Shaun Ratcliff
Biographic Data
| ID | 4372949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaun Ratcliff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaun |
| FAMILY NAME | Ratcliff |
| SIGNATURE | RATCLIFF S |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Studies Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5186-3311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1924 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Does place and connection shape attitudes on policy favouring rural areas? Unpacking the rural-urban divide in Australia
Voiceless: Division, Distrust and Discrimination at the 2023 Voice Referendum
The referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament in Australia resulted in defeat for the Yes case on October 14, 2023, by a margin of 40% to 60%. The referendum proposed a constitutional amendment to establish a representative body made up of Indigenous Australians to advise federal parliament on matters affecting the Indigenous community. Polling suggested that the referendum would defy the poor record of mid‐term …
Chinese Entrepreneurs, the Party-State, and Gender: Women Succeed in Business without the CCP
In this article, we take a gender perspective to explore the relationship between private entrepreneurs’ business success and their Chinese Communist Party (CCP) membership. We theorize that, due to male-dominated CCP-business networks, female entrepreneurs are not able to leverage CCP membership into greater business success. Observable implications of this are that women will experience little or no business advantage from Party membership, whi…
Emotional and financial health during Covid‐19: The role of housework, employment and childcare in Australia and the United States
During the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world witnessed major economic, school, and daycare closures. We sampled respondents in Australia and the US during the height of the first restrictions to understand how the first quarantine structured their emotional strain and financial worry (825 Australians and 835 Americans aged between 18 and 65; May 2-3, 2020; source YouGov). We apply structural equation modeling to demonstrate tha…
Populists or nativist authoritarians? A cross-national analysis of the radical right
Populism is widely considered to be one of the most significant political phenomena of the past decade. Yet for all the scholarly and media attention it receives, how important it is in driving support for populist radical right parties is debatable. Scholars have long theorised that nativism and authoritarianism are likely to be equally if not more important than populism in driving support for populist radical right parties, but the empirical e…
Dark money and opaque politics: Making sense of contributions to Australian political parties
The source, size and recipients of political contributions, and their influence on policy-making, has long been of interest to political scientists, journalists and citizens. There is ever present discussion of 'dark money' and 'pay for play' politics. However, these discussions are often limited by the inconsistent and sometimes incorrect coding of the Australian Electoral Commission financial disclosure data. These data make it difficult to und…
Public opinion and policy responsiveness: The case of same-sex marriage in Australia
This article examines congruence between public opinion and politicians’ positions on same-sex marriage in the Australian House of Representatives from 2012 to 2016. In contrast median voter theorem and other office-motivated frameworks, Australian federal politicians have largely ignored majority opinion, which has been supportive of same-sex marriage for a decade. Using a unique dataset (n = 601,550) of voter preferences collected during the 20…
Interest aggregators, not office chasers: Evidence for party convergence and divergence in Australia
This paper examines whether Australia's major political parties continue to fulfil a representational role. This was often the traditional view of the parties, but has been much criticised in recent decades by scholars arguing they have largely converged, moderating their policies and abandoning their links with civil society. Here I outline a theoretical framework – supported with evidence from four empirical tests – that characterises the major…
The Destruction of Public Records in Dublin
THE DESTRUCTION OF PUBLIC RECORDS IN DUBLIN Get access S. C. Ratcliff S. C. Ratcliff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 2, Issue 4, June 1924, Pages 8–9, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1924.tb01236.x Published: 12 October 2007
Emotional and financial health during Covid‐19: The role of housework, employment and childcare in Australia and the United States
During the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world witnessed major economic, school, and daycare closures. We sampled respondents in Australia and the US during the height of the first restrictions to understand how the first quarantine structured their emotional strain and financial worry (825 Australians and 835 Americans aged between 18 and 65; May 2-3, 2020; source YouGov). We apply structural equation modeling to demonstrate tha…
Public opinion and policy responsiveness: The case of same-sex marriage in Australia
This article examines congruence between public opinion and politicians’ positions on same-sex marriage in the Australian House of Representatives from 2012 to 2016. In contrast median voter theorem and other office-motivated frameworks, Australian federal politicians have largely ignored majority opinion, which has been supportive of same-sex marriage for a decade. Using a unique dataset (n = 601,550) of voter preferences collected during the 20…
Populists or nativist authoritarians? A cross-national analysis of the radical right
Populism is widely considered to be one of the most significant political phenomena of the past decade. Yet for all the scholarly and media attention it receives, how important it is in driving support for populist radical right parties is debatable. Scholars have long theorised that nativism and authoritarianism are likely to be equally if not more important than populism in driving support for populist radical right parties, but the empirical e…
Dark money and opaque politics: Making sense of contributions to Australian political parties
The source, size and recipients of political contributions, and their influence on policy-making, has long been of interest to political scientists, journalists and citizens. There is ever present discussion of 'dark money' and 'pay for play' politics. However, these discussions are often limited by the inconsistent and sometimes incorrect coding of the Australian Electoral Commission financial disclosure data. These data make it difficult to und…
Interest aggregators, not office chasers: Evidence for party convergence and divergence in Australia
This paper examines whether Australia's major political parties continue to fulfil a representational role. This was often the traditional view of the parties, but has been much criticised in recent decades by scholars arguing they have largely converged, moderating their policies and abandoning their links with civil society. Here I outline a theoretical framework – supported with evidence from four empirical tests – that characterises the major…
The Destruction of Public Records in Dublin
THE DESTRUCTION OF PUBLIC RECORDS IN DUBLIN Get access S. C. Ratcliff S. C. Ratcliff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 2, Issue 4, June 1924, Pages 8–9, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1924.tb01236.x Published: 12 October 2007
Interest aggregators, not office chasers: Evidence for party convergence and divergence in Australia
This paper examines whether Australia's major political parties continue to fulfil a representational role. This was often the traditional view of the parties, but has been much criticised in recent decades by scholars arguing they have largely converged, moderating their policies and abandoning their links with civil society. Here I outline a theoretical framework – supported with evidence from four empirical tests – that characterises the major…
Public opinion and policy responsiveness: The case of same-sex marriage in Australia
This article examines congruence between public opinion and politicians’ positions on same-sex marriage in the Australian House of Representatives from 2012 to 2016. In contrast median voter theorem and other office-motivated frameworks, Australian federal politicians have largely ignored majority opinion, which has been supportive of same-sex marriage for a decade. Using a unique dataset (n = 601,550) of voter preferences collected during the 20…
Emotional and financial health during Covid‐19: The role of housework, employment and childcare in Australia and the United States
During the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world witnessed major economic, school, and daycare closures. We sampled respondents in Australia and the US during the height of the first restrictions to understand how the first quarantine structured their emotional strain and financial worry (825 Australians and 835 Americans aged between 18 and 65; May 2-3, 2020; source YouGov). We apply structural equation modeling to demonstrate tha…
Populists or nativist authoritarians? A cross-national analysis of the radical right
Populism is widely considered to be one of the most significant political phenomena of the past decade. Yet for all the scholarly and media attention it receives, how important it is in driving support for populist radical right parties is debatable. Scholars have long theorised that nativism and authoritarianism are likely to be equally if not more important than populism in driving support for populist radical right parties, but the empirical e…
Dark money and opaque politics: Making sense of contributions to Australian political parties
The source, size and recipients of political contributions, and their influence on policy-making, has long been of interest to political scientists, journalists and citizens. There is ever present discussion of 'dark money' and 'pay for play' politics. However, these discussions are often limited by the inconsistent and sometimes incorrect coding of the Australian Electoral Commission financial disclosure data. These data make it difficult to und…
Chinese Entrepreneurs, the Party-State, and Gender: Women Succeed in Business without the CCP
In this article, we take a gender perspective to explore the relationship between private entrepreneurs’ business success and their Chinese Communist Party (CCP) membership. We theorize that, due to male-dominated CCP-business networks, female entrepreneurs are not able to leverage CCP membership into greater business success. Observable implications of this are that women will experience little or no business advantage from Party membership, whi…
Does place and connection shape attitudes on policy favouring rural areas? Unpacking the rural-urban divide in Australia
Voiceless: Division, Distrust and Discrimination at the 2023 Voice Referendum
The referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament in Australia resulted in defeat for the Yes case on October 14, 2023, by a margin of 40% to 60%. The referendum proposed a constitutional amendment to establish a representative body made up of Indigenous Australians to advise federal parliament on matters affecting the Indigenous community. Polling suggested that the referendum would defy the poor record of mid‐term …
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