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dc.contributor.authorMcSwiney, Jordan James
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-09T00:58:29Z
dc.date.available2022-02-09T00:58:29Z
dc.date.issued2021en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2123/27423
dc.descriptionIncludes publication
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the organisational dynamics of Australian far-right political parties at the time of the 2019 Australian federal election. This election represents a high-water mark for far-right electoral competition in Australia, with eight far-right parties including Pauline Hanson’s One Nation collectively standing more than 200 candidates around the country. Despite the unprecedented showing, the results for the far-right were muted, and since the election several of the parties have folded. Taking a mixed-method approach I combine digital social network analysis, qualitative content analysis and semi-structured interviews with party elites to analyse how Australian far-right parties manage their internal organisation and cope with problems of collective choice, organisational governance, and mobilisation. I argue that like their counterparts in Europe, Australian far-right parties are highly centralised and poorly institutionalised organisations, dependent on their party leaders, and with few opportunities for members to participate in party life. Instead, these parties rely on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and their interconnectedness with the non-party sector of the Australian far right, to attract and energise supporters. They emphasise the mobilisation of partisans through specific mobilising frames, such as anti-Muslim racism, rather than party building. The Australian far right’s electoral stagnation is, I argue, a product of poor organisation and leadership, rather than a lack of demand for far-right ideas in Australia.en_AU
dc.language.isoenen_AU
dc.subjectfar righten_AU
dc.subjectpolitical party organisationen_AU
dc.subjectAustralian politicsen_AU
dc.subjectdigital politicsen_AU
dc.subjectPauline Hanson's One Nationen_AU
dc.subjectsocial movementsen_AU
dc.titlePolitical Party Organisation and the Australian Far Righten_AU
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.thesisDoctor of Philosophyen_AU
dc.rights.otherThe author retains copyright of this thesis. It may only be used for the purposes of research and study. It must not be used for any other purposes and may not be transmitted or shared with others without prior permission.en_AU
usyd.facultySeS faculties schools::Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences::School of Social and Political Sciencesen_AU
usyd.departmentDepartment of Government and International Relationsen_AU
usyd.degreeDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_AU
usyd.awardinginstThe University of Sydneyen_AU
usyd.advisorGauja, Anika
usyd.include.pubYesen_AU


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