Abbott's gambit : the 2013 Australian federal election / editors, Carol Johnson and John Wanna (with Hsu-Ann Lee).
Australians historically do not change governments lightly. Yet the 2013 federal election heralded a change of government-only the seventh time Australians have voted to change their national government since the Second World War. Tony Abbott, who had been Opposition Leader since 1 December 2009, be...
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Analysing the 2013 Australian federal election; 1. An Overview of the 2013 Federal Election Campaign: Ruinous politics, cynical adversarialism and contending agendas; 2. The Battle for Hearts and Minds; 3. The Leadership Contest: An end to the 'messiah complex'?; 4. The Empire Strikes Back: Mainstream media still matters; 5. New Media in the Electoral Context: The new normal; 6. Campaign Advertising and Communication Strategies in the Election of 2013.
- 7. Making Policy and Winning Votes: Election promises and political strategies in the 2013 campaign8. How the Pollsters Called the Horse Race: Changing polling technologies, cost pressures, and the concentration on the two-party-preferred; 9. All That Glitters: Betting markets and the 2013 Australian federal election; 10. Nearly All About Kevin: The election as drawn by Australian cartoonists; 11. The Liberal Campaign in the 2013 Federal Election; 12. The Labor Party Campaign and Aftermath; 13. The 2013 Federal Election: The Greens campaign.
- 14. The Electoral Geography of the 2013 Election: Voting patterns in the states and regions for the Lower House15. Regional Place-Based Identities and Party Strategies at the 2013 Federal Election; 16. The Contest for Rural Representation: The celebrated contest over Indi and the fate of the independents; 17. The Advent of Two New Micro Parties: The Palmer United Party and Katter's Australia Party; 18. An Impecunious Election: The significance of fiscal and economic issues; 19. Ethnic Voting and Asylum Issues.
- 20. The Environment in the 2013 Election: Controversies over climate change, the carbon tax and conservation21. Unstable Bipartisanship or Off the Agenda? Social issues during the 2013 election campaign; 22. Gender and the 2013 Election: The Abbott 'mandate'; 23. Explaining the Results; 24. Documenting the Inevitable: Voting behaviour at the 2013 Australian election; Conclusion: Reflections on Abbott's Gambit-Mantras, manipulation and mandates.