Post-War Changes in the Influence of Social Structure on Australian Voting: The 'Decline of Social Cleavages' Revisited
dc.contributor.author | Charnock, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T14:38:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T14:38:47Z | |
dc.date.created | 2008-11-12T23:36:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Charnock, David. 2005. Post-War Changes in the Influence of Social Structure on Australian Voting: The 'Decline of Social Cleavages' Revisited. Australian Journal of Political Science 40: 343-355. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39998 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/10361140500204017 | |
dc.description.abstract |
Franklin, Mackie and Valen?s 1992 book on Electoral Change drew on evidence taken from a small number of surveys in each included country (including Australia) during the mid-1960s to 1990 to derive some general conclusions about the historical decline of cleavage politics. In this article, I make some methodological improvements and also considerably chronologically extend the analyses for Australia, to cover the whole of the post-war period. The results show that some of the previous conclusions are incorrect and that although there has been a decline in the strength of association between social structural variables and voting for the ALP over the post-war period, the decline has not been a smooth one and predominantly occurred in the earlier part of the period. I also discuss the results in the context of broader international debates about the impact of social changes on voting. | |
dc.publisher | Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group | |
dc.subject | social cleavages | |
dc.subject | Australian federal voting | |
dc.subject | ALP | |
dc.subject | post-war electoral change | |
dc.title | Post-War Changes in the Influence of Social Structure on Australian Voting: The 'Decline of Social Cleavages' Revisited | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dcterms.source.volume | 40 | |
dcterms.source.month | sep | |
dcterms.source.startPage | 343 | |
dcterms.source.endPage | 355 | |
dcterms.source.title | Australian Journal of Political Science | |
curtin.note |
This is an electronic version of an article published in: Charnock, David (2005) Post-War Changes in the Influence of Social Structure on Australian Voting: The 'Decline of Social Cleavages' Revisited, Australian Journal of Political Science 40:343-355. | |
curtin.note |
Australian Journal of Political Science is available online at: | |
curtin.identifier | EPR-3162 | |
curtin.accessStatus | Open access | |
curtin.faculty | Division of Humanities | |
curtin.faculty | Faculty of Media, Society and Culture (MSC) |