Post-war changes in the influence of social structure on Australian voting

The ‘decline of social cleavages’ revisited

Bibliographic Data

ID6234904
AuthorsDavid Charnock (Curtin University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume40
Issue3
Pages343-355
Publication date2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustralian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10361140500204017
OpenAlexW2039719379
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

Franklin, Mackie and Valen?s 1992 book on Electoral Change drew on evidence taken from a small number of surveys in each included country (including Australia) during the mid-1960s to 1990 to derive some general conclusions about the historical decline of cleavage politics. In this article, I make some methodological improvements and also considerably chronologically extend the analyses for Australia, to cover the whole of the post-war period. The results show that some of the previous conclusions are incorrect and that although there has been a decline in the strength of association between social structural variables and voting for the ALP over the post-war period, the decline has not been a smooth one and predominantly occurred in the earlier part of the period. I also discuss the results in the context of broader international debates about the impact of social changes on voting

Cleavage (geology · Context (archaeology · Economic history · Economics · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Social change · Social science · Sociology · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · History · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks

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