Professor Emeritus Michael W. Jackson
BA Hastings College
GradCert HigherEd NSW MA
PhD Alberta
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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 Interests
- Political theory
- Utopia
- Ethics in public administration
Publications
2011
Forthcoming
Biographical entries of Aristotle, John Dewey, Lawrence Kohberg (with Damian Grace), John Locke, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and conceptual entries on deep approaches to learning in higher education, and the Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis for the Springer Encyclopedia of The Sciences of Learning
Conference Paper
'Equality at the table: Amazing and Frieghtening?' at a meeting of Research Committee 31 on Political Philosophy of the International Political Science Association, Macquarie University, July 2011.
'Machiavelli's Echo in Management' at the annual meeting of the Australian Political Studies Associations, Canberra, September 2011 with Damian Grace
2009
Journal Article/s
Every Man is a Friend to Every Man, 'Utopia and Utopianism' (Madrid), III (2009), 15-27. With Damian Grace
'Responsibility versus Accountability in the Friedrich - Finer Debate,' Journal of Management History, 15 (2009)1, 66-77.
2008
Journal Article/s
Jackson M 2008, 'I, Burocrat', Journal of Political and Parliamentary Law I(1), 359-68.
2007
Book Section/s
Jackson M 2007 'Utopia' in The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, ed. Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts, Oxford University Press, Melbourne pp. 612-13.
Smith R and Jackson M 2007 'Corruption' in The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, ed. Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts, Oxford University Press, Melbourne pp. 140-42.
Journal Article/s
Jackson M 2007 'Cracking the Thucydides Code', Antioch Review, vol.65:1, pp. 173-85.
2006
Journal Article/s
Jackson M 2006 'Approaches to Teaching and Students' Perceptions of Teaching', Mountain Rise, vol.3:2.
Jackson M 2006 'Memories of teaching', Quality Assurance in Education, vol.14:4, pp. 385-97.
Jackson M 2006 'Orders and Obedience: Structure and Agency', International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, vol.26:7-8, pp. 309-25.
Jackson MW 2006 '"Great classroom teaching" and more: awards for outstanding teaching evaluted', The International Journal of Educational Management, vol.20, pp. 261-278.
2005
Journal Article/s
Jackson M and Coluhoun T 2005 'The Swedish Model', Australian Quarterly, vol.77:2, pp. 20-27, Pages 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.43:10, pp. 1293-1303.
Conference Paper/s
Jackson M and Sachs J 2005 'Integrating the scholarship of teaching into a research university',International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vancouver: ISSOTL.
Jackson M 2005 'Great Class Room Teaching: Awards for Teaching',International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vancouver: ISSOTL.
Conference Proceeding/s
Jackson M and Ross R 2005 'Approaches to Economics Education', Proceedings of 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', HERDSA Conference, Sydney,3-6 July 2005.
2004
Book Section/s
Jackson MW 2004 'Bureaucracy in Hegel's Political Theory' in The Foundations of Bureaucracy in Economic and Social Thought, ed. Bill Jenkins and Edward C. Page, Edward Elgar, pp. 3-22.
2002
Journal Article/s
Jackson MW 2002 'Managing Teaching?' The Drawing Board - Digest, vol.3:1.
Conference Paper/s
Jackson MW 2002 'Bankers as Philosopher-Monarchs',International Leadership Association Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Jackson MW 2002 'IKEA as Utopia',Utopian Studies Association Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA.
2001
Book Section/s
Jackson MW 2001 'Cashing in on Machiavelli' in Leadership bridges, ed. Shelly Wilsey, Acorn Press, Lancaster, PA pp. 95-109.
Journal Article/s
Jackson M 2001 'Designed by theorists: Aristotle on utopia', Utopian Studies, vol.12:2, pp. 1-12.
2000
Book Section/s
Jackson M and Smith R 2000 'Inside Moves and Outside Views: An Australian Case Study of Elite and Public Perceptions of Political Corruption' in The Politics of Corruption, ed. Robert Williams, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K. pp. 479-500.
Journal Article/s
Jackson M 2000 'Imagined Republics: Machiavelli. Utopia, and Utopia', Journal of Value Inquiry, vol.34, pp. 427-437.
Jackson MW 2000 'Mushrooms like men', Hobbes Studies, vol.13, pp. 46-57.
1999
Conference Proceeding/s
Jackson MW 1999 'Designed by theorists: Aristotle on Utopia"', Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Sydney.
1997
Book Section/s
Jackson MW 1997 'Democratic Theory and Practice' in Australian Politics, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
Journal Article/s
Jackson MW 1997 'But Learners Learn More', Higher Education Research and Development, vol.16.
Jackson MW 1997 'Political Capture', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol.56.
Jackson MW 1997 'Socrates' Soul and Our Own', Journal of Value Inquiry, vol.31.
1994
Book/s
Jackson MW 1994 Fallen sparrows : the international brigades in the Spanish Civil War, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
1991
Book/s
Hood C and Jackson MW 1991 Administrative argument, Aldershot, Hants, England.
1986
Book/s
Jackson MW 1986 Matters of justice, Croom Helm, London.