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Daniel Casey

Published work


Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writingPolicy Studies (2024)

Selective rememberings? Access to ‘private’ documents of former Ministers and Prime Ministers at the National Archives of AustraliaHumanities Research Journal (Lead author, with Josh Black) (2024)

Access to documents about Australia’s political history is fraught and inadequate. It needs to change The Conversation (2024)

ChatGPT in Public Policy Teaching and Assessment: An Examination of Opportunities and Challenges Australian Journal of Public Administration (2024)

Encyclopedia of Political Communications – Letters to leaders (accepted – forthcoming) (Lead author, with Brandon Rottinghaus)

Bridging the expectation gap: A survey of Australian PhD candidates and supervisors in politics and international relationsAustralian Journal of Political Science (Lead author, with Serrin Rutledge-Prior) (2023)

“An Isolating experience aggravated by COVID”: Disconnection between political science PhD candidates and supervisors in the wake of COVID-19 PS: Political Science and Politics (with Serrin Rutledge-Prior) (2023)

Hard Work and You Can’t Get it: An International Comparative Analysis of Gender, Career Aspirations, and Preparedness Among Politics and International Relations PhD StudentsPS: Political Science and Politics (Lead author, with Serrin Rutledge-Prior, Lisa Young, Jonathan Mally and Loleen Berdahl) (2023)

Proudly ‘disinterested’ – A public administration career for social science PhD graduates.” In Non-Academic Careers for Quantitative Social Scientists: A Practical Guide to Maximizing Your Skills and Opportunities, edited by Natalie Jackson. Springer. (Lead author, with Mark Fletcher)

How letters to leaders can improve our understanding of public opinion” – ECPR The Loop, September 2022.

“Dear John…’: Letters from the Public to Prime Minister Howard – Policy Perspectives Series, John Howard Prime Ministerial Library (UNSW) (ANU repository version) (2022)

Accessing Documents of Former Ministers – Plugging the Accountability Gap” Public Law Review 33: 91-96 (SSRN version) (2022)

Book Review: Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies 1949–1966. By Martyn Lyons (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2021), pp. vi+ 266. AU $39.99 (pb)”. Australian Journal of Politics and History 67: 533-534 (2022)

Managing and sustaining the APS workforce: a graduate perspective” Public Administration Today 6: 35-36 (2006).

Papers being prepared or under review


The ‘Unheavenly Chorus’ vs ‘Won’t you please, please help me?’:  Two distinct ways of contacting elected officials? (in preparation) (with Intifar Chowdhury)