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Professionals or Part-timers?: Major Party Senators in Australia
Peter Van Onselen
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Paperback. Due to their pre-parliamentary careers and the influence of electoral rules, Senators are available, in several senses, to perform key tasks, both prior to and during the formal election campaign, in assisting their parties to secure the maximum number of House of Representatives seats. But how professional really are major party senators? Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JPH; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 525.
Major party Senators are highly partisan actors, their strong partisanship is partly a result of their backgrounds in central office work in their political parties, and also a product of their election by means of a de facto list system of proportional representation, with centralised selection of lists. If the Senate's electoral system makes major party Senators heavily dependent on party, it also largely frees them of accountability to the electoral district they represent. Due to their pre-parliamentary careers and the influence of electoral rules, Senators are available, in several senses, to perform key tasks, both prior to and during ... Read more
Major party Senators are highly partisan actors, their strong partisanship is partly a result of their backgrounds in central office work in their political parties, and also a product of their election by means of a de facto list system of proportional representation, with centralised selection of lists. If the Senate's electoral system makes major party Senators heavily dependent on party, it also largely frees them of accountability to the electoral district they represent. Due to their pre-parliamentary careers and the influence of electoral rules, Senators are available, in several senses, to perform key tasks, both prior to and during ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
Carlton, Australia
ISBN
9780522868999
SKU
V9780522868999
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Peter Van Onselen
Dr Peter van Onselen has frequently appeared in the media as a political commentator, panellist, contributing editor, host and print journalist. His book on former Prime Minister John Howard became a best seller, and he was recently appointed Winthrop Professor and Foundation Chair of Journalism at the University of Western Australia.
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