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Senior Lecturer in Politcal Science Chair - School Teaching Committee B.A M.A PhD 577 General Purpose North 3 (#39A) +61 7 3365 2090 +61 7 3365 1388 r.wear@uq.edu.au

Teaching Interests:

Background:

Rae Wear’s principal areas of research are on the nature and impact of populism and on rural politics and culture. She also has an ongoing interest in Australian state and federal politics.

Selected Publications:

1. Wear, R. 2002 The Lord’s Premier: Johannes Bjelke-Petersen. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 249.
2. Prasser, S., R. Wear and J. R. Nethercote. 1990. Corruption and Reform: The Fitzgerald Vision. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 268.
3. Wear, R., D. Murphy, R Joyce, M. Cribb, eds. 2003. The Premiers of Queensland 3rd edn. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 482.
4. Wear, R. 2000 ‘One Nation and the Queensland Right’. In Analysing the Rise and Fall of One Nation, eds. M. Leech, G. Stokes and I. Ward. University of Queensland Press, St.Lucia, 57-73.
5. Wear, R. 1990. ‘The Weighting Game - Do the Nationals Have a Case?’ In eds. S. Prasser, R. Wear and J. R. Nethercote. Corruption and Reform: The Fitzgerald Vision. University Queensland Press, St Lucia, 259-268.
6. Hede, A. and R. Wear, 1995. ‘Transformational versus Transactional Styles of Cabinet Leadership in Australian Politics’, Australian Journal of Political Science vol. 30, no.3, 469-485.
7. Wear, R. 2005. ‘Australian Liberalism, Past and Present’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol.51, no.3, 473-480.
8. Wear, R. 2005. ‘Brian Letton Goes to War’, In Country Music Goes to War, eds. C. K. Wolfe and J. E. Akenson, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington.152-164.
9. Wear, R. 1994. ‘Wayne Goss: a Leader in the Queensland Tradition?’ In The Goss Government: Promise and Performance of Labor in Queensland. eds. B. Stevens and J. Wanna, MacMillan, South Melbourne, 23-31.
10. Wear, R. 1991. ‘Minor Parties and Major Interest Groups’. In Political Crossroads: The 1989 Queensland State Election. eds. R. Whip and C. Hughes. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia.

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