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 The Department is located in three protected villas on Symonds Street in Auckland, New Zealand The Department of Political Studies at the University of Auckland was established in 1964, with Robert MacDonald Chapman as the inaugural Professor of Political Studies. The Department has fourteen permanent academic staff making it one of the largest in Australasia. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
The University of Auckland (MÄori: Te Whare WÄnanga o TÄmaki Makaurau) is New Zealands largest research-based university. ...
The University of Auckland (MÄori: Te Whare WÄnanga o TÄmaki Makaurau) is New Zealands largest research-based university. ...
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The University of Auckland (MÄori: Te Whare WÄnanga o TÄmaki Makaurau) is New Zealands largest research-based university. ...
Early history of the Department
(Adapted from "A History of the Department of Political Studies: 1964-1987", see: Sources)
 Robert MacDonald Chapman, date unknown The study of Politics at the University of Auckland began with the subject Political History under Associate-Professor Bill Airey. Dr Airey's courses on the United States and on 20th century European developments stressed the interlocking of political institutions, parties and economic factors in such a way that one saw political economy in the round as it operated through time. His approach to New Zealand developments was of the same holistic kind and, from his example, a whole generation of political historians emerged. The Philosophy Department presented for some years a course known as Political Science I which was given by Dick Anschutz and was devoted to leading democratic thinkers from the 17th century to the 19th century. The need for a separate Department which could develop all sides of the discipline was argued through the early 1960s and in 1963 the Chair was advertised. At the end of the year Robert Chapman, who was then an Associate-Professor in the Department of History, was appointed to found a Department of Political Studies. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (572x955, 189 KB) Early photograph of Professor Robert MacDonald Chapman. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (572x955, 189 KB) Early photograph of Professor Robert MacDonald Chapman. ...
The first step was to recruit the initial staff. Dr Ruth Butterworth and Bill Mandle came from London and Adelaide respectively to begin the teaching of Stages I and II with Professor Chapman. The Stage II students were a small number who had either taken Political Science I in the past or had taken a unit of Political Science from Victoria. In 1966 Stage III was added and the first of thesis was supervised on the basis of a degree taken elsewhere. James Sattler, an American from Stanford who had been working with the Hoover Institution, joined the staff briefly before moving back to the United States after eight months. In Sattler's place, Dr Graham Bush joined the staff for 1967 and the four staff tackled Honours teaching with the presentation of four papers. The Department's student body was growing by leaps and bounds and numbers of Stage I students reached 269 in 1968.
The third development phase was the setting up of the Research Section by the appointment of Elizabeth Rowley in 1967. Thus the emphases of the Department on presenting a wide range of papers at all levels, on tutorials as a key means of teaching and on research, contemporary archives and serials available in our own Reading Room had all been established three years after teaching began.
 Robert MacDonald Chapman and students outside 16 Symonds St, 1971 What the Department still required was a specialist in the History of Political Ideas and Political Philosophy generally. Dr Andrew Sharp came up from the University of Canterbury in 1971 and took over the teaching of Political Ideas. The quest for a way of expanding the number of courses on Asian Politics involved prolonged advertising for a specialist on South-East Asia. Dr Stephen Hoadley arrived from Washington University at St. Louis in 1972. In 1973 Helen Clark was appointed a junior lecturer. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (963x663, 157 KB) From the Departmental Photograph Collection. ...
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 Helen Clark outside the Department, 1973 In the late 1970s Elizabeth McLeay was elected to one of the earliest Rhodes fellowships for women and, after her departure for Oxford, Helen Clark took her place in the Diploma of Local Government & Administration course and in New Zealand Government and Policy-making at Stage II. Elizabeth's Honours papers on Political Elites which was begun in 1975 was succeeded to by Helen's Image File history File links Helenclark2. ...
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paper on Rural Political Sociology and that was taught until Helen Clark moved from the Department to Parliament at the end of 1981.
Physically the Department began as offices in the Old Arts Building. When number 12 Symonds Street (now number 16) was acquired by the University, a year was spent getting it into shape to be the Department's headquarters. The Department then managed to acquire two offices in the front of what is now number 14 Symonds Street, later demolished to provide the veranda and a Reading Room. The Department had rooms in the Vaile Building, in 4 Grafton Road (both since demolished), Rex Court, and behind number 12 Symonds Street. Masters students were camping in the "doll's house" which had previously served as an extension for number 12 in its days as a boarding-house. When at last Architecture arose on its present site, Town Planning departed from what are now numbers 14 and 12 Symonds Street and the three buildings were extensively repaired, restored and refurbished. As the staff and students had hoped and striven for many years, the elegance of these three merchant houses dating from the 1880s now stood out and added a note of handsome, dignity to the campus. The Department moved in to all three of the buildings in their renovated state in August 1980. By that time, the research department, the offices and the staff more than filled them and the biggest MA intake in the Department's history had to be spread about in all adjacent directions.
Space was provided for archives, research and a lecture theatre suited to Stage II and III needs in the Arts/Commerce Building which is located immediately behind the departmental buildings in Symonds Street.
With the retirement of Bob Chapman at the end of January 1988 after 24 years as the founding head of the Department, the Political Studies Department reached the end of an era.
Subjects taught
Comparative politics In comparative politics, the Department specialises in New Zealand electoral systems, patterns of public policy, and forms of government. Comparative politics is a huge subfield of political science that studies the various forms of government found throughout the world. ...
Politics and the media The intersection of politics with television, radio, and the press forms the focus of the Department's teaching and research in the field of politics and the media. The Department supervises a group of audio-visual and print archives that are used in teaching, and can be drawn on for graduate research. The Chapman Archive and the Jonathan Hunt Collection are two preminent examples.
International relations The Department covers most orthodox and contemporary topics in international relations. These include the institution of the nation state, international organisations, transnational corporations, non-state actors and civil society, human rights, global governance, foreign policy, trade policy, international security, international political economy, and international law. International relations (IR), a branch of political science, is the study of foreign affairs of and relations among states within the international system, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and multinational corporations (MNCs). ...
Public policy The Department has particular expertise in the field of Public policy. Among other areas, studies in public policy focus on health policy, environmental policy, and education policy, together with key debates in public policy theory (for example, between the principles of efficiency and equity). Public policy is a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a problem. ...
Political theory / Political philosophy The Department offers a number of courses in political theory, introducting students to important thinkers, and discussing key theoretical issues, before exploring the historical grounding and intellectual context of political thought.
Research in the Department The Department has a strong research culture and reputation. The Department came third in New Zealand in the relevant PBRF category, and the international reputations and output of the Department's academics are thought to compare well with similar departments in Australia. The Department's website states that "despite its small size, it is clearly a high performer when compared against the full range of departments in other places, such as the United States and Britain." The Performance Based Research Fund is a New Zealand tertiary education funding process, assessing the research performance of tertiary education organisations (TEOs) and then funding them on the basis of their performance. ...
Funding sources for the Department's research activities include the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Marsden Fund, the Foundation for Research, Science, and Technology, and other contestable funds run by government agencies. Additionally, academics source finding from research contracts with government or non-government organisations, and through collaborative projects with overseas collegues.
Research forms a significant portion of postgraduate study in the Department, with PhD students in particular being encouraged to disseminate their work publically.
Archive resources
Robert and Noeline Chapman Audio-Visual Archive The Department archives New Zealand television and radio news bulletins and current affairs programmes. These holdings are kept in the Robert and Noeline Chapman Audio-Visual Archive. The archive is administered by Departmental Research Assistants, and located on the city campus of the University of Auckland.
New Zealand Foreign Policy Research Archive Launched in October 2006, the New Zealand Foreign Policy Research Archive is a repository of selected quantitative and qualitative findings arising from New Zealand foreign policy research, a consolidated, accessible, and up-to-date directory of research information and contacts, and a venue for the lodging of new research information as it is generated, thereby encouraging further research.
Graduate study The Department offers four key programmes across three levels: the Bachelor of Arts(Honours), the Master of Arts, the Master of Professional Studies in International Relations and Human Rights and the Doctor of Philosophy. A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ...
Master of Professional Studies (MPS, or MProfStuds, or MProfStudies) is a terminal interdisciplinary academic degree and is sometimes used by programs that do not fit into any traditional categories. ...
Organisational linkages The Department has organisational linkages with the following organisations: - The New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (Auckland Branch) 1
- The New Zealand Political Studies Association 2
- The University of Auckland Political Studies Students' Society 3
Department of Political Studies' staff and their expertises The table below lists the fourteen current permanent academic staff in the Department of Political Studies as of 19 November 2006. | Name | Position | Qualification | Expertise Field | | Associate Professor Raymond Miller | Associate Professor and Heads of Department of Political Studies | BA McMaster DipEd MA PhD Auckland | Themes in New Zealand politics, notably: political parties; elections; coalition formation and government; political leadership; republicanism. | | Associate Professor Michael Minstrom | Associate Professor and Deputy Heads of Department of Political Studies | MA Canterbury PhD State University of New York at Stony Brook | Theoretical and empirical analysis of public policy issues, the politics of policy reform. | | Professor John Morrow | Professor and Dean of Arts | MA Canterbury PhD York | History of political thought, political philosophy, nineteenth century social and political thought. | | Professor Jack Vowles | Professor of Political Studies | BA MA Auck PhD BrCol FRSNZ | New Zealand and comparative politics, political behaviour, public opinion, elections, electoral systems and political participation. | | Associate Professor Stephen Hoadley | Associate Professor of Political Studies, Undergraduate Advisor and Coordinator for Master of Professional Studies in International Relations and Human Rights | BSc Purdue MA Calif. State PhD Calif | Foreign and security policies of New Zealand, Australia, Asia, United States, Europe, and the Middle East; politics of trade; international human rights. | | Dr Joe Atkinson | Senior Lecturer in Political Studies and Ethics Advisor | MA Canterbury PhD Yale | Political communications, television news, election campaign coverage, tabloid journalism. | | Dr Paul G. Buchanan | Senior Lecturer in Political Studies | BA St Michael's College MA Georgetown PhD Chicago | Comparative politics (general), military, labour, and Latin American politics, international relations. | | Dr Jennifer Curtin | Senior Lecturer in Political Studies | MA (Hons) Waikato PhD ANU | Gender, public policy, comparative and Australian politics and policy, trade unionism, and rural politics and policy. | | Dr Jennifer Lees-Marshment | Senior Lecturer in Political Studies | BA(Hons) Keele MA (Distinction) Manchester PhD Keele | Political marketing (UK and comparative), political parties and elections, British politics, parliaments. | | Dr Jacqui True | Senior Lecturer in Political Studies | MA Arizona PhD York | Globalization, trade and international political economy, international relations theory, global civil society, gender and international relations, women and politics. | | Dr Jian Yang | Senior Lecturer in Political Studies, Postgraduate Advisor and International/Asian Students' Liaison Officer | MA ANU PhD ANU | International relations theory, foreign policy-making, Asian security, environmental and Chinese politics. | | Dr Geoff Kemp | Lecturer in Political Studies | MPhil PhD Cambridge | Themes in media and the history of ideas, censorship and toleration, media and revolutions. | | Dr Anita Lacey | Lecturer in Political Studies | BA(Hons) Monash PhD Monash | Global politics and governance, development and poverty reduction, human security, international organisations (UN, World Bank, IMF) and global civil society. | | Dr Katherine Smits | Lecturer in Political Studies, Deputy Postgraduate Advisor and Equal Educational Opportunities and Women's Liaison Officer | BJur Western Australia BA(Hons) Western Australia MPhil Cambridge MA Cornell PhD Cornell | Contemporary political ideas, justice, equality, the history of political ideas, identity politics and multiculturalism, women and politics. |
Rankings - The Department is located within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland, ranked the twenty-fifth best faculty of arts and humanities by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2005.
The Performance Based Research Fund is a New Zealand tertiary education funding process, assessing the research performance of tertiary education organisations (TEOs) and then funding them on the basis of their performance. ...
Prominent alumni, alumnae, and associates of the Department - Helen Clark, 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand, MP for Mt.Albert, Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Minister in Charge of the NZ Security Intelligence Service, Minister Responsible for the GCSB and Minister Responsible for Ministerial Services.
- Phil Goff, MP for Mt.Roskill, Minister of Defence, Minister for Trade Negotiations, Minister of Trade, Minister of Pacific Island Affairs, Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control and Associate Minister of Finance.
- Jonathan Hunt, New Zealand's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
For other persons named Helen Clark, see Helen Clark (disambiguation). ...
Foreign Minister Phil Goff The Honourable Philip Bruce Goff (born 22 June 1953), generally known as Phil Goff, is the current Minister of Defence of New Zealand. ...
This article is about the former Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives. ...
Sources Website of the Department - http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/pol.
Information about the history of the Department was obtained from: R. McD. Chapman, "A History of the Department of Political Studies: 1964-1987", Department of Political Studies, University of Auckland, 1988, as updated by G. W. A. Bush and H. Devere.
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