People and parliamentarians : the great divide

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Title: People and parliamentarians : the great divide
Author(s): Betts, Katharine
Abstract: Most candidates for federal elections hold values on economic and social questions that are unlike those of most voters. However, Coalition candidates are much closer to the people who vote for them than Labor candidates are to Labor voters. Labor’s electoral base is divided between a relatively small number of new-class social professionals and a relatively large number of people in traditional working-class occupations. These two groups often hold different values on political questions, such as border control, the size of the immigration program, cultural pluralism and so on. Labor candidates in federal elections are more likely to sympathise with the social professionals’ values than with those of their traditional supporters.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Source: People and Place, Vol. 12, no. 2 (2004), pp. 64-83
Publication year: 2004
Publisher: Centre for Population and Urban Research
ISSN: 1039-4788
Publisher URL: http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/480481
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