Political Efficacy, Involvement and Trust: Testing for Regional Political Culture in Australia

Denemark, David; Sharman, Campbell

doi:10.1080/10361146.1994.11733428

Cited by 11 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 13 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Even among that small sub-set, we can distinguish between those who attribute diversity to the existence of state and sub-state levels of government and those who attribute diversity to demographic variation, including that caused by patterns of migration. For the former, sub-state units of government, such as provinces Elkins, 1974, 1980), Länder (Assion, 1987;Ulram, 1990Ulram, , 1992Blancke and Tiemann, 1993;Yoder, 1998;Plasser and Ulram, 2002) or other sub-state communities (Denemark and Sharman, 1994;Dickson, 1996;Miller et al, 1996;Billiet et al, 2006;Henderson, 2007), have the capacity to inculcate in their populations distinct political norms. Within a single state, then, we might find that the attitudes and behaviours of residents in two neighbouring sub-state units appear dissimilar, even though they may share demographic or economic characteristics that might otherwise produce similar outlooks.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

‘Small Worlds’ as Predictors of General Political Attitudes

Henderson

2010

Regional & Federal Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In a federal system, do citizens have varying amounts of trust and efficacy for different levels of government? Individuals might, for example, feel a greater sense of efficacy for the more proximate level. This contribution examines 40 years of Canadian Election Study (CES) data to determine whether and how citizens distinguish between levels of government to determine which level of government is deemed more important and whether one is more likely to prompt higher levels of trust and efficacy. After establishing that individuals do indeed hold varying levels of trust and efficacy for provincial and federal governments, the analysis takes advantage of innovative questions in the 1984 CES and makes clear that state and sub-state trust and efficacy exert an independent impact on general political attitudes.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

‘Small Worlds’ as Predictors of General Political Attitudes

Henderson

2010

Regional & Federal Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…While both these types of data continue to be important to understanding federal political culture, they have limitations. Australia's conditions demonstrate that key State differences in political values may be more likely to have institutional explanations, than simply sociological ones (Denemark & Sharman 1994). As noted by Gray at the outset, local and regional identification can also be expected in non-federal systems.…”

Section: Federal Political Culturementioning

confidence: 98%

“…As asked to date, these questions also mix institutional, sociological and behavioural factors in their investigation of 'federal culture' (cf Denemark & Sharman 1994). Importantly, each attribute can also involve strong relationships with other political concepts.…”

Section: Federal Political Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

From Intuition to Reality: Measuring Federal Political Culture in Australia

Brown

2012

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Federalism is associated with a range of political values, but their institutionalisation in practice varies significantly. This article uses a new empirical approach to measuring "federal political culture" through the Australian Constitutional Values Survey, to explore this gap between theory and reality. It presents analysis by gender to demonstrate the approach, highlighting the importance of resolving the mix of theory and practice needed to understand contemporary preferences in institutional design. Overall, Australians were shown to be predominantly federalist in their values. However, women were on average somewhat stronger federalists than men, being stronger supporters of decentralism and legal diversity, while also being somewhat less likely than men to consider that Australia's present system delivers adequately on these values. The findings contribute to federal reform debates.

show abstract

“…There has been an ongoing interest amongst Australian social researchers for over twenty years in economic, political and cultural differences between the states (Anderson and Western 1970;Berry 1969;Denemark and Sharman 1994;Holmes and Sharman 1977;Kelley and Bean 1988). Within this little tradition, a substantive area of investigation has been state differences in victimisation (Biles 1982, Mukherjee 1981.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%