From local to national: Explaining the formation of the Australian Green Party

In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 409-425

Abstract

The rise of green parties in Australia follows a path that is well documented in the literature; the inability of other parties to accommodate environmental concerns, the increasing salience of green issues for governments and an electoral regime that permits party insurgency. This article examines how these factors have operated in Australia, and the extent to which a distinctive federal structure and federal electoral regulation of parties served to modify the emergence of a national green party. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]