The Making of a Party System
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The Making of a Party System

Minor Parties in the Australian Senate

  1. 249 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Making of a Party System

Minor Parties in the Australian Senate

About this book

Minor parties have come a long way in Australia. From an era where there were no minor parties in the national parliament, they have become crucial players in shaping government policy and the political debate. This book charts the rise of minor parties in the Australian Senate since the end of the Second World War and constructs an analytical framework to explain how they became the powerful actors they are today. It shows that there has been a change in the type of minor party elected. Rather than be created as a result of a split in a major party, newer minor parties have been mobilised by broad social movements with the aim of advancing specific policy agendas. By shedding light on these parties, the book shows how minor parties have impacted the Australian political system and how they look set to remain an important component of governance in the future

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Preliminaries
  3. Chapter 1. Parties and Party Systems: Towards an Australian Senate Party System
  4. Chapter 2. The Senate contest and the first phase: Fragmentary minor parties
  5. Chapter 3. Here come the issue-competitive parties: The NDP
  6. Chapter 4. Issue-based minor party politics: Australia’s green political parties
  7. Chapter 5. Rise and fall: the Australian Democrats, 1984–2007
  8. Chapter 6. Issues-oriented politics of the right: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation
  9. Chapter 7. From Klemzig to Canberra: Family First and religious politics
  10. Chapter 8. The Re-emergence of the DLP
  11. Chapter 9. The 2013 election: Confirming the evolution in the type of minor party elected to the Senate
  12. Chapter 10. Issues, organisation, impact, volatility: Towards a Senate-oriented minor party system
  13. Chapter 11. Conclusion
  14. References
  15. Index
  16. Back cover

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