Representation and institutional change : 50 years of proportional representation in the Senate / edited by Marian Sawer and Sarah Miskin.
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Publication details:
Canberra : Dept of the Senate, 2000.
Record id:
25675
Series:
Papers on Parliament ; no 34.
Subject:
Australia. -- Parliament.
Constitutional history -- Australia.
Constitutional law.
Australia -- Politics and government.
Contents:
1. Overview: institutional design and the role of the Senate
2. Why we chose proportional representation
3. The Senate and representative democracy
4. Australian democracy: modifying marjoritarianism?
5. Accountability versus government control: the effect of proportional representation
6. Can the Senate claim a mandate?
7. Dilemmas of representation
8. Survival of the fittest: future directions of the Senate
9. A squeeze on the balance of power: using Senate 'reform' to dilute democracy
10. A Labour perspective on Senate reform
11. Should Parliament be abolished?
12. The contribution of the Greens (WA)
13. The representation of small parties and independents
14. Reporting the Senate: three perspectives
15. Lobbying the Senate: two perspectives
16. Personalities versus structure: the fragmentation of the Senate committee system
17. Opening up the policy process
18. Cyberdemocracy and the future of the Australian senate
19. The Senate and proportional representation: some concluding observations.
Note:
"December 1999".
Phys. description:
viii, 218 p.