The Australian Electoral System Origins,

The first-ever comprehensive study of the design of Australian electoral systems. It focuses on the two electoral systems, both preferential, that are most closely associated with Australia: namely the alternative vote and the single, transferable vote.

Acknowledgments

vii

Abbreviations

ix

Australian electoral system design

1

(20)

Australian electoral systems: origins and variation

3

(4)

Studying the operation of Australia's electoral systems

7

(6)

Locating preferential electoral systems in Australia

13

(4)

Assessing Australia's electoral systems

17

(4)

Australia's electoral systems, 1902--83

21

(26)

Early debates over electoral system design

23

(6)

The 1902 Commonwealth Electoral Act

29

(7)

The adoption of AV for the House of Representatives

36

(4)

Reform of the Senate electoral system, 1918--83

40

(5)

Conclusion: accident and intent in electoral system design

45

(2)

Australia's contemporary electoral systems

47

(31)

Australia's evolving electoral systems

49

(3)

The alternative vote and its variants

52

(5)

The single transferable vote and its variants

57

(11)

Australia's experiments with alternatives to AV and STV

68

(8)

Conclusion

76

(2)

Preferential systems and their consequences

78

(24)

AV as a non-proportional system

80

(3)

STV as a proportional system

83

(8)

Preferential systems and the fate of individual candidates

91

(9)

Conclusion

100

(2)

The voter versus the party

102

(19)

Party service among election candidates

106

(4)

Candidates' views of their representative roles

110

(3)

Campaign activity by Australian parliamentary candidates

113

(6)

Conclusion

119

(2)

Compulsory voting, party control and the voter

121

(26)

Compulsory voting in Australia

122

(4)

Preferential voting and the strategic voter

126

(7)

Ticket voting and the `preferential voter'

133

(5)

Compulsion, complexity and voter engagement

138

(7)

Conclusion

145

(2)

Preferential systems and voter satisfaction

147

(19)

Ballot structure and democracy

149

(6)

Preferential systems and voter satisfaction with democracy

155

(3)

Electoral systems and political attitudes

158

(6)

Conclusion

164

(2)

Preferential voting and electoral system design

166

(14)

The politics of electoral system design

167

(2)

Variations in electoral system families

169

(2)

Electoral and behavioural consequences

171

(3)

From innovation to stagnation: electoral system design

174

(4)

Where to now?

178

(2)

Appendix

180

(4)

Notes

184

(11)

Bibliography

195

(12)

Index

207

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