The Professionals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Professionals write by Stephen Mills. This book was released on 2014-07-05. The Professionals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stephen Mills has conducted on-the-record interviews with every living national campaign director of the two major political parties. Their experience covers the 15 federal election campaigns from 1974 to the present day. Built around twelve critical moments in Australian electoral history, The Professionals traces the transformation of the party official from administrative servant to highly influential, professional campaign manager, and the election campaign from the pre-television days to the contemporary world of social media, focus groups and million-dollar budgets. He shows how Australia’s political parties went from mass-membership organisations – which provided opportunities for grassroots participation – to top-down managerial enterprises. Internal control of the parties has shifted to a new centre of power: the Head Office. The Professionals provides a fascinating new perspective on the contours of Australian political history and shows political parties as they have rarely been seen before – from the inside.
Political Parties and Campaigning in Australia
Political Parties and Campaigning in Australia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Parties and Campaigning in Australia write by Glenn Kefford. This book was released on 2021-02-15. Political Parties and Campaigning in Australia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Big data and microtargeting steal the headlines about campaigning. But how important are they really to the way that political parties campaign? This book provides a fine-grained account of the campaign practices of three Australian political parties. It explores how prevalent data-driven campaigning is, introduces an original theoretical framework to understand these practices, and demonstrates that there is a disconnect between what Australian voters think about these issues and the way that parties campaign in the 21st century. Drawing on 161 interviews, participant observation and original survey data, it shows that the reality of contemporary campaigning is often different to what we are led to believe.
Party Rules?
Party Rules? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Party Rules? write by Anika Gauja. This book was released on 2016-10-07. Party Rules? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Trust in political parties has never been lower, but we have more and more of them, to the point where voters need magnifying sheets to read ballot papers. What is the relationship between party regulation and the nature of our democracy? How is it that parties have been able to gather so many public resources yet with so little scrutiny of their affairs? This is the first book on party regulation in Australia. It covers a wide range of issues, from party donations to candidate selection, from expectations of parties in a representative democracy to the reluctance to regulate and the role of the courts where legislators fear to tread. ‘The regulation of political parties is one of the most important, but unexplored areas of Australian electoral policy. This important book fills that gap in providing a stimulating and insightful analysis of the pitfalls and potential solutions in this area.’ — Professor George Williams AO
Confusion
Confusion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confusion write by Nicholas Dyrenfurth. This book was released on 2009. Confusion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. CONFUSION revisits the seminal moment when liberals threw in their lot with the conservatives. In CONFUSION, some of Australia's foremost political historians including Marian Quartly and Stuart Macintyre revisit the seminal moment when liberals threw in their lot with the conservatives. In May 1909, Alfred Deakin, the radical liberal doyen, struck an agreement for a controversial 'fusion' with the anti-Labor factions, with the new grouping later adopting the name 'Liberal Party'. After a heated campaign, Labor won the 1910 election, forming the first majority government in the history of the Commonwealth. How had this occurred? For most of the previous decade Labor and Deakin had been allies. Was the anti-Labor alliance the inevitable outcome of middle-class men rallying against the growing electoral might of the workers' party? What were the long-term consequences for both sides of politics? With Labor in power federally and in all but one state, the non-Labor side of politics has been plunged into a period of introspection about its coalition arrangements, and about the legitimate traditions of Australian liberalism. Can the current Liberals learn from the events of a century ago?
Political Parties in Transition?
Political Parties in Transition? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Parties in Transition? write by Ian Marsh. This book was released on 2006. Political Parties in Transition? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Australian politics have been dominated for nearly a century by two more or less continuous political groupings, Labor and the Liberal- National Coalition. But in recent decades Australians have embraced a new range of issues: gender, the environment, indigenous rights while party membership has collapsed.
