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Title: One Nation's electoral support : where does it come from, what makes it different, and how does it fit?
Related: Australian journal of politics and history, Vol. 47, Issue 2 (2001), p.159-191
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8497.00226
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 2001
Author/Creator: Goot, Murray
Author/Creator: Watson, Ian
Description: This paper does three things. First, it offers a critique of the academic literature on the One Nation vote, focusing on the limitations of the work of political geographers and the methodological shortcomings of survey researchers. Second, it re-examines data from the 1998 Australian Election Study in order to explore the demographic and attitudinal forces that both drove the One Nation vote and distinguished it from the votes secured by the Labor Party, the Liberal and National parties and the Australian Democrats; this highlights the importance of gender, geography and class, of political alienation and of attitudes to Aborigines and immigration. Third, it suggests that the basis of One Nation's mobilisation did not lie in concerns about economic insecurity so much as in opposition to ‘new class’ values, particularly around race. In doing so, it challenges common understandings of the Party's constituency and of its distinctiveness.
Description: 33 page(s)
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Politics and International Relations

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