A century of compulsory voting in Australia : genesis, impact and future / Matteo Bonotti, Paul Strangio, editors
- Bib ID:
- 8567063
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- Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
- 1 online resource ( 281 pages.) :
- ISBN:
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- 9789813340251 ((electronic bk.))
- 9813340258 ((electronic bk.))
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 981334024X
- 9789813340244
- Series:
- Elections, voting, technology.
- Full contents:
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- Intro
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Introduction
- Compulsory Voting in Australia
- Outline of the Book
- Bibliography
- 2 How Australia Got Compulsory Voting
- Introduction
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 3 'A Lonely and Quixotic Battle': A Short History of Agitation Against Compulsory Voting in Australia
- Introduction
- Early and Isolated Voices of Opposition
- A Blight on the Party System
- The Seeds of Mobilisation
- A Concerted but Chequered Push, 1988-2005
- Opposition Peters Out
- An Unassailable Institution?
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 4 Assessing Objections to Compulsory Voting in Australia
- Introduction
- Compulsory Voting and Individual Liberty
- Compulsory Voting as Unnecessary
- Compulsory Voting as Anti-democratic
- Compulsory Voting and the Right Not to Vote
- Compulsory Voting and Political Parties
- Disengaged Voters
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 5 Public Opinion and Compulsory Voting in Australia
- Introduction
- Long-Term Support for Compulsory Voting
- Who Needs Help to the Polls?
- Electoral Effects of Compulsory Voting
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.
- 6 Non-participation in Australian National Elections: Fault-Lines in the Compulsory Voting Consensus
- Introduction
- Enrolment and Voting in Australia: Rules, Structures and Trends
- From Enrolment to Turn-Out: The Fault-Lines Confirmed
- Inner Urban Absenteeism: A Case of Absent Youth?
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 7 Becoming an Informed Voter: Compulsory Voting and Developing Political Knowledge in Australia
- Introduction
- Political Literacy in Australia and Abroad
- What Do Australian Voters Need to Know About Politics?
- Political System
- Electoral System
- Political Parties and Political Representatives
- Political Issues and Policies
- Sources of Political Information
- Parents
- Schools
- Media
- Political Parties
- Electoral Commissions
- Barriers to Political Knowledge
- Disinterest
- Education
- Disinformation
- Moving Forward
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 8 'Choice of the Manner in Which Thou Wilt Die': The Australian Courts on Compulsory Voting
- Introduction
- Electoral Compulsion in Australia: A Potted Legal History
- The Courts on Compulsion
- The High Court on the Constitutionality and Defensibility of Compulsion
- Compulsion Trumps Implied Freedoms
- 'Valid and Sufficient' Excuses for not Voting
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 9 Compulsory Voting: Activating the Demos and Enhancing Procedural Democracy in Australia
- Introduction
- Legitimacy in a Procedural Democracy
- Compulsory Voting and Full Participation
- Is Opportunity to Vote Enough?
- The User-Friendly Democracy
- The Trusted Democracy
- Compulsory Voting and Attentive Publics
- How Compulsory Voting Makes Governments More Representative
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 10 Public Reason, Compulsory Voting and Australian Democracy
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- Includes index.
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