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By: Facts on the 2010 election « Geoff Robinson

Facts on the 2010 election « Geoff Robinson — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:46:27 +0000

[...] this sheds light on the evaluation of the Greens’ appeal to left-wing voters as discussed by Tad Tietze. Have I found my 2010 APSA paper topic? Share Geoff Robinson [...]

By: NSW Labor – Degeneration versus resilience « Overland literary journal

NSW Labor – Degeneration versus resilience « Overland literary journal — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:32:06 +0000

[...] As I have argued previously, it is when the Greens have been able to present a positive alternative to Labor’s rightward march that they have been able to break key sections of its support base. This has been weaker in terms of an orientation on unionised workers, despite some inspiring exceptions (e.g. Adam Bandt’s campaigns, or the NSW Greens’ orientation on teacher militancy and anti-privatisation campaigns). In large part this is because Greens ideology accepts post-class conceptions of social structure and change, with inequality and injustice seen as due to bad policy (or ‘values’) rather than as the product of relations of social domination. In this sense their politics closely resemble those of the ALP Left of a past era, with no substantive critique of social power or its expression through the state. [...]

By: Journals: Asia Lit Review 16 & Overland 199 | Me fail? I fly!

Journals: Asia Lit Review 16 & Overland 199 | Me fail? I fly! — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:51:36 +0000

[...] Tietze analyses the rise of the Greens as a party attractive to the left but with a complex relationship with left [...]