Social Media Revolution Series
Covering the election beyond our memes: what role for visual politics and social media?
May 13, 2016 09:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Staffers for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton recently asked for an unflattering photo of him at a press conference, already posted and noticed online, to be taken down by the reporter who posted it. The response to...
UK elections: Labour wins London mayoralty, but otherwise mixed
May 13, 2016 09:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Elections were held in the UK last Thursday. At stake were the Scottish and Welsh assemblies, the Mayoralty of London and control of 124 English councils. Labours Sadiq Khan is the new Mayor of London, after defeating...
Lessons from history in how to run a good election campaign – or how to avoid a really bad one
May 13, 2016 09:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Federal elections are fecund sources of lessons for the political class. From 1993 they learned not to make a big target of yourself as an opposition party. The Coalitions Fightback! gave Paul Keating hundreds of pages...
Is a capitalist democracy possible?
May 13, 2016 09:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Classical economics predicts that providing people with more choice will improve well-being; however, behavioural economists have discovered that humans prefer to see choices in terms of few options and clear distinctions....
U.S. Election Series: Trump and Ryan talks provide glimpse of hope
May 13, 2016 07:59 am UTC| Commentary Politics
Republican Partys Presidential nominee, Donald Trump and Republican House speaker Paul Ryan met yesterday in Capitol Hill, with one goal, to unite the Republican Party that has remained divided over Mr. Trumps...
America’s ‘exceptional’ lack of a female President in global perspective
May 12, 2016 02:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Most Americans believe in the exceptionalism of our nation. However, when it comes to electing a female president, the U.S. is not exceptional. Rather it is an exception to the rule. The U.S. ranks 97th in global...
Election explainer: what are the opinion polls and how accurate are they?
May 12, 2016 00:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Business
Many opinion polls will be published during the election campaign. Most use either live phone polling (calls made by a human), robopolling (computer calls) or an online panel (poll sample selected from a large database of...