Emeritus Professor Marian Sawer
MA, PhD, AO, FASSA
Emeritus Professor; ANU Public Policy Fellow
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Research interests
Democratic theory and practice, electoral administration, gender politics and policy, social liberalism, intersection of social movements and the state.
Biography
Former Head of the Political Science Program, RSSS, ANU and Head, Democratic Audit of Australia. Was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1994 'for services to women and to political science' and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1996. Leader Parliamentary Reform stream, 20/20 Summit 2008. Awarded the Australian Political Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
Member of the International Political Science Association Executive and Co-Editor, International Political Science Review 2012–2020.
Program Co-Chair, World Congress of Political Science, Poznan 2016. Member, Local Organising Committee, World Congress of Political Science, Brisbane 2018. Judge, IPSA Wilma Rule Award 2006–
Chair, Social Sciences Editorial Board, ANU Press 2010–15, member 2016–
Member, Editorial Boards of Australian Journal of Politics and History, Australian Journal of Political Science, Australasian Parliamentary Review, Democratic Theory, European Political Science Review, International Political Science Review.
Member, Gender Statistics Advisory Group, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2010–
Research Affiliate, Global Institute for Women's Leadership (ANU)
For impact see: Google scholar
Researcher's projects
Gendered Excellence in the Social Sciences DP 150104449 (with Fiona Jenkins, Helen Keane, ANU, Claire Donovan, BrunelUniversity) http://genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/gess-home
Gender Mainstreaming: The Role of Specialised Parliamentary Bodies http://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/research/projects/gender-research/gender-focused-parliamentary-institutions-research-network
Electoral Regulation (with Electoral Regulation Research Network and Democratic Audit of Australia)
Edward Elgar Handbook of Feminist Governance (with Lee Ann Banaszak, Penn State University, Jacqui True, Monash University and Johanna Kantola, Tampere University), February 2023
A Parliamentary Code of Conduct (with Blair Williams and the Global Institute of Women's Leadership) https://giwl.anu.edu.au/events/parliament-gendered-workplace-towards-new-code-conduct
Australian federal election series (with Anika Gauja and Jill Sheppard), auspiced by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia 2021–30. Current volume, Watershed: The Australian Federal Election 2022, forthcoming ANU Press 2023.
Current student projects
PhD
Renee O'Shanassy, 'Remote Feminist Futures – Do digital technologies deliver for inclusive advocacy in multilateral contexts?' (2023–
Blair Williams, 'Treading the tight-rope: A comparative study of first women Prime Ministers, gender performativity and the media' (awarded 2020, Gender Institute prize for best PhD, 2019; Thelma Hunter Gender and Politics PhD Prize, 2022)
Monica Costa, ‘Gender responsive budgeting in Timor-Leste and women's economic empowerment’ (co-supervised with Professor Rhonda Sharp, UNISA, awarded 2015, published Routledge 2018)
Kirsty McLaren, 'Social movements and the state in sub-Saharan Africa: Social movement identities in Liberia and Uganda' '
Veronica Oxman, ‘Policies towards gender violence. National approaches in Australia, Argentina and Chile (2002–2012)’
Tulika Saxena, ‘Assessing the impact of the Indian Protection of Women against Domestic Violence Act 2005’ (awarded 2016)
MPhil
Nugraheni Pancaningtyas, ‘The impact of new electoral legislation on women’s parliamentary representation in Bantul District and Yogyakarta City, Indonesia’ (co-supervised with Professor Kathy Robinson, CAP, awarded 2016)
Past student projects
Merrindahl Andrew, 'Women's movement activism on work and income' (awarded 2009).
Peter Brent, 'Enrolling the People: The Development of Modern Electoral Institutions' (awarded 2009).
Norm Kelly, 'Voters, Candidates, Parties: Issues of Equity and Access in Australian Electoral Democracy' (awarded 2009, published as Directions in Australian Electoral Reform, ANU Press, 2012).
Wahidah Siregah, 'Gaining representation in parliament: A study of the Indonesian national, provincial and local parliaments in 2004' (awarded 2008).
Verity Archer, 'In search of the Australian dole bludger: Constructing discourses of welfare, 1974-83' (awarded 2006, APSA prize for best politics PhD thesis, 2007).
Sandra Grey, ‘Changing frames: The discursive influence of the women’s movement in Australia and New Zealand’(awarded 2004, Graduate School Dean’s Prize, 2004).
Publications
- Sawer, M 2021, 'The concept of the level playing field: Assessing fairness in electoral competition', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 29-45.
- Freidenvall, L & Sawer, M 2021, 'Gender budgeting: Australian innovation and Swedish delivery', in Andrew Scott and Rod Campbell (ed.), Nordic Edge: Policy Possibilities for Australia, Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Melbourne.
- Palmieri, S, Williams, B & Sawer, M 2021, 'Parliament as a gendered workplace', Australasian Parliamentary Review, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 8-19.
- Sawer, M 2021, 'Dealing with toxic parliaments: Lessons from elsewhere', Australasian Parliamentary Review, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 7-22.
- Sawer, M, Jenkins, F & Downing, K, eds, 2020, How Gender Can Transform the Social Sciences: Innovation and Impact, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
- Sawer, M & Stewart, M 2020, 'Gender Budgeting', in M Sawer, F Jenkins & K Downing (ed.), How Gender Can Transform the Social Sciences: Innovation and Impact, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 117-126.
- Sawer, M & Tremblay, M 2020, 'Political Representation: The Gendered Effects of Voting Systems', in M Sawer, F Jenkins & K Downing (ed.), How Gender Can Transform the Social Sciences: Innovation and Impact, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 39-46.
- Gauja, A, Sawer, M & Simms, M, eds, 2020, Morrison's Miracle: The 2019 Australian Federal Election, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Gauja, A, Sawer, M & Simms, M 2020, 'Morrison's Miracle: Analysing the 2019 Australian Federal Election', in Anika Gauja, Marian Sawer & Marian Simms (ed.), Morrison's Miracle: The 2019 Australian Federal Election, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 1-20.
- Sawer, M & Maley, M 2020, 'The rules of the game', in Anika Gauja, Marian Sawer & Marian Simms (ed.), Morrison's Miracle: The 2019 Australian Federal Election, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 47-69.
- Sawer, M 2020, 'Varieties of Opposition to Gender Equality in Europe', Political Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 1-2.
- Sawer, M 2020, 'Feminist Political Science', in D Berg-Schlosser, B Badie & L Morlino (ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Political Science, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, United Kingdom, pp. 96-113.
- Jenkins, F, Sawer, M & Downing, K 2020, 'Introduction: The Gender Lens and Innovation in the Social Sciences', in M Sawer, F Jenkins & K Downing (ed.), How Gender Can Transform the Social Sciences: Innovation and Impact, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 3-15.
- Sawer, M 2020, 'Gender mainstreaming and the substantive representation of women: where do parliamentary bodies fit? ', Politics, Groups, and Identities, vol. online.
- Sawer, M 2019, 'You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 486-488.
- McCann, J & Sawer, M 2018, 'Australia: The Slow Road to Parliament', in Susan Franceschet, Mona Lena Krook and Netina Tan (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Women's Political Rights, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 483-502pp.
- Sawer, M & Baker, K, eds, 2018, Gender innovation in political science: New norms, new knowledge, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
- Sawer, M & Reidy, T 2019, 'Introduction to Pippa Norris, 'Do public perceptions of electoral malpractice undermine democratic satisfaction? The US in comparative perspective'', International Political Science Review, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 3-4.
- Sawer, M 2018, 'How the Absence of Women Became a Democratic Deficit: The Role of Feminist Political Science', in Marian Sawer and Kerryn Baker (ed.), Gender Innovation in Political Science: New Norms, New Knowledge, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 13-39.
- Abu-Laban, Y, Sawer, M & St-Laurent, M 2018, IPSA Gender and Diversity Monitoring Report 2017.
- Costa, M & Sawer, M 2018, 'The Thorny Path to a More Inclusive Discipline', in Marian Sawer and Kerryn Baker (ed.), Gender Innovation in Political Science: New Norms, New Knowledge, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 243-275pp.
- Williams, B & Sawer, M 2018, 'Rainbow Labor and a Purple Policy Launch: Gender and Sexuality Issues', in Anika Gauja, Peter Chen, Jennifer Curtin and Juliet Pietsch (ed.), Double Disillusion: The 2016 Australian Federal Election, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 641-660pp.
- Sawer, M 2017, 'Gendering Politics, Feminising Political Science' (review article), Politics and Gender, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 174-177pp.
- Gauja, A & Sawer, M 2016, 'Party rules: The regulatory gap', in Anika Gauja and Marian Sawer (ed.), PARTY RULES? Dilemmas of political party regulation in Australia, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 197-214.
- Sawer, M & Gauja, A 2016, 'Party rules: promises and pitfalls', in Anika Gauja and Marian Sawer (ed.), PARTY RULES? Dilemmas of political party regulation in Australia, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 1-35.
- Gauja, A & Sawer, M, eds, 2016, PARTY RULES? Dilemmas of political party regulation in Australia, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Grace, J & Sawer, M 2016, 'Representing Gender Equality: Specialised Parliamentary Bodies', Parliamentary Affairs, 69 (4), pp. 745–747.
- Harris-Rimmer, S & Sawer, M 2016, 'Neoliberalism and gender equality policy in Australia', Australian Journal of Political Science 51(4), pp. 742–758.
- Sawer, M & Curtin, J 2016, 'organising for a more diverse political science: australia and new zealand', European Political Science, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 441-456.
- Sawer, M & Turner, A 2016, 'Specialised Parliamentary Bodies: Their Role and Relevance to Women's Movement Repertoire', Parliamentary Affairs, 69 (4) pp. 763–777.
- Sawer, M 2016, 'Femocrat', entry in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, edited by Nancy A. Naples, vol. II, 909-911. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss047
- Sawer, M 2015, 'Beyond Numbers: The Role of Specialised Parliamentary Bodies in Promoting Gender Equality', Australasian Parliamentary Review, 30 (1): 105-122.
- Sawer, M & Andrew, M 2014, 'Collectivism, consensus and concepts of shared leadership in movements for social change', in Joy Damousi, Kim Rubenstein and Mary Tomsic (ed.), Diversity in Leadership : Australian women, past and present, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 283-300.
- Sawer, M & Gray, G 2014, 'The Women's Movement and Government: Feminist Fading?', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 29, no. 82, pp. 403-418.
- Sawer, M 2014, 'Australian Political Parties', in (Shurlee Swain and Judith Smart eds), The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Australian Women's Archives Project 2014, Australia.
- Sawer, M 2014, 'Feminist Political Science and Feminist Politics', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 29, no. 80, pp. 137-147.
- Sawer, M 2014, 'Gender Equality Architecture: The Intergovernmental Level in Federal Systems', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 361-372.
- Sawer, M 2014, 'The Evolution of Feminist Approaches to Leadership', in (Shurlee Swain and Judith Smart eds), The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Australian Women's Archives Project 2014, Australia.
- Sawer, M & Brent, P 2011, Equality and Australian Democracy. Democratic Audit Discussion Paper. https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/140526
- Sawer, M 2013, 'Creating space for democracy', Australian Review of Public Affairs, October: http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2013/10/sawer.html
- Sawer, M & Andrew, M 2013, 'Hiding in plain sight: Australian women's advocacy organisations', in Sarah Maddison and Marian Sawer (ed.), The Women's Movement In Protest, Institutions And the Internet: Australia in transnational perspective, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 70-86.
- Sawer, M 2013, 'Finding the women's movement', in Sarah Maddison and Marian Sawer (ed.), The Women's Movement In Protest, Institutions And the Internet: Australia in transnational perspective, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 1-19.
- Sawer, M & Maddison, S, eds, 2013, The Women's Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York.
- Sawer, M 2013, 'Misogyny and misrepresentation: Women in Australian parliaments', Political Science, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 105-117.
- Sawer, M 2013, 'New South Wales: Entering too late? Women in parliamentary politics', in Drude Dahlerup and Monique Leyenaar (ed.), Breaking Male Dominance in Old Democracies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 49-71.
- Sawer, M & Freidenvall, L 2013, 'Framing Women Politicians in Old Democracies', in Drude Dahlerup and Monique Leyenaar (ed.), Breaking Male Dominance in Old Democracies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 260-274.
- Costa, M, Sawer, M, Sharp, R 2012 'Women acting for women: Gender-responsive budgeting in Timor-Leste', International Feminist Journal of Politics, DOI:10.1080/14616742.2012.714119
- Sawer, M 2012, 'What makes the substantive representation of women possible in a Westminster parliament? The story of RU486 in Australia', International Political Science Review, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 320-335.
- Sawer, M 2012, 'GENDER AND INSTITUTIONS Room with a View?', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 27, no. 73, pp. 325-330.
- Sawer, M 2012, 'Andrew Fisher and the Era of Liberal Reform', Labour History: a Journal of Labour and social history, vol. 102, no. 102, pp. 71 - 86.
- Sawer, M 2012, 'Managing Gender: The 2010 federal election', in Marian Simms and John Wanna (ed.), Julia 2010: The caretaker election, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 251-266. http://epress.anu.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ch21.pdf
- Sawer, M 2012, 'Moving backwards? Women in Australian Parliaments', Australian Policy Online, 7 May. http://apo.org.au/commentary/moving-backwards-women-australian-parliaments
- Sawer, M, McLaren, K & Kelly, N 2011, 'Comparative politics of Australia and New Zealand', in Luanna H Meyer (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. Online.
- Sawer, M & Kelly, N 2011, 'Electoral Administration', in George Thomas Kurian (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Political Science, CQ Press (a division of SAGE), Washington DC USA, pp. 479-480pp.
- Sawer, M 2011, 'Oil and Water: Political Finance and the Machinery of Democracy', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 559-564.
- Sawer, M & Curtin, J 2011, 'Oceania', in Gretchen Bauer and Manon Tremblay (ed.), Women in Executive Power: A global overview, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York USA, pp. 45-64.
- Sawer, M 2011, 'Review: The Museum of Australian Democracy', reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. online. http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_6_no_1/exhibition_reviews/museum_of_australian_democracy
- Sawer, M 2010, 'Premature Obituaries: How Can We Tell If the Women's Movement Is Over?', Politics and Gender, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 602-609.
- Sawer, M & Vickers, J 2010, 'Introduction: Political Architecture and its Gender Impact', in Melissa Haussman, Marian Sawer, Jill Vickers (ed.), Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance: Gender in a Global/Local World, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Franham, UK and Burlington, VT, USA, pp. 3-18.
- Sawer, M 2010, 'Women and Elections', in Lawrence LeDuc, Richard G. Niemi and Pippa Norris (ed.), Comparing Democracies 3: Elections and Voting in the 21st Century (3rd ed), Sage Publications Inc, London, pp. 202-285.
- Haussman, M, Sawer, M & Vickers, J, eds, 2010, Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance: Gender in a Global/Local World, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Franham, UK and Burlington, VT, USA.
- Gray, G & Sawer, M 2009, 'Australian Women: Repertoires of Change', in Joyce Gelb; Marian Lief Palley (ed.), Women and Politics Around the World, ABC-Clio Inc, United State of America, pp. 247-265.
- Sawer, M, Abjorensen, N & Larkin, P 2009, Australia: the state of democracy, The Federation Press, NSW.
- Sawer, M & Laycock, D 2009, 'Down with Elites and Up with Inequality: Market Populism in Australia and Canada', Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (&print 1466-2043), vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 133-150. Republished in the Golden Anniversary issue of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 2012: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/access/fccp-golden-anniversary.pdf
- Sawer, M 2009, 'Women and the 2007 federal election', Australian Cultural History, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 167-174.
- Sawer, M & Grey, S 2008, 'Introduction [to Women's Movements: Flourishing or in abeyance?]', in Sandra Grey and Marian Sawer (ed.), Women's Movements: Flourishing or in abeyance?, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, USA and Canada, pp. 1-13.
- Pini, B, Panelli, R & Sawer, M 2008, 'Managing the Woman Issue: the Australian state and the case of women in agri-politics', International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 173-197.
- Sawer, M 2008, 'Cartoons for the Cause: Cartooning for Equality in Australia', in Robert Phiddian, Haydon Manning (ed.), Comic Commentators, Network Books, Perth, pp. 101-124.
- Sawer, M 2008, 'Presence and the Price: Women and the 2007 Australian Federal Election', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 23, no. 56, pp. 263 -269.
- Sawer, M 2008, Making Women Count: A History of the Women's Electoral Lobby in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney.
- Sawer, M 2008, 'Framing Feminists: Market Populism and Its Impact on Public Policy in Australia and Canada', in Yasmeen Abu-Laban (ed.), Gendering the Nation-State: Canadian and Comparative perspectives, UBC Press, Vancouver Canada, pp. 120-138.
- Kelly, N & Sawer, M 2008, 'The State of Democracy: Auditing for Democratic Values in Australia', Revista catalana de dret public (Catalan Journal of Public Law), vol. 37, pp. 285-314.
- Grey, S & Sawer, M, eds, 2008, Women's Movements - Flourishing or in abeyance?, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, USA and Canada. Paperback edn published 2010.
- Sawer, M 2007, 'Australia: the Fall of the Femocrat', in Joyce Outshoorn & Johanna Kantola (ed.), Changing State Feminism, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, UK & USA, pp. 20 - 40.
- Sawer, M 2007, 'Property Voting in Local Government: A Relic of a Pre-Democratic Era', Representation, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 45-52.
- Sawer, M 2007, 'Wearing Your Politics on Your Sleeve: The Role of Political Colours in Social Movements', Social Movement Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 39-56.
- Sawer, M 2007, 'EMILY's List', in Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 182pp.
- Sawer, M 2007, 'Gender'; 'Liberalism', in Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 224-227, 320-323.
- Sawer, M 2006, 'From women's interests to special interests: reframing equality claims', in Louise Chappell and Lisa Hill (ed.), The Politics of women's interests: new comparative perspectives, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 111-129.
- Sawer, M, Brankovich, J & Radford, G 2006, 'Generations of Advocacy', in Louise Chappell & Deborah Brennan (ed.), "no fit place for women": Women in New South Wales Politics, 1856-2006, UNSW Press, Australia, pp. 200-224.
- Sawer, M, Tremblay, M & Trimble, L, eds, 2006, Representing Women in Parliament: A comparative study, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Oxford.
- Sawer, M 2006, 'When women support women... EMILY's List and the substantive representation of women in Australia', in Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble (ed.), Representing Women in Parliament: A comparative study, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Oxford, pp. 103-119.
- Sawer, M, Tremblay, M & Trimble, L 2006, 'Introduction: patterns and practice in the parliamentary representation of women', in Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble (ed.), Representing Women in Parliament: A comparative study, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Oxford.
- Grey, S & Sawer, M 2005, 'Australia and New Zealand', in Yvonne Galligan and Manon Tremblay (ed.), Sharing Power: Women, Parliament, Democracy, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, pp. 171-180.
- Sawer, M 2005, 'Mums and Dads of Australia', in Marian Simms and John Warhurst (ed.), Mortgage Nation: The 2004 Australian Election, API Network, Perth, pp. 243-250.
- Sawer, M & Hindess, B, eds, 2004, Us and Them: Anti Elitism in Australia, Curtin University of Technology, Perth WA.
- Sawer, M 2004, 'Australia: Replacing Plurality Rule with Majority-Preferential Voting', in Josep.M.Colomer (ed.), Handbook of Electoral System Choice, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 475-486.
- Sawer, M 2004, 'The Impact of Feminist Scholarship on Australian Political Science', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 553-566.
- Sawer, M 2004, 'Inventing the Nation Through the Ballot Box', in Pierre Boyer, Linda Cardinal, and David Headon (ed.), From Subjects to Citizens: A Hundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada, University of Ottawa Press, Canada, pp. 45-60.
- Sawer, M 2003, 'Constructing Democracy', International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 361-365.
- Sawer, M 2003, The Ethical State? Social Liberalism in Australia, Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Melbourne.
- Sawer, M 2003, 'The life and times of womens policy machinery in Australia', in Shirin M. Rai (ed.), Mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state?, Manchester University Press, UK, pp. 243-263.
- Sawer, M 2003, 'Reinventing the Labor Party: From Laborism to Equal Opportunity', in Jenny Hocking and Colleen Lewis (ed.), It's Time Again: Whitlam and Modern Labor, circa (an imprint of Melbourne Publishing Group), Melbourne, pp. 373-392.
- Sawer, M 2003, 'Enrolling the People: Electoral Innovation in the New Australian Commonwealth', in Graeme Orr, Bryan Mercurio, George Williams (ed.), Realising Democracy: Electoral law in Australia, The Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 52-65.
- Sawer, M 2002, 'Australia: The mandarin approach to gender budgets', in Debbie Budlender and Guy Hewitt (ed.), Gender Budgets Make More Cents, Commonwealth Secretariat, United Kingdom, pp. 43-64.
- Sawer, M 2002, 'Governing for the Mainstream: Implications for Community Representation', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 39-49.
- Sawer, M 2002, 'Cartoons for the Cause: Cartooning for Equality in Australia', Ejournalist, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 4-5.
- Sawer, M 2002, 'In safe hands? Women in the 2001 election', in John Warhurst and Marian Simms (ed.), 2001:The Centenary Election, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia Queensland, pp. 253-259.
- Sawer, M 2002, 'The Representation of Women in Australia: Meaning and Make-Believe', Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 5-18.
- Sawer, M 2001, 'Women and Government in Australia', in Dennis Trewin (ed.), 2001 Year Book Australia, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 72-89pp.
- Sawer, M & Vickers, J 2001, 'Womens Constitutional Activism in Australia and Canada', Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1-36.
- Sawer, M 2001, 'Pacemakers for the world?', in Marian Sawer (ed.), Elections Full, Free and Fair, The Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 1-27.
- Sawer, M & Zappala, G 2001, 'Introduction', in Marian Sawer and Gianni Zappala (ed.), Speaking for the People: Representation in Australian Politics, Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Carlton South, Vic, pp. 1-15.
- Sawer, M 2001, 'Representing Trees, Acres, Voters and Non-voters', in Marian Sawer and Gianni Zappala (ed.), Speaking for the People: Representation in Australian Politics, Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Carlton South, Vic, pp. 36-63.
- Sawer, M 2001, 'A Matter of Simple Justice?', in Marian Sawer and Gianni Zappala (ed.), Speaking for the People: Representation in Australian Politics, Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Carlton South, Vic, pp. 162-188.
- Jupp, J & Sawer, M 2001, 'Political parties, partisanship and electoral governance', in Marian Sawer (ed.), Elections Full, Free and Fair, The Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 216-233.
- Sawer, M 2000, 'The Ethical State: Social Liberalism and the Critique of Contract', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 114, pp. 67-90.
- Sawer, M 2000, 'Women and Labor: A question of heartland?', in Warhurst, J, Parkin, A (ed.), The Machine: Labor confronts the future, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, pp. 264-280.
- Sawer, M 2000, 'Parliamentary Representation of Women: From Discourses of Justice to Strategies of Accountability', International Political Science Review, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 361-380.
- Sawer, M 1999, 'Womens Ministries: An Australian Perspective', Feminist Review, no. 63, pp. 91-94.
- Russell, L & Sawer, M 1999, 'The Rise and Fall of the Australian Womens Bureau', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 362-375.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- 2021 APSA Workshop 'From Pioneers to Procrastinators?' (Secondary Investigator)
- Gendered Excellence in the Social Sciences (Secondary Investigator)
- Women and Leadership in a Century of Australian Democracy (Primary Investigator)
- FaHCSIA Gender Assessment (Primary Investigator)
- The Evolution of Social Movements (Primary Investigator)
- Democratic Choices: Ideas and Outcomes (Primary Investigator)
