Professor Richard Robison FASSA

Professor Richard Robison FASSA
BA (ANU), MA, PhD (Sydney)



Political science


2009

Profile

RICHARD ROBISON is Emeritus Professor at Murdoch University. Previous positions include Professor of Political Economy at the Institute for Social Studies, The Hague; Professor of Asian and International Politics, Murdoch University; Director, Australian Research Council's Special Research Centre for Political and Economic Change in Asia. He has held Fulbright and Leverhulme Fellowships.

Current interests include:

  • the rise of oligarchy in developing economies
  • political regimes in developing economies
  • markets and politics in developing economies

Appointments

  • Professor of Political Economy, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands. (2003 - 2006)
  • Leverhulme Professorial Fellow, Universidy of Warwick. (2001 - 2002)
  • Professor of Asian and International Politics / Director, Australian Research Council Special Centre for Political and Economic Change in Asia. (1994 - 1999)

Awards

Fulbright Senior Scholar 1989

Leverhulme Trust Professorial Fellowship 2001/02

Selected Publications

Robison, R & Hout, W (eds) (2008), Governance and the Anti-Politics of Development. London/New York: Routledge.

Robison, R (ed) (2006), The Neoliberal Revolution: Forging the Market State. London: Palgrave.

Robison, R & Hadiz, V (2004), Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets. London/New York: Routledge.

Robison, R (2005). 'How to Build Market Societies: the Paradoxes of Neo-liberalism', New Political Economy, 10 (2): 247 - 257.

Hadiz, V & Robison, R (2005). 'Neoliberal Reforms and Illiberal Consolidations: the case of Indonesia', Journal of Development Studies, 41, 2: 220 - 241.

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