Australia: The politics of becoming a republic

John Higley holds the Jack S. Blanton Chair in Australian Studies and direc ts the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian Studies at the University of T exas at Austin. His books include Elites in Australia (1979), Elitism (1980 ), Elites, Crises and the Origins of Regimes (1998), and Elites after State Socialism (2000). Rhonda Evans Case is a doctoral student in government at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is working on the politics of constitutional change in Australia and other parliamentary democracies.