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By Mark Bahnisch on October 20, 2008
William Bowe, aka The Poll Bludger, has an interesting take on the pro-Greens trend apparently evident in recent elections, about which there’s been a bit of talk around the traps. It’s been most evident in the ACT election on the [...]
Posted in By-elections, Federal Elections, Media, NSW Government, Polls, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ACT election, ALP, electoral behaviour, Labor, NSW by-elections, partisan allegiance, political behaviour, political sociology, psephological analysis, Sociology, The Greens, voting intention |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 12, 2008
There’s lots more interesting stuff in this report at Australian Policy Online about two exit polls taken at the time of the 2007 federal election (and the AES), but this might be a relevant thing for Kevin Rudd, Penny Wong [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Industrial Relations, Polls, Sociology | Tagged 2007 federal election, ALP, carbon pollution reduction scheme, Climate change, electoral behaviour, Emissions trading scheme, exit polls, Garnaut Report, Garnaut Review, issues salience, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Penny Wong, Polls, psephology, Rudd government |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 10, 2008
Although aspects of his critique are tentatively sketched by his own admission, Jay Rosen has hit more nails than he’s missed with his analysis of the significance of the Sarah Palin veep selection by the McCain campaign. Rosen’s article is [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ethics, Foreign Elections, Media, Polls, Sociology, USA, Women | Tagged Alaska, american election 2008, Andrew Perrin, barack obama, blogosphere, bridge to nowhere, cultural studies, Culture Wars, Democrats, earmarks, electoral behaviour, Gary Kamiya, George W. Bush, GOP, Jay Rosen, John McCain, Karl Rove, netroots, political blogging, political sociology, political strategy, Polls, Republicans, sarah palin, Sociology, sociology of media, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2008
mute a generation by ~funkadelic on deviantART Image courtesy of Funkadelic at deviantart. Click through and click on full view for a higher res version. Regular LP readers might recall that I’ve been emphasising for some time now research evidence [...]
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Muting a generation
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2008
mute a generation by ~funkadelic on deviantART Image courtesy of Funkadelic at deviantart. Click through and click on full view for a higher res version. Regular LP readers might recall that I’ve been emphasising for some time now research evidence [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ABC tv, blogging and politics, blogosphere, citizenship, civic capacities, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, electoral behaviour, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, new social movements, ngos, online activism, Phillipa Colvin, political analysis, political apathy, political commentary, political disengagement, political engagement, political parties, political sociology, protest movements, punditariat, Q&A, Qanda, Sociology, sociology of culture, sociology of generations, volunteering, Whitlam Institute, youth activism | 18 Responses