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    Postmaterialism and postmodernization in Australian electoral politics

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    Authors
    Charnock, David
    Ellis, Peter
    Date
    2004
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Charnock, David and Ellis, Peter. 2004. Postmaterialism and postmodernization in Australian electoral politics. Electoral Studies. 23 (1): 45-72.
    Source Title
    Electoral Studies
    DOI
    10.1016/s0261-3794(02)00055-0
    ISSN
    02613794
    Faculty
    Faculty of Media, Society and Culture
    School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
    Faculty of Humanities
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5933
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    In this paper we explore recent Australian electoral politics using both Inglehart’s ideas on postmaterialism and also a broader conception of postmodern attitudes. We begin by demonstrating that the widely-used postmaterialism measure based on Inglehart’s four-item question gives completely counterintuitive results for the most recent significant Australian party, the One Nation Party. This appears to support Warwick’s argument that this measure actually reveals pro-democracy propensity. Subsequently, we develop a much broader measure of postmodern attitudes and use this in conjunction with an index of left-right attitudes to explore the positioning of party supporters in the resulting two-dimensional space and the practical consequences of this. Among other things, this demonstrates that a single left-right dimension is inadequate to describe the positioning of minor parties in particular, but that it is overall of more significance in predicting vote than is the postmodern dimension.

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