Glenn Kefford
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4372984 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Glenn Kefford |
| NOMBRES | Glenn |
| APELLIDO | Kefford |
| FIRMA | KEFFORD G |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6733-3323 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Voices from the Frontline
Homelessness is a significant issue in Australia, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who are disproportionally affected compared to non-Indigenous Australians. In this article, we present new findings into the barriers and enablers of housing stability for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Brisbane and Logan areas of Queensland. The aim of the study was to document workers perceptions of barriers and …
Nativism, civic nationalism and the malleability of voter attitudes
Nativism is one of the defining phenomena of the contemporary era. Yet, we know little about how malleable citizen attitudes associated with nativism and nationalism are to priming effects when media frames which deal with key issues such as immigration are introduced. In this article, we present the findings from a survey experiment fielded to a nationally representative sample of voters in Australia in May 2019. In it, we explore whether the at…
Data-driven campaigning and democratic disruption
Data-driven campaigning has become one of the key foci for academic and non-academic audiences interested in political communication. Widely seen to have transformed political practice, it is often argued that data-driven campaigning is a force of significant democratic disruption because it contributes to a fragmentation of political discourse, undermines prevailing systems of electoral accountability and subverts ‘free’ and ‘fair’ elections. In…
Populist attitudes in Australia
The study of populist attitudes is a burgeoning area of scholarship. While the manner in which populism is measured and the concepts underpinning it are continuously updated, much work remains. In this article we consider the way populist attitudes are associated with key issues in Australian politics and the way these issues shape voting behaviour. We demonstrate that populist attitudes are associated with dissatisfaction with the functioning of…
Populist Attitudes
The study of populist attitudes has thus far drawn heavily on ideational definitions of populism, focussing almost exclusively on attitudes related to dimensions such as people-centredness and anti-elitism. However, these accounts have largely ignored other approaches to populism, especially the discursive-performative school which see populism as something that is communicated and done by political actors. We argue that when studying populist at…
The digital ecosystem
Since at least the 1980s, scholars have highlighted parties’ reliance on external actors, with Panebianco’s ‘electoral–professional’ party model spotlighting the increasing role of professionals in supporting party activities and campaigns. Over successive decades, our understanding of the role of external actors, and particularly consultants, has grown. As parties have begun to embrace digital tools and technologies, however, it has become appar…
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…
Minority Party Government and Independent MPs
Minority government is becoming more common. With support declining for traditional parties and increasing for anti-establishment movements, government formation is becoming increasingly difficult in many jurisdictions. While minority government has been the subject of much normative debate, one type of minority arrangement that has not attracted much attention is that involving independent parliamentarians. Government in most countries tends to …
Inside the personal party
Scholars in recent decades have discussed the emergence of a new leader-dominated party type, variously described as ‘personal’, ‘personalistic’ and ‘personalist’. However, there has been no original comparative research examining whether (and how) such parties resemble one another organizationally and whether they constitute a distinct organizational type. This article does so by comparing the parties of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and Clive Palm…
Digital Media, Ground Wars and Party Organisation
Journal Article Digital Media, Ground Wars and Party Organisation: Does Stratarchy Explain How Parties Organise Election Campaigns? Get access Glenn Kefford Glenn Kefford Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Correspondence: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6733-3323 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affair…
Rethinking small political parties
It is frequently suggested that micro parties are opportunist organisations out to game the system. These parties are regularly compared with supposed minor parties. There are two problems with this approach. First, attempts to operationalise micro party have been ad hoc. Second, comparisons between micro and minor parties are erroneous as a party type is being compared with a classification based on the relevance of parties in the party system. …
Agency, institutional stretch and structural adjustment
This article examines the case study of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from December 2006 to October 2013. During this period the party fought three federal elections. In 2007 they won government after 11 years in opposition. In 2010 they were required to form a minority government to stay in power and in 2013 they were comprehensively defeated. Beneath the surface though, party leaders were able to exercise agency to stretch their influence be…
Ballots and billions
Founded and led by the billionaire businessman, Clive Palmer, the Palmer United Party (PUP) achieved what was arguably the best debut result of recent decades at the 2013 Australian federal election. This article examines PUP's ideology, organisation and campaigning strategies along with the implications of its experiences to date for Australian party politics. Based on an analysis of original party documents, policies, media communications and s…
The Presidentialisation of Australian Politics? Kevin Rudd's Leadership of the Australian Labor Party
The presidentialisation debate centres on the question of whether contemporary political leaders in parliamentary systems are more powerful than their predecessors. This article applies the presidentialisation thesis of Poguntke and Webb (2005) to the period in which Kevin Rudd led the federal parliamentary Labor Party in Australia. Their model identifies three distinct faces of presidentialisation: the executive face, the party face and the elec…
Bridging the information gap
This article analyses the results of the first exclusive survey of politics andinternational relations PhD students in Australia. The survey was completed by186 students from 22 universities. Students were asked 54 questions coveringfive areas: candidate choices, degree structure, research interests, workloadpressures and the role of the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA).Our findings indicate that students base their choice of insti…
A Rejoinder to Dowding
I would like to thank Professor Keith Dowding for responding to my article (Kefford 2013) and the AJPS for providing space for this rejoinder. In three recent articles, Dowding (2012, 2013a, 2013b
Data-driven campaigning and democratic disruption
Data-driven campaigning has become one of the key foci for academic and non-academic audiences interested in political communication. Widely seen to have transformed political practice, it is often argued that data-driven campaigning is a force of significant democratic disruption because it contributes to a fragmentation of political discourse, undermines prevailing systems of electoral accountability and subverts ‘free’ and ‘fair’ elections. In…
Populist Attitudes
The study of populist attitudes has thus far drawn heavily on ideational definitions of populism, focussing almost exclusively on attitudes related to dimensions such as people-centredness and anti-elitism. However, these accounts have largely ignored other approaches to populism, especially the discursive-performative school which see populism as something that is communicated and done by political actors. We argue that when studying populist at…
The digital ecosystem
Since at least the 1980s, scholars have highlighted parties’ reliance on external actors, with Panebianco’s ‘electoral–professional’ party model spotlighting the increasing role of professionals in supporting party activities and campaigns. Over successive decades, our understanding of the role of external actors, and particularly consultants, has grown. As parties have begun to embrace digital tools and technologies, however, it has become appar…
Inside the personal party
Scholars in recent decades have discussed the emergence of a new leader-dominated party type, variously described as ‘personal’, ‘personalistic’ and ‘personalist’. However, there has been no original comparative research examining whether (and how) such parties resemble one another organizationally and whether they constitute a distinct organizational type. This article does so by comparing the parties of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and Clive Palm…
The Presidentialisation of Australian Politics? Kevin Rudd's Leadership of the Australian Labor Party
The presidentialisation debate centres on the question of whether contemporary political leaders in parliamentary systems are more powerful than their predecessors. This article applies the presidentialisation thesis of Poguntke and Webb (2005) to the period in which Kevin Rudd led the federal parliamentary Labor Party in Australia. Their model identifies three distinct faces of presidentialisation: the executive face, the party face and the elec…
Digital Media, Ground Wars and Party Organisation
Journal Article Digital Media, Ground Wars and Party Organisation: Does Stratarchy Explain How Parties Organise Election Campaigns? Get access Glenn Kefford Glenn Kefford Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Correspondence: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6733-3323 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affair…
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…
Minority Party Government and Independent MPs
Minority government is becoming more common. With support declining for traditional parties and increasing for anti-establishment movements, government formation is becoming increasingly difficult in many jurisdictions. While minority government has been the subject of much normative debate, one type of minority arrangement that has not attracted much attention is that involving independent parliamentarians. Government in most countries tends to …
Bridging the information gap
This article analyses the results of the first exclusive survey of politics andinternational relations PhD students in Australia. The survey was completed by186 students from 22 universities. Students were asked 54 questions coveringfive areas: candidate choices, degree structure, research interests, workloadpressures and the role of the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA).Our findings indicate that students base their choice of insti…
Ballots and billions
Founded and led by the billionaire businessman, Clive Palmer, the Palmer United Party (PUP) achieved what was arguably the best debut result of recent decades at the 2013 Australian federal election. This article examines PUP's ideology, organisation and campaigning strategies along with the implications of its experiences to date for Australian party politics. Based on an analysis of original party documents, policies, media communications and s…
Populist attitudes in Australia
The study of populist attitudes is a burgeoning area of scholarship. While the manner in which populism is measured and the concepts underpinning it are continuously updated, much work remains. In this article we consider the way populist attitudes are associated with key issues in Australian politics and the way these issues shape voting behaviour. We demonstrate that populist attitudes are associated with dissatisfaction with the functioning of…
Voices from the Frontline
Homelessness is a significant issue in Australia, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who are disproportionally affected compared to non-Indigenous Australians. In this article, we present new findings into the barriers and enablers of housing stability for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Brisbane and Logan areas of Queensland. The aim of the study was to document workers perceptions of barriers and …
Nativism, civic nationalism and the malleability of voter attitudes
Nativism is one of the defining phenomena of the contemporary era. Yet, we know little about how malleable citizen attitudes associated with nativism and nationalism are to priming effects when media frames which deal with key issues such as immigration are introduced. In this article, we present the findings from a survey experiment fielded to a nationally representative sample of voters in Australia in May 2019. In it, we explore whether the at…
Rethinking small political parties
It is frequently suggested that micro parties are opportunist organisations out to game the system. These parties are regularly compared with supposed minor parties. There are two problems with this approach. First, attempts to operationalise micro party have been ad hoc. Second, comparisons between micro and minor parties are erroneous as a party type is being compared with a classification based on the relevance of parties in the party system. …
Agency, institutional stretch and structural adjustment
This article examines the case study of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from December 2006 to October 2013. During this period the party fought three federal elections. In 2007 they won government after 11 years in opposition. In 2010 they were required to form a minority government to stay in power and in 2013 they were comprehensively defeated. Beneath the surface though, party leaders were able to exercise agency to stretch their influence be…
A Rejoinder to Dowding
I would like to thank Professor Keith Dowding for responding to my article (Kefford 2013) and the AJPS for providing space for this rejoinder. In three recent articles, Dowding (2012, 2013a, 2013b
The Presidentialisation of Australian Politics? Kevin Rudd's Leadership of the Australian Labor Party
The presidentialisation debate centres on the question of whether contemporary political leaders in parliamentary systems are more powerful than their predecessors. This article applies the presidentialisation thesis of Poguntke and Webb (2005) to the period in which Kevin Rudd led the federal parliamentary Labor Party in Australia. Their model identifies three distinct faces of presidentialisation: the executive face, the party face and the elec…
Bridging the information gap
This article analyses the results of the first exclusive survey of politics andinternational relations PhD students in Australia. The survey was completed by186 students from 22 universities. Students were asked 54 questions coveringfive areas: candidate choices, degree structure, research interests, workloadpressures and the role of the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA).Our findings indicate that students base their choice of insti…
A Rejoinder to Dowding
I would like to thank Professor Keith Dowding for responding to my article (Kefford 2013) and the AJPS for providing space for this rejoinder. In three recent articles, Dowding (2012, 2013a, 2013b
Agency, institutional stretch and structural adjustment
This article examines the case study of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from December 2006 to October 2013. During this period the party fought three federal elections. In 2007 they won government after 11 years in opposition. In 2010 they were required to form a minority government to stay in power and in 2013 they were comprehensively defeated. Beneath the surface though, party leaders were able to exercise agency to stretch their influence be…
Ballots and billions
Founded and led by the billionaire businessman, Clive Palmer, the Palmer United Party (PUP) achieved what was arguably the best debut result of recent decades at the 2013 Australian federal election. This article examines PUP's ideology, organisation and campaigning strategies along with the implications of its experiences to date for Australian party politics. Based on an analysis of original party documents, policies, media communications and s…
Rethinking small political parties
It is frequently suggested that micro parties are opportunist organisations out to game the system. These parties are regularly compared with supposed minor parties. There are two problems with this approach. First, attempts to operationalise micro party have been ad hoc. Second, comparisons between micro and minor parties are erroneous as a party type is being compared with a classification based on the relevance of parties in the party system. …
Inside the personal party
Scholars in recent decades have discussed the emergence of a new leader-dominated party type, variously described as ‘personal’, ‘personalistic’ and ‘personalist’. However, there has been no original comparative research examining whether (and how) such parties resemble one another organizationally and whether they constitute a distinct organizational type. This article does so by comparing the parties of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and Clive Palm…
Digital Media, Ground Wars and Party Organisation
Journal Article Digital Media, Ground Wars and Party Organisation: Does Stratarchy Explain How Parties Organise Election Campaigns? Get access Glenn Kefford Glenn Kefford Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Correspondence: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6733-3323 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affair…
Minority Party Government and Independent MPs
Minority government is becoming more common. With support declining for traditional parties and increasing for anti-establishment movements, government formation is becoming increasingly difficult in many jurisdictions. While minority government has been the subject of much normative debate, one type of minority arrangement that has not attracted much attention is that involving independent parliamentarians. Government in most countries tends to …
The digital ecosystem
Since at least the 1980s, scholars have highlighted parties’ reliance on external actors, with Panebianco’s ‘electoral–professional’ party model spotlighting the increasing role of professionals in supporting party activities and campaigns. Over successive decades, our understanding of the role of external actors, and particularly consultants, has grown. As parties have begun to embrace digital tools and technologies, however, it has become appar…
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…
Populist Attitudes
The study of populist attitudes has thus far drawn heavily on ideational definitions of populism, focussing almost exclusively on attitudes related to dimensions such as people-centredness and anti-elitism. However, these accounts have largely ignored other approaches to populism, especially the discursive-performative school which see populism as something that is communicated and done by political actors. We argue that when studying populist at…
Nativism, civic nationalism and the malleability of voter attitudes
Nativism is one of the defining phenomena of the contemporary era. Yet, we know little about how malleable citizen attitudes associated with nativism and nationalism are to priming effects when media frames which deal with key issues such as immigration are introduced. In this article, we present the findings from a survey experiment fielded to a nationally representative sample of voters in Australia in May 2019. In it, we explore whether the at…
Data-driven campaigning and democratic disruption
Data-driven campaigning has become one of the key foci for academic and non-academic audiences interested in political communication. Widely seen to have transformed political practice, it is often argued that data-driven campaigning is a force of significant democratic disruption because it contributes to a fragmentation of political discourse, undermines prevailing systems of electoral accountability and subverts ‘free’ and ‘fair’ elections. In…
Populist attitudes in Australia
The study of populist attitudes is a burgeoning area of scholarship. While the manner in which populism is measured and the concepts underpinning it are continuously updated, much work remains. In this article we consider the way populist attitudes are associated with key issues in Australian politics and the way these issues shape voting behaviour. We demonstrate that populist attitudes are associated with dissatisfaction with the functioning of…
Voices from the Frontline
Homelessness is a significant issue in Australia, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who are disproportionally affected compared to non-Indigenous Australians. In this article, we present new findings into the barriers and enablers of housing stability for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Brisbane and Logan areas of Queensland. The aim of the study was to document workers perceptions of barriers and …
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