Independent and minor party success is concentrated in inner-urban and rural seats — not the suburbs. And since 2011, women make up nearly 60% of newly elected IMPs. Hayman, Spies-Butcher & Riboldi find evidence of enduring realignment, not just backlash. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Is the Community Independents Movement about electing candidates or empowering communities? Hendriks, Lloyd-Hurwitz & Reid find this tension is the CIM’s defining internal challenge - and that managing it is key to its unity. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Minor parties & independents account for 16% of disclosed federal political funding, but their funding profiles are strikingly different from each other, and from the majors. First systematic study of non-major electoral finance in Australia. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

Independent and minor party success is concentrated in inner-urban and rural seats — not the suburbs. And since 2011, women make up nearly 60% of newly elected IMPs. Hayman, Spies-Butcher & Riboldi find evidence of enduring realignment, not just backlash. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Is the Community Independents Movement about electing candidates or empowering communities? Hendriks, Lloyd-Hurwitz & Reid find this tension is the CIM’s defining internal challenge - and that managing it is key to its unity. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: 34% of non-US universities require all three elements of Wahlke elements of a political science curriculum vs just 18% in the US. Richard Frank’s cross-national study of 218 programs across 5 democracies reveals what drives curriculum design. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: the US military suppressed the Diné language in boarding schools - then extracted it as a military weapon. Sulagna Basu analyses this contradiction through the concept of ‘technification’ in settler militarism.

Settler militarism and technification: the case of the Navajo Code Talkers

This article builds on Juliet Nebolon’s conceptualisation of settler militarism (2024) to argue that settler militarism operates through the process of technification that emerges as a specific mec...

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New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Minor parties & independents account for 16% of disclosed federal political funding, but their funding profiles are strikingly different from each other, and from the majors. First systematic study of non-major electoral finance in Australia. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Real domestic emissions barely moved in Labor’s first term. Matthew Ryan argues the ALP’s climate approach is a Faustian bargain with private capital — and its ‘tactical fatalism’ on fossil fuels is driving us deeper into overshoot. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: 34% of non-US universities require all three elements of Wahlke elements of a political science curriculum vs just 18% in the US. Richard Frank’s cross-national study of 218 programs across 5 democracies reveals what drives curriculum design. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: JRG didn’t reshape student choices - it deepened a curriculum crisis already underway. Thompson & Gerard find HASS course offerings at four universities fell by over 60% since 2017, driven by chronic underfunding, not the price signal. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: the US military suppressed the Diné language in boarding schools - then extracted it as a military weapon. Sulagna Basu analyses this contradiction through the concept of ‘technification’ in settler militarism. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Real domestic emissions barely moved in Labor’s first term. Matthew Ryan argues the ALP’s climate approach is a Faustian bargain with private capital — and its ‘tactical fatalism’ on fossil fuels is driving us deeper into overshoot. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: JRG didn’t reshape student choices - it deepened a curriculum crisis already underway. Thompson & Gerard find HASS course offerings at four universities fell by over 60% since 2017, driven by chronic underfunding, not the price signal. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

New in AusJPS: Lindsay Katz, Inessa De Angelis & Rohan Alexander analyse 535,961 statements in Australian parliamentary debates to examine gender, party and interruptions in the House of Representatives. www.tandfonline.com/...

📣Reminder✨ The Peter Balint Memorial Prize in Political Theory is taking submissions. 🎓Awarded for an unpublished paper that makes a significant scholarly contribution to political theory. 🏆Includes a monetary award + pathway to publication with @ausjpolsci.bsky.social 🔗 tinyurl.com/peterbalint

New in AusJPS: Lindsay Katz, Inessa De Angelis & Rohan Alexander analyse 535,961 statements in Australian parliamentary debates to examine gender, party and interruptions in the House of Representatives.

Do women politicians face more interruptions? An analysis of interjections in the Australian parliamentary debates (1998-2025)

Interruptions are a routine component of parliamentary debate, but also reveal underlying power dynamics and behavioural norms within political institutions. Using digitised Australian Hansard tran...

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New in AJPS: Katharine Gelber uses queer autoethnography to analyse donor conception law reform in Queensland, highlighting the emotions and labour behind long-term political change.

Donor conception law reform in Queensland: an autoethnographic analysis

In recent years there has been a swathe of policy reform around Australia in relation to providing information on donor conception to the donor conceived. The primary impetus for change has been th...

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New in AusJPS: Olli Hellmann examines how history is mobilised in climate and conservation politics, analysing 25,000+ submissions on Aotearoa New Zealand’s Fast-track Approvals Bill.

Mobilising the historical past in climate and conservation politics: the case of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Fast-track Approvals Bill

Research has documented how the historical past can be mobilised to legitimise policies and political action, yet we know very little about how collective memories are used to support stronger cons...

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New in AusJPS: Amanda Williams & Vanessa Rose analyse the Morrison government’s “gas-fired recovery”, showing how gas was constructed as central to economic recovery, energy transition and fossil fuel longevity.

‘Gas has chosen itself’: a discourse analysis of the Morrison government’s gas-fired recovery

Within weeks of the catastrophic 2019–2020 Black Summer bushfire season, an event widely linked to climate change, the Morrison government announced a gas-fired recovery response to the economic do...

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New in AusJPS: Claire Fitzpatrick examines #ShoutYourAbortion and #RoevWade, asking how hashtags can amplify feminist counterpublics while also revealing the limits of deliberation in hostile digital spaces.

#ShoutYourAbortion and being heard: the affordances of hashtags for feminist counterpublics in hostile digital atmospheres

This article critically explores counterpublic responses to the overturning of Roe v Wade and the intense contestation on Twitter (now X) between pro-abortion and anti-abortion advocates. Focusing ...

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New in AJPS: Katharine Gelber uses queer autoethnography to analyse donor conception law reform in Queensland, highlighting the emotions and labour behind long-term political change.

Donor conception law reform in Queensland: an autoethnographic analysis

In recent years there has been a swathe of policy reform around Australia in relation to providing information on donor conception to the donor conceived. The primary impetus for change has been th...

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"Enduring realignment: gender and geography in Australian independent and minor party politics". New and open access from @phoebehayman.bsky.social, @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social and me in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social @auspsa.bsky.social @popgroupaus.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thought-provoking to read the article below after reading danah boyd's new article on the evolution of social media into parasocial media. bsky.app/profile/kate...

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New in AusJPS: Adele Webb, Katharina Esau & Nicole Curato introduce a special issue on transformations in the public sphere, rethinking publicness, deliberation and democracy in platformised media environments. www.tandfonline.com/...

Worth a read if you are interested in the effects of government intervention in humanities & social sciences education (in this case the policy of “jobs ready graduates” made HASS degrees more $$$ for Australian uni students - with a non-surprising result)

Australian Journal of Political Science@ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New in @ausjps: Kate Thompson & Kelly Gerard examine Job Ready Graduates, HASS curriculum rationalisation and the Australian regulatory state - showing how disciplines are pushed to articulate their value in economic terms.

New in AusJPS: Adele Webb, Katharina Esau & Nicole Curato introduce a special issue on transformations in the public sphere, rethinking publicness, deliberation and democracy in platformised media environments. www.tandfonline.com/...

New in AusJPS: Amanda Williams & Vanessa Rose analyse the Morrison government’s “gas-fired recovery”, showing how gas was constructed as central to economic recovery, energy transition and fossil fuel longevity.

‘Gas has chosen itself’: a discourse analysis of the Morrison government’s gas-fired recovery

Within weeks of the catastrophic 2019–2020 Black Summer bushfire season, an event widely linked to climate change, the Morrison government announced a gas-fired recovery response to the economic do...

tandfonline.com

New in @ausjps: Kate Thompson & Kelly Gerard examine Job Ready Graduates, HASS curriculum rationalisation and the Australian regulatory state - showing how disciplines are pushed to articulate their value in economic terms.

Graduate employability, curriculum rationalisation, and the Australian regulatory state

In June 2020, the Australian Coalition Government introduced the Job Ready Graduates (JRG) policy, seeking to discourage student uptake of humanities and social sciences (HASS) courses by increasin...

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New in AusJPS: Claire Fitzpatrick examines #ShoutYourAbortion and #RoevWade, asking how hashtags can amplify feminist counterpublics while also revealing the limits of deliberation in hostile digital spaces. www.tandfonline.com/...

Publication day! Here I try to figure out what the ALP is up to with climate and energy. I argue by relying on private capital to build out its "transition", the Albanese gvt will ultimately fail to decarbonise. Open access! No paywall! @ausjpolsci.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....