Changing orientations towards Australian democracy
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Dos Santos Batalha, Maria Luisa, Niemeyer, Simon and Dryzek, John. (2013). Changing orientations towards Australian democracy. In In Lyn Carson, John Gastil, Janette Hartz-Karp and Ron Lubensky (Ed.). The Australian citizens' parliament and the future of deliberative democracy pp. 133 University of Pennsylvania Press.
Authors | Dos Santos Batalha, Maria Luisa, Niemeyer, Simon and Dryzek, John |
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Editors | Lyn Carson, John Gastil, Janette Hartz-Karp and Ron Lubensky |
Abstract | The Australian Citizens’ Parliament (ACP) addressed a single broad issue— the nation’s political system. How did participation in this unique event influence participants’ orientations toward that system? We begin by describing our approach to measuring attitude change— involving an extended version of Q methodology. We then identify the basic orientations that Australians have toward politics and examine how those changed over the course of the ACP. We find that participants’ orientations changed significantly, most notably through increased contentment with Australia’s liberal democracy. This finding is perhaps a bit surprising in the context of a process that subjected aspects of Australia’s political system to critical scrutiny. We consider the factors that might have accounted for this shift, as well as their implications. |
Keywords | Australian Citizens’ Parliament; politics; Australia; attitudes |
Page range | 133 |
145 | |
Year | 01 Jan 2013 |
Book title | The Australian citizens' parliament and the future of deliberative democracy |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Place of publication | United States |
Edition | 1 |
Series | Rhetoric and democratic deliberation |
ISBN | 9780271060125 |
Web address (URL) | https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/acu/detail.action?docID=6224166 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
26 Aug 2013 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 10 May 2024 |
Additional information | Copyright © 2013. Pennsylvania State University Press. All rights reserved |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/906v9/changing-orientations-towards-australian-democracy
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