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Australia and the Emergence of the Modern Two‐Party System
Author(s) -
Moore Tod,
Bourke Sandra,
Maddox Graham
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
australian journal of politics and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-8497
pISSN - 0004-9522
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8497.00002
Subject(s) - politics , political science , party platform , political system , feature (linguistics) , political economy , law , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , democracy
Although the Australian party system is accepted in some literature as a "classic" example of a two‐party system, information about how this system came about does not feature prominently in international studies on political parties. It is here argued that Australia indeed blazed the trail for the two‐party model by being the first to link parliamentary organisation directly to a mass electorate.