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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132292303321

Autore

Johnson Carol

Titolo

Abbot's gambit : the 2013 Australian federal election / / edited by Carol Johnson and John Wanna (with Hsu-Ann Lee) ; contributors, Andrew Bartlett [and thirty-three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ANU Press, 2015

Canberra, Australia : , : Australian National University, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-925022-09-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 436 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

324.994

Soggetti

Elections - Australia - History - 21st century

Political campaigns - Australia - History - 21st century

Australia Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Analysing the 2013 Australian federal election; 1. An Overview of the 2013 Federal Election Campaign: Ruinous politics, cynical adversarialism and contending agendas; 2. The Battle for Hearts and Minds; 3. The Leadership Contest: An end to the 'messiah complex'?; 4. The Empire Strikes Back: Mainstream media still matters; 5. New Media in the Electoral Context: The new normal; 6. Campaign Advertising and Communication Strategies in the Election of 2013

7. Making Policy and Winning Votes: Election promises and political strategies in the 2013 campaign8. How the Pollsters Called the Horse Race: Changing polling technologies, cost pressures, and the concentration on the two-party-preferred; 9. All That Glitters: Betting markets and the 2013 Australian federal election; 10. Nearly All About Kevin: The election as drawn by Australian cartoonists; 11. The Liberal Campaign in the 2013 Federal Election; 12. The Labor Party Campaign and Aftermath; 13. The 2013 Federal Election: The Greens campaign

14. The Electoral Geography of the 2013 Election: Voting patterns in the states and regions for the Lower House15. Regional Place-Based



Identities and Party Strategies at the 2013 Federal Election; 16. The Contest for Rural Representation: The celebrated contest over Indi and the fate of the independents; 17. The Advent of Two New Micro Parties: The Palmer United Party and Katter's Australia Party; 18. An Impecunious Election: The significance of fiscal and economic issues; 19. Ethnic Voting and Asylum Issues

20. The Environment in the 2013 Election: Controversies over climate change, the carbon tax and conservation21. Unstable Bipartisanship or Off the Agenda? Social issues during the 2013 election campaign; 22. Gender and the 2013 Election: The Abbott 'mandate'; 23. Explaining the Results; 24. Documenting the Inevitable: Voting behaviour at the 2013 Australian election; Conclusion: Reflections on Abbott's Gambit-Mantras, manipulation and mandates

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a truly comprehensive analysis of the 2013 federal election in Australia, which brought the conservative Abbott government to power, consigned the fractious Labor Party to the Opposition benches and ended the ‘hung parliament’ experiment of 2010–13 in which the Greens and three independents lent their support to form a minority Labor government.