View Item 

Postmaterialism and the Australian Party System

Access Status
Open access
Authors
Charnock, David
Ellis, Peter
Date
2002
Type
Conference Paper

Metadata
Show full item record
Citation
Charnock, David and Ellis, Peter. 2002. : Postmaterialism and the Australian Party System, 2002 Annual National Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA 50), 2-4 October. Canberra: The Australasian Political Studies Association.
Source Title
Proceeedings of the 2002 Annual National Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA 50)
Source Conference
2002 Annual National Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA 50)
Faculty
Division of Humanities
Faculty of Media, Society and Culture
Faculty of Media, Society and Culture (MSC)
URI
Collection
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 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.