The Department of Political and Social Change (PSC) is a leader in the training of the next generation of scholars in the field of Asian politics and society in Australia, offering world-class graduate research programs.
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Our research
Our faculty, researchers and students grapple every day with the most pressing issues facing Asian politics and society. Our research strengthens links between industry, government and other research institutions around the world, placing our academic community at the forefront of international dialogue surrounding the key challenges of the region. Our research projects range from transitional justice in Cambodia and local politics in Southeast Asia, to election system redesign in the Philippines and women’s substantive representation in rural Chinese community government.
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Publications
Our faculty, researchers and students grapple every day with the most pressing issues facing Asian politics and society. Our research strengthens links between industry, government and other research institutions around the world, placing our academic community at the forefront of international dialogue surrounding the key challenges of the region.
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Jokowi's 2014 rise promised clean, populist government. A decade later, he left a fragile economy and hollow democracy, an authoritarian revival of co-optation and repression, at high democratic cost.
Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson trace twelve convicted Japanese war criminals from the Pacific War, plus one who escaped justice, examining how ordinary people came to commit wartime atrocities.
Professor Marcus Mietzner examines Jokowi's decade as Indonesian president, tracing his economic focus, elite grip, and the democratic costs behind his historic popularity.
