Postmaterialism and the Australian Party System

In this paper we explore the positioning of Australian political parties at the 2001 federal election using data from the Australian Election Study and discuss some of the strategic implications. We focus on some of the attitudes of Senate voters for the various parties, concentrating on how Ingleha...

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Main Authors: Charnock, David, Ellis, Peter
Format: Conference Paper
Published: The Australasian Political Studies Association 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48197
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description In this paper we explore the positioning of Australian political parties at the 2001 federal election using data from the Australian Election Study and discuss some of the strategic implications. We focus on some of the attitudes of Senate voters for the various parties, concentrating on how Inglehart's postmaterialism measures can be used to supplement more traditional left-right descriptions of the party system. In order to make some assessment of the significance of the electoral context we make some comparisons with the 1998 election and also examine party positioning in relation to other sets of attitudes about potentially salient issues.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-481972017-02-27T14:48:06Z Postmaterialism and the Australian Party System Charnock, David Ellis, Peter 1998 federal election postmaterialism 2001 federal election Inglehart Australian Party System Australian elections In this paper we explore the positioning of Australian political parties at the 2001 federal election using data from the Australian Election Study and discuss some of the strategic implications. We focus on some of the attitudes of Senate voters for the various parties, concentrating on how Inglehart's postmaterialism measures can be used to supplement more traditional left-right descriptions of the party system. In order to make some assessment of the significance of the electoral context we make some comparisons with the 1998 election and also examine party positioning in relation to other sets of attitudes about potentially salient issues. 2002 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48197 The Australasian Political Studies Association fulltext
spellingShingle 1998 federal election
postmaterialism
2001 federal election
Inglehart
Australian Party System
Australian elections
Charnock, David
Ellis, Peter
Postmaterialism and the Australian Party System
title Postmaterialism and the Australian Party System
title_full Postmaterialism and the Australian Party System
title_fullStr Postmaterialism and the Australian Party System
title_full_unstemmed Postmaterialism and the Australian Party System
title_short Postmaterialism and the Australian Party System
title_sort postmaterialism and the australian party system
topic 1998 federal election
postmaterialism
2001 federal election
Inglehart
Australian Party System
Australian elections
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48197