Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160103110

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160103110

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Parties and Participation: Evolving Australian Party Membership. The project aims to provide new insights into how political party membership is evolving and how citizens and parties engage with each other today. The decline of party memberships is usually equated with the death of parties as participatory organisations and the erosion of their crucial role as vehicles for democratic linkage. Applying a new theoretical framework integrating individual, party and state perspectives, this project plans to examine how membership is structured, how it is practised, what it means today and why membership is declining. Combining organisational analysis with survey and focus group data in an innovative mixed-methods research design, it aims to evaluate what parties can do to secure their future role in Australian democracy and to foster democratic participation through new modes of partisan engagement.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-10-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $185,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Comparative Government and Politics | Australian Government and Politics | Political Science

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Political Systems |

Other Keywords

Australian Government and Politics | Comparative Government and Politics | Political Science | Political Systems

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