Add to ORKGDistinctive aspects of Australian democracy-high levels of participation, aggregative voting systems, and a utilitarian preference for government to play the role of both rulemaker and arbiter-are rooted in the institutional configuration of Australian politics. This essay argues that Australia’s unique combination of majoritarian and proportional preferential electoral models has seen the emergence of a political system which, for the most part, has balanced the need for strong government in the lower House of Representatives with broader representation in the Senate. Preferential voting also has tended to push Australian politics toward the center, avoiding the polarization found in comparable democracies such as the United States. As a r...
Representative democracy presumes competitive elections at which voters have a choice of candidates....
Norman Abjorensen runs a tape-measure over the nation’s democratic institutions and practices. A CE...
The ANU\u27s Brendan McCaffrie discusses a way of removing partisan bias from the formulation of Aus...
In the pantheon of representative democracy, Australia has its name stamped on many of the major adv...
A healthy democracy relies on a healthy electoral system. Are the ways we run elections and politica...
This paper reviews the near-century of Parliamentary development of the Commonwealth electoral syste...
Australia is often characterized as “a democratic laboratory,” where a wide variety of electoral sys...
This research report surveys the operation of three types of voting system – first past the post, pr...
Australia has a proud history of being an international leader in electoral administration, and Aust...
This book assesses Australian electoral reforms of the past 30 years using personal interview data ...
This paper explores how the struggle between the political rights of property and the political righ...
Political parties are an important, indeed almost ubiquitous, feature of liberal-democracy systems o...
With the granting of the franchise to white men and women in 1902, Australia became one of the first...
We speak often of 'representative democracy' and we tend to regard it as the dominant form of govern...
It is desirable for a constitution, as a power-limiting device, to possess significant rigidity or, ...
Representative democracy presumes competitive elections at which voters have a choice of candidates....
Norman Abjorensen runs a tape-measure over the nation’s democratic institutions and practices. A CE...
The ANU\u27s Brendan McCaffrie discusses a way of removing partisan bias from the formulation of Aus...
In the pantheon of representative democracy, Australia has its name stamped on many of the major adv...
A healthy democracy relies on a healthy electoral system. Are the ways we run elections and politica...
This paper reviews the near-century of Parliamentary development of the Commonwealth electoral syste...
Australia is often characterized as “a democratic laboratory,” where a wide variety of electoral sys...
This research report surveys the operation of three types of voting system – first past the post, pr...
Australia has a proud history of being an international leader in electoral administration, and Aust...
This book assesses Australian electoral reforms of the past 30 years using personal interview data ...
This paper explores how the struggle between the political rights of property and the political righ...
Political parties are an important, indeed almost ubiquitous, feature of liberal-democracy systems o...
With the granting of the franchise to white men and women in 1902, Australia became one of the first...
We speak often of 'representative democracy' and we tend to regard it as the dominant form of govern...
It is desirable for a constitution, as a power-limiting device, to possess significant rigidity or, ...
Representative democracy presumes competitive elections at which voters have a choice of candidates....
Norman Abjorensen runs a tape-measure over the nation’s democratic institutions and practices. A CE...
The ANU\u27s Brendan McCaffrie discusses a way of removing partisan bias from the formulation of Aus...