', British Journal of Political Science, 40 (4), 2010, pp. 917-923.

 ‘Voting Attitudes and Behaviour Among Remote Aboriginal Peoples’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, (with Kate Alport), 2010, 56 (2), pp. 242-258.

 ‘Adam Smith’s Cosmopolitanism: The Expanding Circles of Commercial Strangership’, History of Political Thought, 2010, 31 (3), pp. 449-473.

 ‘Adam Smith on Thumos and Irrational Economic Man’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 17 (4), 2010. 

 ‘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

 'Common Sense Philosophy', Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Michael T. Gibbons (ed), London: Blackwell-Wiley, 2011.

 'Francis Hutcheson', Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Michael T. Gibbons (ed), London: Blackwell, 2011.

 ‘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.

Other. 

2013. 'If It Ain't Broke', Public Law Research Network, http://blogs.adelaide.edu.au/public-law-rc/2013/01/03/if-it-aint-broke/

2012, ‘Classical Stoicism and the Western Tradition’, Australian Review of Public Affairs, Vol 10 (3), November 2012.

 2012. ‘Electronic Voting and Electoral Inclusion: Implications for South Australia’, Final Report to Electoral Commission of South Australia, Australian Research Council Linkage Partner for Project LP0348600.2011. ‘What Choices Matter’, Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre Policy Brief, Issue 6, August, 2011.2011. ‘Mandatory Voting Works’, New York Times, November 7, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/11/07/should-voting-in-the-us-be-mandatory-14

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

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

ARC GRANTS.

2012-2014. ARC Discovery Grant, Project Title: 'The Science of Welfare: Adam Smith's Political Thought'.

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'. 

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

Research Centres

Lisa is an Associate Investigator on the ARC History of Emotions 1100-1800 Centre of Excellence.  The Centre will receive funding over the next 7 years (2011-2017). She is also an Executive Committee and Management Committe member of the Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre. http://www.adelaide.edu/indo-pacific-governance/

 

Entry last updated: Thursday, 14 Mar 2013