Don Aitkin

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Don Aitkin is affiliated with the following schools: University of Canberra, University of Michigan, University of New England , Macquarie University, Australian National University

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#2468

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PhD Political Science Australian National University

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According to Wikipedia, Don Aitkin AO was a political scientist, writer, and administrator. Until 2012 he was Chairman of Australia’s National Capital Authority. He served as Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra from 1991 to 2002, and as Vice-President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee in 1994 and 1995. He played an influential role in the evolution of national policies for research and higher education from the mid-1980s, when he was the Chairman of the Australian Research Grants Committee, a member of the Australian Science and Technology Council, and Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University. Appointed as the first Chairman of the Australian Research Council in 1988, he established the new body as a national research council of world class; its funding trebled during his term of office. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1998.

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Stability and change in Australian politics (1977) (157)
Australian Political Institutions (1980) (68)
Society and Electoral Behaviour in Australia. (1979) (54)
How Research Came to Dominate Higher Education and What Ought to Be Done about It. (1990) (29)
Surveys of Australian Political Science (1985) (19)
What Do Vice-Chancellors Do?. (1998) (17)
The Country Party in New South Wales: A study of organisation and survival (1972) (11)
What Was It All For? : The Reshaping of Australia (2005) (11)
The Vexed Question of Research Priorities: An Australian Example (1997) (9)
The federal election (1970) (8)
Perceptions of partisan bias in the Australian mass media (1972) (7)
Talk-Back Radio and Political Participation (1973) (6)
Australian attitudes towards the Papua New Guinea area since World War II (1973) (6)
Tracking down the DLP Voter (1972) (6)
The colonel;: A political biography of Sir Michael Bruxner (1969) (5)
Big Government: The Australian Experience (1983) (5)
The organisation of the Australian Country Party (N.S.W), 1946 to 1962 (1964) (4)
Australian Political Institutions 10th Edition (2013) (4)
Higher Education: A Short History of Change (2000) (4)
The federal redistribution of 1968: A case study in Australian political conflict (1970) (4)
THE AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH GRANTS COMMITTEE: AN ACCOUNT OF THE WAY THINGS WERE (1996) (4)
Music and Place (2009) (3)
Postal and Absent Voting: A Democratic Dilemma (1971) (2)
Red blood cell glutathione peroxidase in simple trisomy 21 and translocation 21/22 (1982) (2)
A sample of surveys — 1970 (1971) (1)
Australian attitudes towards Papua New Guinea on the eve of independence (1976) (1)
The Country Party and Non‐Labor Unity in New South Wales, 1944 to 1964 * (2008) (1)
Research policy in Australia, 1989–1999: a retrospective (2000) (1)
The politician as historian: [Book review: Jones, Barry. A Thinking Reed: An Autobiography (2006).] (2007) (0)
Comment on 'Taxation and Policy Change: A Median Voter Model For Australia 1968-69 to 1981-83' (1985) (0)
A sample of surveys (1970) (0)
The Phlegmatic Electorate (1967) (0)
Critical Mass: How the Commonwealth got into funding research in universities (2017) (0)
Australian Government and Politics (2009) (0)
Forward the Humanities (1989) (0)
LOOKING AHEAD AT REAR VIEW MIRRORS (1970) (0)
Documents: The real history of the coalition. a final word from the seven progressives (1971) (0)
Books (2006) (0)
Do pervious pavements really need pervious surfaces? The concept of the macro-pervious pavement as a SuDS device (2015) (0)
Antenatal diagnosis of trisomy 21 - the West of Scotland experience: 10. (1997) (0)
Australian Politics and Politicians: Some Reflections on Recent Writing (1971) (0)
Is the ABC's political culture compatible with its own code of practice? (2012) (0)
Private Wealth and Public Squalor: An Uneasy Electorate (1969) (0)
Dumbing Down: Some Thoughts on a Phrase of our Time (2002) (0)
Notes and commentary (1967) (0)
International Workbook: Political Participation (Australia) (1984) (0)
Trends in Funding Arrangements (1988) (0)
The Arts, and Government (2011) (0)
The Australasian Political Studies Association (1981) (0)
Books (2006) (0)
Research and politics‐presidential address: APSA conference 1980 (1981) (0)
Finding a new legend (1997) (0)
The second chair (2016) (0)
A University Becoming (2020) (0)
Relaxed and Comfortable: Correspondence (2005) (0)
What's Left?: Correspondence (2006) (0)
Educating Everybody: Properly! (2013) (0)

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