Alan Fraser "Foo" Davies (25 September 1924 – 18 August 1987) was an Australian
political scientist and author, known for his quip that Australians have a "talent for bureaucracy" and for his work on the relation between bureaucracy and public service. A professor at the
University of Melbourne, Davies wrote a series of highly influential books on Australian politics.
Notable works
* ''Australian Democracy: An Introduction to the Political System'' (1958)
* ''A Sunday Kind of Love'' (1961), a collection of short stories
* ''Australian Society: A Sociological Introduction'' (1965), edited with
Sol Encel
Solomon "Sol" Encel (3 March 192523 July 2010) was a noted Jewish-Australian academic, sociologist and political scientist.Reich, Chanan. "Australia and the" Yom Kippur" War of 1973." ''Australian Journal of Jewish Studies'' 26 (2012): 10-30.
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* ''Private Politics: A Study of Five Political Outlooks'' (1966)
* ''Images of Class: An Australian Study'' (1967)
* ''Essays in Political Sociology'' (1972).
* ''Skills, Outlooks, and Passions: A Psychoanalytic Contribution to the Study of Politics'' (1980)
* ''The Human Element: Three Essays in Political Psychology'' (1988)
[Reviews of ''The Human Element'':
Fred I. Greenstein (1989), ''The American Political Science Review'', 83(2): 611–613, , .
Helen Irving (1990), ''Thesis Eleven'', 27(1): 246–250, .
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References
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1924 births
1987 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Melbourne
Australian political scientists
Writers from Victoria (state)
20th-century Australian writers
20th-century political scientists