Andrew Nurse

The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus (review)

Canadian PubliC PoliCy – analyse de Politiques, vol. xxxvi, no. 4 2010 systematically. Thus, for example, he provides a detailed assessment of the personality and leadership of a certain commission chair in one account of an inquiry’s success, but not in others. Is personality and leadership key, or simply serendipitous? At the same time it must be conceded that, as his study implicitly reveals, the wide range of types of public inquiries makes systematic assessment of their success as policy instruments very difficult. For every “finding” there is a counterfactual.