Only in Australia The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism

cyclops of judicial arrogance ultimately resolved in his‘amotion’(removal) in But the significance of the disaster lay in the a ...

experiment, that in 1777 secresy [sic] was in this case appointed in thefirst instance: by the experience of forty-two years it ...

version for its legislature—the Hare–Clark—a version of which has been used since 1949 to elect Australia’s powerful Senate.^7 I ...

her good friend, Caroline Emily Clark, was a niece of Thomas Rowland Hill. But her principles in the decade she embarked on her ...

from the introduction of PR. In the approach to the 1949 election, the Labor government had a massive majority in the Senate owi ...

the period 1915–31 it prevailed in Alabama under the aegis of the Temperance Union and the Ku Klux Klan. But in Australia it beg ...

But these partisan origins make PV’s endurance puzzling. If it benefited the anti-Labor coalition at the expense of Labor, at le ...

Parliamentary Union (Atkin 1969). Travelling in rural seats to polling booths could be arduous, and potential voters would deman ...

Secretary of Interior—advocated compulsory voting. The rightful emphasis on the Progressivist attraction to compulsory voting pr ...

packet of cigarettes. And how many absentees pay thefine? Sunday news- papers entertain their readers with reports of the ludicr ...

parliament of 2010 one National MP sat on the cross-benches rather than join in coalition with the Liberal Party; National Party ...

Yet there is another explanation why, from 1918, there were two anti-Labor parties when there had been only one before. And that ...

A still closer parallel to the Country Party’s successful deployment of Prop- erty but not Market was in Ireland’s Fianna Fáil. ...

Boothby has been judged ‘a landmark in the development of electoral administration, not only in Australia, but in some ways the ...

8.7 The Myth of Democracy Australia’s electoral idiosyncrasies are often portrayed as a proof of a special Australian commitment ...

What we recognize as real democracy is a harmonizing composition of these three arenas of life. But as each of these wax or wane ...

while Britain suspended them: which was the more democratic? It was a House of Commons unsanctioned by‘perennial’elections that ...

Birrell, R. 1997.‘Guided democracy: the local courts after Eureka’,Royal Historical Society of Victoria Journal, vol. 68, no. 1, ...

Hill, R. J. 1976.‘The CPSU in a Soviet election campaign’,Soviet Studies, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 590–8. Hill, T. W. 1860.Selections ...

Rydon, J. 2001.‘Fiji and the export of electoral systems’,Australian Parliamentary Review, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 44–8. Sawer, M. ( ...