Changing Leaders, ‘Mediscare’ and Business as Usual: Electoral Behaviour

In some respects, the 2016 Australian federal election had much in common with its recent predecessors. A leadership coup saw the sitting prime minister, Tony Abbott, ousted from office, by Malcolm Turnbull, months prior to the election. A bitter campaign between the major political parties, and wit...

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1. Verfasser:	Clive Bean
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Democracy Economic policy Economics Education Electorate Entitlement programs Governance Government Labor parties Medicare Party identification Political campaigns Political elections Political organizations Political parties Political processes Political regimes Political science Political systems Politics Public expenditures Public finance Representative democracy Social democratic parties Taxation Voting
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Zusammenfassung:	In some respects, the 2016 Australian federal election had much in common with its recent predecessors. A leadership coup saw the sitting prime minister, Tony Abbott, ousted from office, by Malcolm Turnbull, months prior to the election. A bitter campaign between the major political parties, and with prominent participation by minor parties and Independents, culminated in a knife-edge result before the government was finally returned with the barest of majorities in the House of Representatives and without coming close to a majority in the Senate. For much of the campaign, the Liberal–National Party Coalition government appeared to have an