Australian Political facts

McAllister, Ian; Mackerras, Malcolm; Boldiston, Carolyn Brown

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“…Despite rising activism from the late 1960s and legislative success, 26 as late as 1987 only 2 percent of voters rated it as one of the most important issues for the federal government, escalating quickly to 19 percent in 1990, though the more typical level since is around 12 percent. 27 Even with that decline, the environmental movement is large. A 1995 survey found that environment groups had more than twice as many members as political parties (McAllister 1999:26).…”

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Prospects for the Two‐party System in a Pluralising Political World

Norton¹

2002

Aust J Public Adm

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Political commentators argue that the major political parties are in decline. This article sets out evidence for this view: minor parties and independents securing 20 percent of the vote at federal elections, declining strength of voters' party identification, and issue movements playing a large role in setting the political agenda. Possible causes for these trends range from the political, such as policy failure, undermining traditional constituencies, and ignoring public opinion, to sociological forces, such as postmaterialism, individualism and serious disaffection. However, the article argues Labor and the Coalition will be the dominant political players for the foreseeable future. In most lower houses, the electoral system favours the major parties which on balance is a good thing. The major parties have taken concerns of interest groups into account, while balancing these against majority opinion. They simplify choice for an electorate only moderately interested in politics, and can be held accountable in a way minor parties and independents cannot.

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“…10. Polls to 1995 are from McAllister and Boldiston (1997); subsequent data are from the Morgan Poll (accessed November 2001).…”

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Prospects for the Two‐party System in a Pluralising Political World

Norton¹

2002

Aust J Public Adm

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“…With the Vietnam War axial in electors' minds, 5.9 million voters went to the polls on 26 November to elect their twenty-sixth parliament. 89 …”

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Holt, Johnson and the 1966 Federal Election. A Question of Causality

Williams

2001

Aus J of Politics History

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US President Lyndon Johnson's state visit to Australia in October 1966, came at the pinnacle of support for Australia's military involvement in the Vietnam War. Johnson's visit also occurred just weeks before an election for the House of Representatives at which the ruling Liberal‐Country Party Coalition won its eighth successive, and largest victory. The proximity of these events has led many to argue that a causal relationship exists between the two. Advocates of this thesis, however, have failed to support their position with any evidence other than the anecdotal. Contrary to the assertions made by numerous political historians and observers of the period, this paper finds no evidence to support a thesis of causality. This paper argues that the Coalition's landslide victory in 1966 was both a rejection of the tired and lacklustre leadership of Labor's Arthur Calwell and a measure of the electorate's overwhelming support for Holt and his Government's policies of conscription and military involvement in Vietnam.

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“…This would undoubtedly be an important condition for deliberative democrats should they by sympathetic to the compulsion in the first place.11 The first state to introduce compulsory voting wasQueens- land in 1914. Victoria followed in 1926, New South Wales and Tasmania in 1928, Western Australia in 1936, and South Australia in 1942(McAllister et al, 1997.…”

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Deliberative Democracy and Compulsory Voting

Hill¹

2013

Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy

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Deliberative democrats tend to be skeptical about elections as mechanisms for deliberation, and with good reason. But the reality is that elections will likely persist as the primary means by which we make decisions-indirectly-about how we are governed. By contrast, deliberative democracy will likely continue in a supplementary role because of its feasibility problem, something that many pragmatic deliberative democrats now accept. It therefore pays to reflect on what kinds of elections best serve deliberative ideals and sensibilities. Although some deliberative democrats have rejected the idea of compulsory voting, I argue that they should be more open to the idea due to the fact that compulsory voting elections are more inclusive and less subject to distortions of unequal political power than are voluntary ones. They are also better able to reflect the objective interests of voters and to protect the conditions necessary for deliberation to occur.

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Australian Political facts

Cited by 25 publications

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Prospects for the Two‐party System in a Pluralising Political World

Prospects for the Two‐party System in a Pluralising Political World

Holt, Johnson and the 1966 Federal Election. A Question of Causality

Deliberative Democracy and Compulsory Voting

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