Abstract
This article provides an overview of the state of political studies in Australia in the context of trends in university staffing since the 1990s. It then considers the results of two surveys of the discipline undertaken by the Australian Political Studies Association in 2008 and 2011. It draws out some implications from these data for political studies today, focusing on two key issues: uneven growth and a ‘scarce generation’. Finally, it makes recommendations for how political studies might meet some of these challenges. This article has been developed from the 2011 Presidential Address to the annual conference of the Australian Political Studies Association.
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