Parties and Participation: Evolving Australian Party Membership

政党和参与：不断发展的澳大利亚党员身份

• 批准号: DP160103110
• 负责人: Prof Anika Gauja
• 金额: $ 12.96万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2020-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP160103110
• 关键词: Parties; Participation; Evolving; Australian; Party

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.

该项目旨在提供有关政党成员如何发展以及今天公民和政党如何相互互动的新见解。党员资格的下降通常等同于当事方作为参与组织的死亡以及其作为民主联系的工具的关键作用的侵蚀。该项目应用了一个集成个人，政党和国家观点的新理论框架，计划研究成员的结构，实践方式，今天的含义以及成员资格的下降。将组织分析与调查和焦点小组数据结合在创新的混合方法研究设计中，旨在评估当事方可以采取什么措施来确保其未来在澳大利亚民主中的作用，并通过党派参与的新模式促进民主参与。