Campbell Sharman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 739609 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Campbell Sharman |
| NOMBRES | Campbell |
| APELLIDO | Sharman |
| FIRMA | SHARMAN C |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Western Australia |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 158 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Managing midterm vacancies
This article explores how replacement rules for midterm vacancies affect legislative turnover in the context of majoritarian and proportional electoral systems. The differing electoral rules and replacement procedures for the two chambers of the Australian parliament over more than a century permit an analysis of the complex interplay between institutional rules, party strategy, and patterns of representation between 1901 and 2013. Since 1901, th…
National party structure in parliamentary federations
National parties in the Canadian and Australian parliamentary federations, despite the differences in their federal systems, are dependent for their success in mobilising electoral support on a similar network of local and subnational partisan activity over which they have, at best, only limited control. We find that, over the last 100 years, national parties in both federations have moved through a similar sequence of structural changes, none of…
Limiting Party Representation
Parties are seen as vital for the maintenance of parliamentary government and as necessary intermediaries between voters and legislators; an elected parliamentary chamber not controlled by parties is highly anomalous. This study contrasts the party‐controlled Tasmanian lower house with its Independent‐dominated elected upper house and finds that the major source of constraints on party representation is not a clientelistic style of politics but t…
Federalism and New Party Insurgency in Australia
The multiple forums for electoral competition that characterize a federal system might be expected to provide opportunities for new parties to use regional support as a springboard for success in national elections. Yet, since the 1950s, this has not been the pattern for new parties in the Australian federation; three of the four substantial party insurgencies in this period have had national, protest-based, origins. The exception has been the em…
Western Australia
This article examines the key issues that dominated the campaign agenda in WA at the federal polls in 2007, as well as the outcome of the election in that state. It shows that the swing recorded against the Liberal party in WA was more muted than elsewhere in the federation. It suggests that the failure of the state ALP to rein in the behaviour of some of its high profile members, combined with a strong local economy, served to reduce the resista…
Australian Electoral History and New South Wales Sesquicentennial Studies
From Subjects to Citizens
From Subjects to Citizens: A Hundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada , Pierre Boyer, Linda Cardinal and David Headon, eds., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004, pp. xvi, 328. Citizenship is no longer viewed as a concept restricted to the relationship between an individual and the state. It is now seen as encompassing the series of overlapping identities that define an individual's relationship to a political community. This mean…
Uncontested Seats and the Evolution of Party Competition
Representative democracy presumes competitive elections at which voters have a choice of candidates. This is consistent with the current nature of electoral campaigning, which is system-wide and embraces every opportunity for partisan competition. From this perspective, uncontested seats in parliamentary systems are associated with earlier stages of representative government before modern parties emerged. Yet a survey of Australian state and fede…
A Web-based Database on Australian Government and Politics
Trading party preferences
The Representation of Small Parties and Independents in the Senate
Minor party and independent senators have played a critical role in supporting procedural changes which have given the Australian Senate the ability to play an independent role in the legislative process, and to scrutinise the executive branch effectively. This article examines how this situation has followed from the adoption of proportional representation (PR) for Senate elections since 1949. In looking at the evidence available in 1948, it is …
Swings and Roundabouts? Patterns of Voting for the Australian Labor Party at State and Commonwealth Lower House Elections, 1901-96
Federation for Australia in 1901 was closely followed by the rise of the mass party, an organisation with the potential to reduce the regional differentiation that federalism is designed to protect. Loyalty to party can submerge local issues in nationally based partisanship, and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) may have performed precisely this role, particularly if voters have not differentiated between voting for the ALP at state and Commonweal…
The Captive Republic
Introduction 1. The piratical republic: 1788-1833 2. The stockmen's republic: 1833-1848 3. The last resort: 1848-1856 4. Bunyip aristocracy 5. A Victorian republic 6. Quieta non movere: 1856-1880 7. A white man's republic: 1880-1887 8. Nation and republic: 1887-1891 9. The common weal - republicanism and Federation 10. The Imperial mardi gras: 1901-1963 11. The end of the affair: 1963-1995
Defining Executive Power
Australia is well endowed with constitutions. It has seven, one for the commonwealth and each of the six states, and nine if the documents establishing self‐government for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory are included. This gives plenty of scope for constitutional reform: that is, changing the most important rules which specify how a political community is governed. In the event, public debate over constitutional reform…
Political Efficacy, Involvement and Trust
Data from the 1993 Australian Election Study are used in this article to test whether the Australian states have discernible regional political cultures. This study is based on the approach of Simeon and Elkins (1974) who examined this question in the Canadian context. Responses from the 1993 Australian survey dealing with political efficacy, involvement and trust were analysed in a variety of ways to see if significant state differences emerged.…
Forward to the past
The party system and change of regime
Australia as a compound republic
1990). Australia as a compound republic. Australian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-5
The Party Systems of the Australian States
There has been a longstanding interest in the relationship between the party system in reflecting regional diversity and maintaining the dispersal of power in federations. Given the relative scarcity of information on this question in the Australian federation, this article examines the extent to which the party systems of the Australian states differ by looking at a number of indicators summarizing patterns of partisan support in elections and l…
Leadership Selection Processes and Careers
In a recent analysis of the role and office of premier in Australia, Sharman, Hughes and Tuffin demonstrate that its fundamental characteristics derive ‘not from interaction with the broader political context but from the inherent logic of [the] constitutional system’. In this paper we test this argument by comparing Australian state premiers with their Canadian provincial counterparts. If Sharman et al. are correct about the institutional impera…
Parliamentary Federations and Limited Government
Constitutional arrangements can be said to have a structural logic in the sense that, among other things, they reflect a pattern of assumptions about the nature of government and a polity's particular brand of constitutionalism. It is the argument of this article that there is a basic inconsistency in the constitutional design of parliamentary federations and particularly those which have incorporated British parliamentary traditions. This is ill…
Federalism and Resource Development
The Senate, Small Parties and the Balance of Power
The recent change to the number of senators to be elected from each state will alter the quota for election of senators in a way which will have the consequence of making it harder for minor party and independent candidates to secure representation in the Senate. This, in turn, will have the effect of reducing the likelihood that minor party and independent senators will hold the balance of power in the Senate with a consequent decline in the abi…
New South Wales and Victorian Politics
Ernie Chaples and Helen Nelson (eds), Case Studies in New South Wales Electoral Politics, Sydney, Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney, 1985, pp. 109. $8.50 ($9.50 posted) (paper) Ernie Chaples, Helen Nelson and Ken Turner (eds), The Wran Model: Electoral Politics in New South Wales 1981 and 1984, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985, pp.289. $14.99 (paper) Brian J. Costar and Colin A. Hughes (eds), Labor t…
Survey Grappling With Proteus
Trading party preferences
The Representation of Small Parties and Independents in the Senate
Minor party and independent senators have played a critical role in supporting procedural changes which have given the Australian Senate the ability to play an independent role in the legislative process, and to scrutinise the executive branch effectively. This article examines how this situation has followed from the adoption of proportional representation (PR) for Senate elections since 1949. In looking at the evidence available in 1948, it is …
Australia as a compound republic
1990). Australia as a compound republic. Australian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-5
Uncontested Seats and the Evolution of Party Competition
Representative democracy presumes competitive elections at which voters have a choice of candidates. This is consistent with the current nature of electoral campaigning, which is system-wide and embraces every opportunity for partisan competition. From this perspective, uncontested seats in parliamentary systems are associated with earlier stages of representative government before modern parties emerged. Yet a survey of Australian state and fede…
The Senate, Small Parties and the Balance of Power
The recent change to the number of senators to be elected from each state will alter the quota for election of senators in a way which will have the consequence of making it harder for minor party and independent candidates to secure representation in the Senate. This, in turn, will have the effect of reducing the likelihood that minor party and independent senators will hold the balance of power in the Senate with a consequent decline in the abi…
Political Efficacy, Involvement and Trust
Data from the 1993 Australian Election Study are used in this article to test whether the Australian states have discernible regional political cultures. This study is based on the approach of Simeon and Elkins (1974) who examined this question in the Canadian context. Responses from the 1993 Australian survey dealing with political efficacy, involvement and trust were analysed in a variety of ways to see if significant state differences emerged.…
Parliamentary Federations and Limited Government
Constitutional arrangements can be said to have a structural logic in the sense that, among other things, they reflect a pattern of assumptions about the nature of government and a polity's particular brand of constitutionalism. It is the argument of this article that there is a basic inconsistency in the constitutional design of parliamentary federations and particularly those which have incorporated British parliamentary traditions. This is ill…
Federalism and New Party Insurgency in Australia
The multiple forums for electoral competition that characterize a federal system might be expected to provide opportunities for new parties to use regional support as a springboard for success in national elections. Yet, since the 1950s, this has not been the pattern for new parties in the Australian federation; three of the four substantial party insurgencies in this period have had national, protest-based, origins. The exception has been the em…
The Party Systems of the Australian States
There has been a longstanding interest in the relationship between the party system in reflecting regional diversity and maintaining the dispersal of power in federations. Given the relative scarcity of information on this question in the Australian federation, this article examines the extent to which the party systems of the Australian states differ by looking at a number of indicators summarizing patterns of partisan support in elections and l…
The party system and change of regime
The Australian senate as a states house
From Subjects to Citizens
From Subjects to Citizens: A Hundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada , Pierre Boyer, Linda Cardinal and David Headon, eds., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004, pp. xvi, 328. Citizenship is no longer viewed as a concept restricted to the relationship between an individual and the state. It is now seen as encompassing the series of overlapping identities that define an individual's relationship to a political community. This mean…
The Strange Case of a Provincial Constitution
Provincial constitutional documents have not usually been the subject of scrutiny by those concerned with the governmental process at the provincial level. It has been assumed that the major characteristics of provincial government have been shaped by constitutional rules derived from theBritish North America Actand from the conventions of British-style parliamentary government. A case study of the British ColumbiaConstitution Actshows that such …
Patterns of state voting in national referendums
Swing and the two party preferred vote
Limiting Party Representation
Parties are seen as vital for the maintenance of parliamentary government and as necessary intermediaries between voters and legislators; an elected parliamentary chamber not controlled by parties is highly anomalous. This study contrasts the party‐controlled Tasmanian lower house with its Independent‐dominated elected upper house and finds that the major source of constraints on party representation is not a clientelistic style of politics but t…
Premier's departments
(1982). Premier's departments: Patterns of growth and change. Politics: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 46-58
National party structure in parliamentary federations
National parties in the Canadian and Australian parliamentary federations, despite the differences in their federal systems, are dependent for their success in mobilising electoral support on a similar network of local and subnational partisan activity over which they have, at best, only limited control. We find that, over the last 100 years, national parties in both federations have moved through a similar sequence of structural changes, none of…
The Tasmanian house of assembly elections of 1976
Swings and Roundabouts? Patterns of Voting for the Australian Labor Party at State and Commonwealth Lower House Elections, 1901-96
Federation for Australia in 1901 was closely followed by the rise of the mass party, an organisation with the potential to reduce the regional differentiation that federalism is designed to protect. Loyalty to party can submerge local issues in nationally based partisanship, and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) may have performed precisely this role, particularly if voters have not differentiated between voting for the ALP at state and Commonweal…
Forward to the past
Leadership Selection Processes and Careers
In a recent analysis of the role and office of premier in Australia, Sharman, Hughes and Tuffin demonstrate that its fundamental characteristics derive ‘not from interaction with the broader political context but from the inherent logic of [the] constitutional system’. In this paper we test this argument by comparing Australian state premiers with their Canadian provincial counterparts. If Sharman et al. are correct about the institutional impera…
Managing midterm vacancies
This article explores how replacement rules for midterm vacancies affect legislative turnover in the context of majoritarian and proportional electoral systems. The differing electoral rules and replacement procedures for the two chambers of the Australian parliament over more than a century permit an analysis of the complex interplay between institutional rules, party strategy, and patterns of representation between 1901 and 2013. Since 1901, th…
Defining Executive Power
Australia is well endowed with constitutions. It has seven, one for the commonwealth and each of the six states, and nine if the documents establishing self‐government for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory are included. This gives plenty of scope for constitutional reform: that is, changing the most important rules which specify how a political community is governed. In the event, public debate over constitutional reform…
The Australian senate as a states house
The Tasmanian house of assembly elections of 1976
Swing and the two party preferred vote
The Australian Federal System
Patterns of state voting in national referendums
Premier's departments
(1982). Premier's departments: Patterns of growth and change. Politics: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 46-58
Survey Grappling With Proteus
The Strange Case of a Provincial Constitution
Provincial constitutional documents have not usually been the subject of scrutiny by those concerned with the governmental process at the provincial level. It has been assumed that the major characteristics of provincial government have been shaped by constitutional rules derived from theBritish North America Actand from the conventions of British-style parliamentary government. A case study of the British ColumbiaConstitution Actshows that such …
The Senate, Small Parties and the Balance of Power
The recent change to the number of senators to be elected from each state will alter the quota for election of senators in a way which will have the consequence of making it harder for minor party and independent candidates to secure representation in the Senate. This, in turn, will have the effect of reducing the likelihood that minor party and independent senators will hold the balance of power in the Senate with a consequent decline in the abi…
New South Wales and Victorian Politics
Ernie Chaples and Helen Nelson (eds), Case Studies in New South Wales Electoral Politics, Sydney, Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney, 1985, pp. 109. $8.50 ($9.50 posted) (paper) Ernie Chaples, Helen Nelson and Ken Turner (eds), The Wran Model: Electoral Politics in New South Wales 1981 and 1984, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985, pp.289. $14.99 (paper) Brian J. Costar and Colin A. Hughes (eds), Labor t…
Federalism and Resource Development
Australia as a compound republic
1990). Australia as a compound republic. Australian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-5
The Party Systems of the Australian States
There has been a longstanding interest in the relationship between the party system in reflecting regional diversity and maintaining the dispersal of power in federations. Given the relative scarcity of information on this question in the Australian federation, this article examines the extent to which the party systems of the Australian states differ by looking at a number of indicators summarizing patterns of partisan support in elections and l…
Leadership Selection Processes and Careers
In a recent analysis of the role and office of premier in Australia, Sharman, Hughes and Tuffin demonstrate that its fundamental characteristics derive ‘not from interaction with the broader political context but from the inherent logic of [the] constitutional system’. In this paper we test this argument by comparing Australian state premiers with their Canadian provincial counterparts. If Sharman et al. are correct about the institutional impera…
Parliamentary Federations and Limited Government
Constitutional arrangements can be said to have a structural logic in the sense that, among other things, they reflect a pattern of assumptions about the nature of government and a polity's particular brand of constitutionalism. It is the argument of this article that there is a basic inconsistency in the constitutional design of parliamentary federations and particularly those which have incorporated British parliamentary traditions. This is ill…
Forward to the past
The party system and change of regime
Political Efficacy, Involvement and Trust
Data from the 1993 Australian Election Study are used in this article to test whether the Australian states have discernible regional political cultures. This study is based on the approach of Simeon and Elkins (1974) who examined this question in the Canadian context. Responses from the 1993 Australian survey dealing with political efficacy, involvement and trust were analysed in a variety of ways to see if significant state differences emerged.…
Defining Executive Power
Australia is well endowed with constitutions. It has seven, one for the commonwealth and each of the six states, and nine if the documents establishing self‐government for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory are included. This gives plenty of scope for constitutional reform: that is, changing the most important rules which specify how a political community is governed. In the event, public debate over constitutional reform…
Swings and Roundabouts? Patterns of Voting for the Australian Labor Party at State and Commonwealth Lower House Elections, 1901-96
Federation for Australia in 1901 was closely followed by the rise of the mass party, an organisation with the potential to reduce the regional differentiation that federalism is designed to protect. Loyalty to party can submerge local issues in nationally based partisanship, and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) may have performed precisely this role, particularly if voters have not differentiated between voting for the ALP at state and Commonweal…
The Captive Republic
Introduction 1. The piratical republic: 1788-1833 2. The stockmen's republic: 1833-1848 3. The last resort: 1848-1856 4. Bunyip aristocracy 5. A Victorian republic 6. Quieta non movere: 1856-1880 7. A white man's republic: 1880-1887 8. Nation and republic: 1887-1891 9. The common weal - republicanism and Federation 10. The Imperial mardi gras: 1901-1963 11. The end of the affair: 1963-1995
The Representation of Small Parties and Independents in the Senate
Minor party and independent senators have played a critical role in supporting procedural changes which have given the Australian Senate the ability to play an independent role in the legislative process, and to scrutinise the executive branch effectively. This article examines how this situation has followed from the adoption of proportional representation (PR) for Senate elections since 1949. In looking at the evidence available in 1948, it is …
A Web-based Database on Australian Government and Politics
Trading party preferences
Uncontested Seats and the Evolution of Party Competition
Representative democracy presumes competitive elections at which voters have a choice of candidates. This is consistent with the current nature of electoral campaigning, which is system-wide and embraces every opportunity for partisan competition. From this perspective, uncontested seats in parliamentary systems are associated with earlier stages of representative government before modern parties emerged. Yet a survey of Australian state and fede…
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