Testing the precepts of republican political theory against citizen attitudes, beliefs and practices

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ID12642989
AuthorsClive Bean (0000-0003-3249-3383, Queensland University of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume37
Issue2
Pages141-155
Publication date2001-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/144078301128756265
OpenAlexW1987888090
LanguageEN
References cited14

Quite apart from the constitutional debate over whether Australia should become a republic, republican political theory has recently experienced something of a revival in the Australian context through the work of Philip Pettit in the Reshaping Australian Institutions Project at the Australian National University. This article outlines the fundamental assumptions of this version of republican theory and then proceeds to test them empirically with sample survey data which explore citizen attitudes, beliefs and practices on these questions. The results indicate that the tenets of republication theory are widely accepted by the Australian public, but that this endorsement does not translate strongly into behavioural outcomes. The article concludes with a discussion of why this might be the case and of the wider implications of these findings

Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sample (material · Social science · Sociology · Test (biology · Australian History and Society · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law

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