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Postgraduate Student |
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Peter
Tucker (PhD Candidate)
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Email
peter.tucker@tdctasmania.com
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Thesis
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Political Mavericks in Australia |
Abstract
The purpose of this PhD thesis is to, in simple terms,
determine what factors influence individual politicians
to become "mavericks" and, in exploring the
concept of being a political maverick, what might be
the costs and the benefits to those politicians, what
might be the impediments to becoming a maverick, and
what might they tell us about how debates are framed
in the electorate and voters primed to particular issues.
The research problem may be written as:
What motivates political mavericks in Australia, how
can their conduct be defined, and what are the consequences
of maverick behaviour: to the individual, to the party
and to the electorate?
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Assoiate Professor Richard Herr |
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