Dr Neville Buch
Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
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M.I.C.E.
Management Institute for Contributory Economy
Radical enough to shift the agenda, liberal enough to allow everyone a decent place in the social environment, and conservative enough to preserve the legacy of good value for Contributory Economy
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The Evasion of Answerability: Deconstructing the Consensus Literature on Accountability and the MICE Contributory Corrective
Abstract This essay evaluates the growing divide between the academic consensus on governance accountability and the persistent evasion of answerability by contemporary political actors. While political players routinely treat accountability as a retrospective, upward-reporting administrative chore or a PR exercise in “retail governance,” modern scholarly consensus demonstrates that true accountability is multidimensional, downwardly oriented, and…
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Queensland Governance Reform
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] Abstract This essay investigates the imperatives for transforming public and administrative decision-making, with a primary analytical focus on the historical and contemporary governance of Queensland. It argues that traditional political decision-making in the state has long suffered from a “techné mindset,” characterized by anti-intellectual administrative styles, short-term political expediency, and…
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The Anatomy of Educational Positivism
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Beyond the Identity Mask: Gender, Epistemic Humility, and the Radical Primacy of the Human Condition
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] Abstract “There is little mention of gender in many of my ‘big picture’ publications. Gender is important but that importance is overplayed for ‘big picture’ conclusions. There are two issues here. One is the terribly stupid assumption that we (anyone) “knows” the cognition of the other gender. As a widower…
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Academic Charisma, Personalism, and the Structural Crisis of Higher Education
Abstract This essay presents a comparative analysis of William Clark’s historical-sociological monograph, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University (2006, pp. 3–30), and Dr. Neville Buch’s contemporary philosophical framework of Personalism and Spiral Historiography. Both scholars provide indispensable diagnostic lenses for understanding the structural and intellectual failures of contemporary Australian universities. Clark demonstrates…
