Professor Lisa Hill

Professor Lisa Hill
 Position Professor
 Org Unit School of Social Sciences
 Email lisa.hill@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone 0 8363 4865
 Location Floor/Room 4 ,  Napier ,   North Terrace
  • Biography/ Background

    Before taking up her position as Professor of Politics at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, Lisa was an ARC Senior Fellow (ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide) and a Fellow in the Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU. Prior to that she lectured for 7 years in the Department of Government, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Sydney and, as a Rhodes Scholar, took a D.Phil. in Politics at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Oxford. Her current areas of interest are: political theory, intellectual history, issues in electoral law and selected issues in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Politics. Lisa is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥.

     

     

    GRANT FUNDING

    ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Research Council (ARC) GRANTS.

    2014-2016. ARC Discovery Grant, Project Title: 'The First 'Liberals': Stoicism in the Enlightenment' (with Han Baltussen).

    2012-2014. ARC Discovery Grant, Project Title: 'The Science of Welfare: Adam Smith's Political Thought'.

     2009-10. ARC Discovery Grant: Project Title: ‘Is Compulsory Voting Defensible’? 

     2007-2009 ARC Discovery Grant. Project Title: ‘Corrupting Government: An Intellectual History of Political Corruption’ (with Wilf Prest and Bruce Buchan).

     2003-6 ARC Large Industry Linkage Grant. Project title: Electronic Voting and Electoral Inclusion: Implications for South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥’. 

    2001-6. ARC Five Year Discovery Fellowship. Project: ‘Friendship and Strangership'. 

     

    Other Grants

     2008 ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Hosting Conference Scheme. (with Ian Hall).

     2007. Academy of Social Sciences Workshop Grant (with Ian Hall and Wilf Prest).

     2007. ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Hosting Conference Scheme. (with Ian Hall).

     2007. Faculty Strategic Research Grants Scheme grant.

     2006 ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Faculty Small Research Grant. Project Title: ‘Testing Some Controvertible Claims About Compulsory Voting’.

     2004 ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Faculty Small Research Grant. Project Title: ‘Compulsory Voting: Effectiveness, Appropriateness and Comparative Lessons’.

     2002 ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Faculty Small Grant. Project Title: ‘Developing a Template for a Best Practice Regime Derived from ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n and Comparative Data’.

     

    Research Centres

    Lisa is an Associate Investigator on the ARC History of Emotions 1100-1800 Centre of Excellence.  She is a founding member of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit (UofA) and an Executive Committee and Management Committee member of the Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre.

  • Teaching Interests

    Political Theory; Intellectual History; Electoral Law; ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Politics. Lisa's current ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥nist interests are in electoral law and electoral inclusion. Her theory interests are in issues in liberal democratic theory and rights while her intellectual history interests are in the Scottish Enlightenment, classical political economy, the development and prehistory of liberal thought, classical Stoicism and political corruption.

    PUBLICATIONS

     Books.

     
    Jason Brennan and Lisa Hill, 2014. Compulsory Voting: For and Against, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Press.

    Buchan, B. and Hill, L. 2014. An Intellectual History of Corruption, New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan.  

    Ian Hall and Lisa Hill (eds). 2009. British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier, Palgrave-MacMillan.
     
    Louise Chappell, John Chesterman and Lisa Hill. The Politics of Human Rights in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥, Melbourne: Cambridge ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Press, 2009.  

    Lisa Hill. The Passionate Society: The Social, Political and Moral Thought of Adam Ferguson, Berlin/New York: Springer, 2006.  

    Louise Chappell and Lisa Hill (eds). The Politics of Women’s Interests: New Comparative and International Perspectives,  London: Routledge, 2006.  

      Special Issues.

    Louise Chappell and Lisa Hill (eds). Gendered Interests, a special issue of Policy Organisation and Society, 22, (1) July, 2003.

     

    Anthoula Malkopoulou and Lisa Hill. 2016. Equality and Representation, a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 19 (5), in press.

     Book Chapters.

    Lisa Hill. 2016. 'Adam Smith and Political Theory', in Hanley, R. (ed) Adam Smith: His Life, Thought and Legacy, Princeton: Princeton ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Press.

    Lisa Hill. 'Adam Ferguson's Sociology of Emotion' in D. Lemmings and A. Brooks, Norbert Elias: Emotional Styles and Historical Change, New York: Routledge, 2014.

    Lisa Hill, ‘Ideas of Corruption in the Eighteenth Century: The Competing Conceptions of Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith’ in Manuhuia Barcham, Barry Hindess and Peter Larmour (eds) Corruption: Expanding the Focus, Canberra: ANU Press, 2012, 97-112.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Informal Voting Under a System of Compulsory Voting’, in Costar, B., Orr, G. and Tham, J. (eds) Electoral Regulation and Prospects for ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Democracy, Melbourne ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Press, 2011.

    Lisa Hill. ‘Adam Smith on War (and Peace)’ in Ian Hall and Lisa Hill. British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier , New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009.

     Lisa Hill. ‘A Complicated Vision: The Political Thought of Adam Ferguson’, in Eugene Heath and Vincenzo Merolle (eds), Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009.

     Lisa Hill and Jonathan Louth. Compulsory Voting and Turnout: The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Case’, in Asifa Begum (ed) Election Law, Hyderabad: ICFAI ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Books, 2009.  

    Ian Hall and Lisa Hill.  ‘Introduction’ in Ian Hall and Lisa Hill. British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier, New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009.  

    Lisa Hill and Kate Alport. ‘Electronic Conduits to Electoral Inclusion in an Atypical Constituency: The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Case’, in Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Editor-in-Chief, E-Government Diffusion, Policy and Impact: Advanced Issues and Practices, Pennsylvania: IGA Global, 2009.

     Lisa Hill and Kate Alport. ‘Reconnecting ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥’s Politically Excluded: Electronic Pathways to Electoral Inclusion’, in A. Anttiroiko (ed), Electronic Government: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, (Volume 3) IGI Global, Hershey, New York, 2008 (reprint of Hill and Alport, 2007).  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Parliamentary Privilege and Homosexual Vilification’, in Gelber, K. and Stone, A. (eds) Free Speech and Hate Speech in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥, Federation Press, 2007.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘The Role of Thumos in Adam Smith’s System of Thought’, in Geoff Cockfield, Ann Firth and John Laurent (eds) Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, Edward Elgar, 2007.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Women’s Interests and Political Orientations: The Gender Voting Gap in Three Industrialised Settings’ in Chappell, L. and Hill, L.  (eds) The Politics of Women’s Interests: New Comparative and International Perspectives, Routledge, England, 2006.  

    Lisa Hill and Louise Chappell, ’Introduction’, The Politics of Women’s Interests: New Comparative and International Perspectives (co-edited with L. Chappell) Routledge, London, 2006.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Classical Stoicism and a Difference of Opinion?’ in T. Battin (ed) A Passion for Politics: Essays in Honour of Graham Maddox, Longman Pearson, 2005.  

    Lisa Hill. 'The Hidden Theology of Adam Smith' in Economics and Religion, Paul Oslington (ed), Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2003.
     
    Lisa Hill. ‘Democratic Deficit: Is CIR the Solution to a Problem Compulsory Voting Has Already Solved?’, in Williams, J and MacIntyre, C. (eds) Peace Order and Good Government: Constitutional and Parliamentary Reform,Wakefield Press, 2003, pp. 133-149.  

    Lisa Hill and Peter McCarthy. ‘Hume, Smith and Ferguson: Friendship in Commercial Society’, in Preston King and Heather Devere (eds), The Challenge to Friendship in
    Modernity
    , London: Frank Cass, 2000.
     
    Lisa Hill. ‘A Great Leveller: Compulsory Voting as a Democratic Innovation’, in Elections Full Free and Fair, Marian Sawer (ed) Federation Press, Sydney:
    2001.

     
    Articles in fully refereed journals.

    Lisa Hill. 2017. '"The Poor Man's Son" and the Corruption of our Moral Sentiments: Commerce, Virtue and Happiness in Adam Smith', Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 15.1. in press.

    Lisa Hill and Serrin Rutledge-Prior, 2016. 'Young People and Intentional Informal Voting in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥', ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Journal of Political Science, 51 (3): 400-417.

    Lisa Hill. 2016. 'Voter Turnout, Equality, Liberty and Representation: Epistemic versus Procedural Democracy', Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 19 (5), in press.

    Lisa Hill. 2015. 'Republican Democracy and Compulsory Voting', Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 18 (6): 652-660.

    Lisa Hill. 2015. 'Political Theory in AJPS: A Review', ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Journal of Political Science, 50 (4): 653-662.

    Lisa Hill, 2015. 'Does Compulsory Voting Violate a Right Not to Vote?', ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Journal of Political Science, 50 (1): 61-72.

    Lisa Hill, 2015. 'Classical Stoicism and the Birth of a Global Ethics: Cosmopolitan Duties in a World of Local Loyalties', Social Alternatives, 34 (1): 14-19.

    Lisa Hill, 2013. 'Deliberative Democracy and Compulsory Voting', Election Law Journal, 12 (4), 454-467.

    Lisa Hill, 2013. ‘Conceptions of Political Corruption in Ancient Athens and Rome’, History of Political Thought, 34 (4), 565-587.
     
    Lisa Hill, 2012. ‘Adam Smith: The Man, the Mind and the Troubled Soul’, The Review of Politics, 74 (2), pp. 307-316.

    G. Evans and L. Hill, 2012. ‘The Electoral and Political Implications of Reserved Seats for Indigenous ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ns’, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Journal of Political Science, 47 (3): 491-505.  

    Lisa Hill. 2012.  ‘Adam Smith on Thumos and Irrational Economic Man’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought,19 (1): 1-22.  

    Lisa Hill and Cornelia Koch. 2011.  ‘The Voting Rights of Incarcerated ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Citizens’, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Journal of Political Science, 42 (6), 2011, pp. 2013-228.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Social Distance and the New Strangership in Adam Smith’, Adam Smith Review, Volume 6, 2011. pp. 166-183.
     
    Lisa Hill. 2010. ‘Public Acceptance of Compulsory Voting: Explaining the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Case’, Representation, 46 (4): 425-438.

    Lisa Hill. 2010.  ‘ On the Justifiability of Compulsory Voting’, British Journal of Political Science, 40 (4): 917-923.  


    Lisa Hill and Kate Alport. 2010. ‘Voting Attitudes and Behaviour Among Remote Aboriginal Peoples’, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Journal of Politics and History, 56 (2), pp. 242-258.  

    Lisa Hill. 2010.  ‘Adam Smith’s Cosmopolitanism: The Expanding Circles of Commercial Strangership’, History of Political Thought, 31 (3), pp. 449-473.  
      
    Sally Young and Lisa Hill. ‘Uncounted Votes: Informal Voting in the House of Representatives as a Marker of Political Exclusion in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥’, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Journal of History and Politics, 55 (1), 2009, pp. 64-79.

    Cornelia Koch and Lisa Hill. ‘The Ballot Behind Bars after Roach: Why Disenfranchise Prisoners?’, Alternative Law Review, 33 (4), 220-224, 2008.

     Lisa Hill and Kate Alport. ‘[Re]connecting ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥’s Politically Excluded: Electronic Pathways to Electoral Inclusion’  International Journal of Electronic Government Research, 3 (4) 2007, 1-19.  

    Lisa Hill and Sally Young. ‘Protest or Error? Informal Voting and Compulsory Voting’, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Journal of Political Science, 42 (3), pp. 515-521, 2007.
     
     Lisa Hill. ‘Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson and Karl Marx on the Division of Labour’, Journal of Classical Sociology, 7(3) 2007, pp. 339-366.
     
    Lisa Hill. ‘Adam Smith and the Theme of Corruption’, Review of Politics, 68 (4) Fall, 2006, pp. 636-662.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Low Voter Turnout in the United States: Is Compulsory Voting a Viable Solution?’ Journal of Theoretical Politics’, 18 (2) 2006, pp. 207-232.

     Jonathon Louth and Lisa Hill. ‘Compulsory Voting in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥: Turnout With and Without It,’, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Review of Public Affairs, (Journal) 6, Number (1), 2005, pp. 25-37.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Further Reflections on the Hidden Theology of Adam Smith’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 11(4), 2004, pp. 629-35.  

    Lisa Hill and Peter McCarthy. ‘On Friendship and Necessitudo in Adam Smith’, History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 17 (4), 2004, pp. 1-16.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Compulsory Voting in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥: A Basis for a ‘Best Practice’ Regime’, Federal Law Review, Vol. 32 (3) 2004, pp. 479-97.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Democratic Deficit in the ACT: Is the Citizen Initiated Referendum a Solution?’, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Journal of Social Issues, 2003, 38 (4) pp. 13-19.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘The Voting Gender Gap: ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥, Britain and the United States’, PolicyOrganisation and Society, 22, (1) 2003, pp. 73-100.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Compulsory Voting: Residual Problems and Potential Solutions’, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Journal of Political Science, 37 (3), 2002, pp. 437-55.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘On the Reasonableness of Compelling Citizens to Vote: The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Case’, Political Studies, 50 (1) 2002, pp. 80-101.
     
    Lisa Hill. ‘The Puzzle of Adam Ferguson’s Conservatism’, Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 2001 (2), pp. 10-15.

      Lisa Hill. ‘ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Democracy and Privileged Parliamentary Speech’, Politics, 21 (2) 2001, pp. 23-34.
     
     Lisa Hill. ‘The First Wave of Feminism: Were the Stoics Feminists?’, History of Political Thought, XXII. (1) 2001, pp. 12-40.

      Lisa Hill. ‘Eighteenth Century Anticipations of a Sociology of Conflict’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 62 (2) 2001, pp. 281-299.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘The Hidden Theology of Adam Smith’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 8 (1), Spring 2001, pp. 1-29.
     
    Lisa Hill. ‘Compulsory Voting, Political Shyness and Welfare Outcomes’, Journal of Sociology, 36 (1), 2000, pp. 30-49.

      Lisa Hill. ‘The Two Republicae of the Roman Stoics’, Citizenship Studies, 4 (1) 2000, pp. 65-79.

      Lisa Hill. ‘Precarious Persons: Disenfranchising ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Prisoners’, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Journal of Social Issues, 35 (3), 2000, pp. 203-213.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Homo Economicus, Different Voices and the Liberal Psyche’, International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 13, (1), Spring, 1999, pp. 21-46.

     Lisa Hill and Peter McCarthy. ‘Hume, Smith and Ferguson on Friendship in Commercial Society’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy’, 2 (4) 1999, pp. 33-49.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘The Republic of Reason and Candour’, Journal of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Studies, Vol. 62, 1999, pp 10-19.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘The Invisible Hand of Adam Ferguson’, The European Legacy, 3, (6), 1998, pp. 42-65.

     Lisa Hill. ‘The Hazardous Era of ‘Common Sense’’, Policy, 14, (3) 1998, pp. 38-41.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘When Pauline Speaks’, Melbourne Journal of Politics: The Reconciliation Issue, Vol. 25, 1998, pp. 85-100.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Pauline Hanson, Free Speech and Reconciliation’, Journal of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Studies, 57, 3, (6) 1998, pp.10-22.

    Lisa Hill. ‘Adam Ferguson and the Paradox of Progress and Decline’, History of Political Thought, 18, (4), Winter, 1997, pp. 677-706.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Anticipations of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Social Thought in the Work of Adam Ferguson’, European Journal of Sociology, 37 (1), 1996, pp. 203-228.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Ferguson and Smith on 'Human Nature', 'Interest' and the Role of Beneficence in Market Society’, Journal of the History of Economic Ideas, 4 (1-2) 1996, pp. 353-399.
     
     Lisa Hill. ‘'The Unreconstructed Republic', ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Journal of Political Science, 30, 1995, pp. 589-594.

      Lisa Hill. ‘Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Republican Debate’, Current Affairs Bulletin, October, 1994, pp.16-24.  

     

     Encyclopedia Articles.

     Lisa Hill. ‘Civil Society Theory: Adam Smith’, International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, edited by Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler, Springer, Publications: New York, 2009.

     Lisa Hill. ‘Civil Society Theory: Adam Ferguson’, International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, edited by Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler, Springer Publications: New York, 2009

     Lisa Hill. ‘Adam Ferguson’, Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Mark Bevir (ed), London: Sage, 2009.  

    Lisa Hill. ‘Compulsory Voting’, The Oxford Companion to ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Politics, B. Galligan and W. Roberts, (eds) , Melbourne: Oxford ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Press, 2007.  


    Lisa Hill. ‘Citizen Initiated Referenda’, The Oxford Companion to ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Politics, B. Galligan and W. Roberts, (eds), Melbourne: Oxford ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Press, 2007.

  • Publications

    RESEARCH CENTRES


    Lisa is an Associate Investigator on the ARC History of Emotions 1100-1800 Centre of Excellence.  The Centre will receive funding over the next 7 years (2011-2017). She is also an Executive Committee and Management Committe member of the Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre.

    Most recently she is a founding member of the Political Theory Association of Australasia. See our page on Facebook!

     

     

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