Professor Emeritus Michael W. Jackson
BA Hastings College
GradCert HigherEd NSW MA
PhD Alberta
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BACKGROUND
Michael Jackson is a political theorist who has supervised PhD theses on Carl Schmidt, Georg Hegel, Friedrich Schlegal, Jean-Jacques Roussseu, and others. The topics have included loyalty, reason and revolution, commitment, civic religion, and more. He twice received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for outstanding teaching.
His research concerns the continuing impact of political theorists like Plato, Aristotle, and Niccoló Machiavelli. He is the author of three books, numerous book chapters and more than seventy articles in international, refereed journals. He has also contributed many opinion pieces to the media and edited Wikipedia entries. He has posted reviews on Internet Movies Data Base and Amazon.com. His blog ‘Political Theory and Practice: Thinking and Doing’ has 150,000+ hits. It contains links to his videos on YouTube.
He is on the editorial boards of the American Review of Public Administration, the Journal of Management History (UK), Journal of Value Inquiry (Netherlands), Springer Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, and Theoria (South Africa). Earlier he served on the board of the Australian Journal of Political Science, the Australian Journal of Public Administration, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, Hobbes Studies (Finland), Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (USA).
He served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Director of the University’s Institute for Teaching and Learning, and Chair of the Department of Government and International Relations.
RESEARCH
Research Interests
- Political theory
- Utopia
- Ethics in public administration
PUBLICATIONS
Books Authored and Edited
Jackson, M 1994, Fallen sparrows : the international brigades in the Spanish Civil War, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
Hood, C & Jackson, M 1991, Administrative argument, Aldershot, Hants, England.
Jackson, M 1986, Matters of justice, Croom Helm, London.
Refereed Journal Articles
Jackson, M & Grace, D (2013 forthcoming), "The MACH IV Personality Construct in management and Niccolò Machiavelli", Philosophy of Management.
Jackson, M 2012, "Approaches to Learning and Teaching: Some Observations", Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 65-71, available online at http://www.viterbo.edu/atpp/.
Grace, D & Jackson, M 2009, "Every Man is a Friend to Every Man", Utopia and Utopianism' (Madrid), vol. III, pp. 15-27.
Jackson, M 2009, "Responsibility versus Accountability to the Friedrich - Finer Debate", Journal of Management History, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 66-77.
Jackson, M 2008, "I, Burocrat", Journal of Political and Parliamentary Law, vol. I, no. 1, pp. 359-68.
Jackson, M 2007, "Cracking the Thucydides Code", Antioch Review, vol. 65, vol. 1, pp. 173-85.
Jackson, M 2006, "Approaches to Teaching and Students' Perceptions of Teaching", Mountain Rise, vol. 3, no. 2.
Jackson, M 2006, "Memories of teaching", Quality Assurance in Education, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 385-97.
Jackson, M 2006, "Orders and Obedience: Structure and Agency", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, vol. 26, no. 7-8, pp. 309-25.
Jackson, M 2006, "'Great classroom teaching' and more: awards for outstanding teaching evaluted", The International Journal of Educational Management, vol. 20, pp. 261-278.
Jackson, M & Coluhoun, T 2005, "The Swedish Model", Australian Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 20-27 and 38-39.
Jackson, M 2005, "Philosopher-Kings and Bankers", Theoria, vol. 107, pp. 19-35.
Jackson, M 2005, "The eighteenth century antecedents of bureaucracy, the Cameralists", Management Decision, vol. 43, no. 10, pp. 1293-1303.
Jackson, M 2002, "Managing Teaching?", The Drawing Board - Digest, vol. 3, no. 1.
Jackson, M 2001, "Designed by theorists: Aristotle on utopia", Utopian Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 1-12.
Jackson, M 2000, "Imagined Republics: Machiavelli. Utopia, and Utopia", Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 34, pp. 427-437.
Jackson, M 2000, "Mushrooms like men", Hobbes Studies, vol. 13, pp. 46-57.
Jackson, M 1997, "But Learners Learn More", Higher Education Research and Development, vol. 16.
Jackson, M 1997, "Political Capture", Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 56.
Jackson, M 1997, "Socrates' Soul and Our Own", Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 31.
Non-Refereed Journal Articles
Jackson, M & Grace, D 2012, "Machiavellian monkey business: Machiavellian intelligence in primates and Machiavelli", Montréal Review, December, available online at http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Machiavellian-intelligence-in-primates-and-Machiavelli.php
Book Chapters
Jackson, M 2011, "Aristotle", in Springer Encyclopedia of The Sciences of Learning, Springer, Berlin.
Jackson, M 2011, "John Dewey", in Springer Encyclopedia of The Sciences of Learning, Springer, Berlin.
Jackson, M 2011, "John Locke", in Springer Encyclopedia of The Sciences of Learning, Springer, Berlin.
Jackson, M 2011, "Karl Marx", in Springer Encyclopedia of The Sciences of Learning, Springer, Berlin.
Jackson, M 2011, "John Stuart Mill", in Springer Encyclopedia of The Sciences of Learning, Springer, Berlin.
Jackson, M 2011, "Plato", in Springer Encyclopedia of The Sciences of Learning, Springer, Berlin.
Jackson, M 2011, "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", in Springer Encyclopedia of The Sciences of Learning, Springer, Berlin.
Jackson, M 2011, "Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis", in Springer Encyclopedia of The Sciences of Learning, Springer, Berlin.
Jackson, M 2011, "Deep Approaches to Learning in Higher Education", in Springer Encyclopedia of The Sciences of Learning, Springer, Berlin.
Grace, D & Jackson, M "Lawrence Kohberg", in Springer Encyclopedia of The Sciences of Learning, Springer, Berlin.
Jackson, M 2007, "Utopia", in B Galligan & W Roberts (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Smith, R & Jackson, M 2007, "Corruption", in B Galligan & W Roberts (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Jackson, M 2004, "Bureaucracy in Hegel's Political Theory", in B Jenkins & E Page (eds), The Foundations of Bureaucracy in Economic and Social Thought, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
Jackson, M 2001, "Cashing in on Machiavelli", in S Wilsey (ed), Leadership bridges, Acorn Press, Lancaster.
Jackson, M & Smith, R 2000, "Inside Moves and Outside Views: An Australian Case Study of Elite and Public Perceptions of Political Corruption", in R Williams (ed.), The Politics of Corruption, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
Jackson, M 1997, "Democratic Theory and Practice", in Australian Politics, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
Jackson, M 1996, "The Real and the Rational", in J Stewart (ed), The Hegel Myths and Legends, Northwestern University Press, Evanston.
Selected Conference Papers
Jackson, M 2012, “The Theory of Dinner”, paper presented at the annual meeting of the Utopia Studies Society, Toronto, Canada, October.
Jackson, M & Grace D 2012, “Machiavelli and the Machiavellian Personaltiy Test,’ paper presented at the annula meeting of Australia Political Studies Assocaition, Hobart, September.
Jackson, M 2011, "Equality at the table: Amazing and Frightening?", paper presented at a meeting of Research Committee 31 on Political Philosophy of the International Political Science Association, Macquarie University, July.
Grace, D & Jackson, M 2011, "Machiavelli's Echo in Management", paper presented at the annual meeting of the Australian Political Studies Association, Canberra, September.
Jackson, M & Sachs, J 2005, "Integrating the scholarship of teaching into a research university", paper presented at International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vancouver: ISSOTL.
Jackson, M 2005, "Great Class Room Teaching: Awards for Teaching", paper presented at International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning", Vancouver: ISSOTL.
Jackson, M & Ross R 2005, "Approaches to Economics Education", paper presented at the Eleventh Australasian Teaching Economics Conference: Innovation for Student Engagement in Economics, Sydney University.
Jackson, M 2005, "Serving time: The relation of good and bad teaching", paper presented at HERDSA Conference, Sydney,3-6 July 2005.
Jackson, M 2002, "Bankers as Philosopher-Monarchs", paper presented at International Leadership Association Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Jackson, M 2002, "IKEA as Utopia", paper presented at Utopian Studies Association Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Jackson, M 1999, "Designed by theorists: Aristotle on Utopia", paper presented at the 1999 Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Sydney.