Class and voting in the 1996 Australian federal election

Charnock, David

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“…This is consistent with the finding in Charnock (1997b) that work-related factors remained important in voting at the 1996 election, despite conventional measures of occupational class showing only limited association with voting.…”

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Postmaterialism and postmodernization in Australian electoral politics

Charnock

Ellis

2004

Electoral Studies

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; he would like to thank those institutions for their hospitality. We also thank Kay Fisher and the journal's reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts. The work was partly supported by Australian Research Council Large Grant A79938063. . Postmaterialism and Postmodernization in Australian electoral politics, Electoral Studies, 23(1):45-72. Postmaterialism and Postmodernization in Australian electoral politics AbstractIn 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 fouritem 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 twodimensional 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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Postmaterialism and postmodernization in Australian electoral politics

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2004

Electoral Studies

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“…A second strand of the Australian literature has looked at the relationship between identities and voting behavior. Substantial literatures exist on the relationship between self-identified class and electoral behavior (McAllister, 1992;Goot, 1994;Charnock, 1997); post-materialist values and voting (Gow, 1990;Western and Tranter, 2001); as well as the relationship between attitudes to leadership and voting (Marks 1993). Yet because partisan identification and voting behavior are as much identities as class, post-materialist values, and attitudes towards political leaders, it is difficult to see how one might unpack the causal relationship.…”

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Economic Voting and Electoral Behavior: How Do Individual, Local, and National Factors Affect the Partisan Choice?

Leigh

2005

Economics & Politics

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What impact do income and other demographic factors have on a voter's partisan choice? Using post‐election surveys of 14,000 voters in 10 Australian elections between 1966 and 2001, I explore the impact that individual, local, and national factors have on voters' decisions. In these 10 elections, the poor, foreign‐born, younger voters, voters born since 1950, men, and those who are unmarried are more likely to be left‐wing. Over the past 35 years, the partisan gap between men and women has closed, but the partisan gap has widened on three dimensions: between young and old; between rich and poor; and between native‐born and foreign‐born. At a neighborhood level, I find that, controlling for a respondent's own characteristics, and instrumenting for neighborhood characteristics, voters who live in richer neighborhoods are more likely to be right‐wing, while those in more ethnically diverse or unequal neighborhoods are more likely to be left‐wing. Controlling for incumbency, macroeconomic factors do not seem to affect partisan preferences – Australian voters apparently regard both major parties as equally capable of governing in booms and busts.

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“…10. Charnock (1997) finds that education had a slight, but not statistically significant, association with Labor vote in 1996.…”

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“…13. Charnock (1997) provides a detailed analysis of the influences on voting choice in 1996. BIBLIOGRAPHY…”

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Class voting, social change, and the left in Australia, 1943–96¹

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Western

1999

British Journal of Sociology

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The relationship between class and voting choices has been the subject of controversy in recent years, especially in connection with the apparent decline of the traditional left. This paper examines class voting in Australia, focusing on three major issues: (1) changes in the overall strength of class voting (2) realignment, or changes in the relative political positions of the classes (3) the connection between the strength of class voting and support for Labor. It finds that (1) there is a decline in 'general' class voting (2) much of this decline involves a realignment of certain middle class groups, but there is no support for the popular idea that class alignments have become more complex (3) there is no connection between the strength of class voting and Labor performance. Our results cast doubt on accounts that regard the electoral difficulties of left parties as a symptom of the decline of class.

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Class and voting in the 1996 Australian federal election

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Postmaterialism and postmodernization in Australian electoral politics

Postmaterialism and postmodernization in Australian electoral politics

Economic Voting and Electoral Behavior: How Do Individual, Local, and National Factors Affect the Partisan Choice?

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