The Party on Remote Ground: Disengaging and Disappearing?
McDonnell, Duncan, and Stanford, Bartholomew (2024) The Party on Remote Ground: Disengaging and Disappearing? Parliamentary Affairs, 77 (1). pp. 46-61.
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Abstract
The party on the ground has traditionally enabled linkage with the party in office along with providing candidates, selectorates, and campaign volunteers. While this still occurs in cities, we do not know how party organisation changes have affected remote areas. To investigate, we examine two remote Australian electorates: the Barkly in the Northern Territory and the Kimberley in Western Australia. Based on interviews with grassroots members, representatives and officials, we conclude that, although parties still exert their traditional functions in some remote areas, in others they have disengaged, rendering membership less meaningful and weakening the chain of democratic legitimacy.
| Item ID: | 85597 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1460-2482 |
| Copyright Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Hansard Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
| Funders: | Australian Research Council (ARC) |
| Projects and Grants: | ARC Discovery Indigenous Award: IN170100036 |
| Date Deposited: | 27 May 2025 21:43 |
| FoR Codes: | 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4408 Political science > 440899 Political science not elsewhere classified @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 23 LAW, POLITICS AND COMMUNITY SERVICES > 2302 Government and politics > 230299 Government and politics not elsewhere classified @ 100% |
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