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- Title
- Class and the 1996 Australian election
- Author(s)
- Betts, Katharine
- Abstract
- The relationship between social class and electoral behaviour in Australia is changing. In the 1960s the majority of working-class voters supported the Labor Party; in 1996 more working-class voters (manual workers and people in routine clerical jobs) voted for the Coalition than for Labor. A perception among some members of this group that Labor no longer reflects either their cultural values or their economic interests may help explain this shift.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
- Source
- People and Place, Vol. 4, no. 4 (1996), pp. 38-45
- Publication year
- 1996
- FOR Code(s)
- 1205 Urban and Regional Planning; 1603 Demography
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Electoral behaviour; Social class
- Publisher
- Monash Centre for Population and Urban Research
- ISSN
- 1039-4788
- Publisher URL
- http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/481447
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1996 Monash University and Katharine Betts. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
- Full text
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