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From local to national: Explaining the formation of the Australian Green Party

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The rise of green parties in Australia follows a path that is well documented in the literature; the inability of other parties to accommodate environmental concerns, the increasing salience of green issues for governments and an electoral regime that permits party insurgency. This article examines how these factors have operated in Australia, and the extent to which a distinctive federal structure and federal electoral regulation of parties served to modify the emergence of a national green party.

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Party Politics

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Publisher

Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications., 2012

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p. 409-425

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

1354-0688

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Volume 18, Number 3, May 2012 p. 409-425

Subject(s)

Political parties
federalism
electoral systems
Australia
green parties

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