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Record Nr.

UNINA9910156518703321

Titolo

Party rules? : dilemmas of political party regulation in Australia / / edited by Anika Gauja and Marian Sawer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-76046-077-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

324.294009049

Soggetti

Political parties - Australia

Australia Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Trust in political parties has never been lower, but we have more and more of them, to the point where voters need magnifying sheets to read ballot papers. What is the relationship between party regulation and the nature of our democracy? How is it that parties have been able to gather so many public resources yet with so little scrutiny of their affairs? This is the first book on party regulation in Australia. It covers a wide range of issues, from party donations to candidate selection, from expectations of parties in a representative democracy to the reluctance to regulate and the role of the courts where legislators fear to tread.--