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    The Structure of the Australian Party System and its Strategic Consequences

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    Authors
    Charnock, David
    Ellis, Peter
    Date
    2003
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Charnock, David and Ellis, Peter. 2003. The Structure of the Australian Party System and its Strategic Consequences. The Australian Journal of Political Science 38 (3): 423-443.
    Source Title
    The Australian Journal of Political Science
    DOI
    10.1080/1036114032000133976
    Faculty
    Division of Humanities
    Faculty of Media, Society and Culture (MSC)
    Remarks

    This is an electronic version of an article published in: Charnock, David and Ellis, Peter (2003) The Structure of the Australian Party System and its Strategic Consequences, The Australian Journal of Political Science 38(3):423-443.

    The Australian Journal of Political Science is available online at: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1080/1036114032000133976

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39697
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    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 and a measure of postmodern attitudes can be used to supplement more traditional left-right descriptions of the party system. We find that descriptions based on a single left-right dimension are inadequate but that attitudes on this dimension and on a postmaterialism or postmodernism dimension are correlated, thus creating constraints for parties. We use comparisons with the 1998 election to assess the stability of the structure and the significance of the electoral context, and generally find that the structure was stable between the two elections.

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