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By Kim on September 6, 2010
As we get closer to decision time, I’ve been reflecting on the idea of “stability” that seems key to the rural Independents’ choice or choices. I watched last week’s Q&A on repeat – I turned it off last Monday when [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Politics, Sociology | Tagged David Penberthy, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Independents, Jessica Rudd, John Keane, Kevin Rudd, modernist, partisan de-identification, political science, political sociology, Polls, post industrial politics, post-partisan politics, Q&A, Qanda, stability |
By Kim on August 24, 2010
(Via Open Democracy) Patrick Dunleavy from the LSE has written a post on the decline of the “Westminster model”: For the first time in history, the Australian outcome means that every key ‘Westminster model’ country in the world now has [...]
Posted in Elections, federal election 2010, International | Tagged canada, Duverger's Law, Elections, electoral systems, Federal Election 2010, first past the vote, hung parliament, India, majoritarian government, New Zealand, party systems, plurality, political science, uk, Wesminster system |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 3, 2010
In a lot of the discussion here and elsewhere about the drift of ALP voters to The Greens, there’s an assumption that The Greens represent a purer left alternative to Labor. That assumption might be a tad simplistic, if Tad [...]
Posted in Activism, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, APSA, Australian Greens, Ben Spies-Butcher, Bob Brown, class politics, data, Ethics, ideology, Labor, left, Macquarie University, neoliberalism, overland, Peter Singer, political parties, political science, political sociology, psephology, social democracy, Sociology, Stewart Jackson, Sydney University, Tad Tietze, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 15, 2010
Today’s Essential Research poll might show the reversal in the movement of the polls, which I suspected prompted Tony Abbott’s parental leave thought bubble last week. My view was that Abbott’s speech was a ‘crazy brave’ attempt to shake things [...]
Posted in Parenting, Policy, Politics, Polls, Sociology, Women | Tagged Coalition, Essential Research, Kevin Rudd, leadership, Liberal Party, parental leave, party images, political science, political sociology, polling, possum, public opinion, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 15, 2009
As the Queensland election is buffeted off course by Cyclone Hamish and the oil spill, Lawrence Springborg has enjoyed more success in shaping the political message – Anna Bligh’s sos is being lost in the storm. There’s a conundrum here, [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, campaign launch, Crikey blog, fiscal policy, GFC, John Wanna, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, leaders debate, leadership, LNP, Pineapple Party Time, political communication, political science, public management, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009 |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2009
Late last year, I observed that the final Newspoll of the year was “probably an outlier” (Labor’s 2PP lead was 59-41). I also observed that the pundits and the more excitable members of the political class would nevertheless take it [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, Barnaby Joyce, best PM, economy, Essential Research, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, leadership, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll, political science, Poll Bludger, Polls, press gallery, psephological analysis, punditariat, recession, Rudd government, voting intention |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 14, 2009
I have a review of Matthew Hindman’s sceptical tome over at Inside Story.
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Elections, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged Activism, Australia, book, comparative politics, internet, Matthew Hindman, political science, political sociology, Politics, review, The Myth of Digital Democracy, USA |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 13, 2009
Of late, there’s been something of an upsurge of bad news about the news, prompted probably by the coincidence in the acceleration in the decline of newspaper business models under the pressure of the global financial crisis and the upsurge [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Consumerism, Culture, Markets, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged audiences, Bachratz, Baratz, decline, editors, global financial crisis, Jay Rosen, journalism, Media, media studies, new media, newspapers, non-decision making, non-decisions, pluralism, political science, power, Sociology, sociology of culture |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 7, 2009
As Obama’s liberal supporters wait uneasily for January 20 to find out whether he really will use his post-partisan stance as a sweetener to implement progressive policy, Crooked Timber blogger and political scientist Henry Farrell has published a rather fascinating [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged barack obama, Blogging, blogosphere, deliberative democracy, Glenn Greenwald, Henry Farrell, internet activism, Jurgen Habermas, new media, partisanship, political blogging, political participation, political science, political sociology, public sphere, social media |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 12, 2008
Over at Catallaxy, Jason Soon links to Kerry Miller’s article in Spiked about Clive Hamilton’s influence in the propagation of the idea of the “Clean Feed” web censorship plan. There are some strange alliances around this issue, and Miller, who [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Howardia, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, The Web | Tagged ALP, Australia Institute, Authoritarianism, Catholic right, censorship, Clive Hamilton, Guy Rundle, Indigenous policy, Jason Soon, Jenny Macklin, Julia Gillard, Kerry Miller, Labor, last superpower, liberalism, libertarianism, Lindsay Tanner, no clean feed, Noel Pearson, political philosophy, political science, political sociology, political theory, post-materialism, Religion, Rudd government, social democracy, social policy, Sociology, stephen conroy, Third Way, Tony Abbott, Warren Mundine |
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