Opposition Vanishing The Australian Labor Party and the Crisis in Elite Politics /

• Main Author: Lavelle, Ashley (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Comparative politics.; Elections.; World politics.; Islands of the Pacific-History.; Comparative Politics.; Electoral Politics.; Political History.; Australasian History.

This book questions the common understanding of party political behaviour, explaining some of the sharp differences in political behaviour through a focused case study-drawing systematically on primary and archival research-of the Australian Labor Party's political and policy directions during...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The Whys and Wherefores: What Oppositions Do
• Chapter 2: The First Whitlam Opposition (1967-72) - The Impact of the Vietnam War and Conscription
• Chapter 3: Industrial Relations Policy and Labor's Relationship with the Unions
• Chapter 4: Labor in Opposition in a New Economic Paradigm
• Chapter 5: The Labor Opposition and the Uranium Debate (1976-1982)
• Chapter 6: The Labor Opposition and the Accord
• Chapter 7: Labor's Political Direction, 1996-2000 - Continuity Between Government and Opposition
• Chapter 8: Beazley Labor and Globalisation - The Continuation of Bipartisanship
• Chapter 9: Beazley and the 'Small Target' - The Tampa, September 11, and the 2001 Federal Election
• Chapter 10: Labor in Opposition - Contrasts and Continuities.