Political parties in transition / editor, Ian Marsh.

Includes bibliogrphical references and index.

Australia's political cartel? The major parties and the party system in an era of globalisation / Ian Marsh -- Party structures and procedures / Dean Jaensch -- Party organisation and resources: Membership, funding and staffing / Gary Johns -- Cartel parties and election campaigns in Australia / Ian Ward -- The cartel parties model and electoral barriers / Rodney Smith and John O'Mahony -- Plicy convergence between major parties and the representation gap in Australian politics / Ian Marsh -- The Nationals and the Democrats: Cracks and chips in the cartel? / John Warhurst -- The Australian Greens: Challengers to the cartel? / Ariadne Vromen and Nick Turnbull -- The Australian party system, Pauline Hanson's One Nation and the party cartelisation thesis / Murray Goot -- New Zealand's multi-party system: Consolidation of the cartel model under proportional representation / Raymond Miller.

"Reviews the recent developments affecting the major parties and the party system in Australia, and asks the question: are Australia's major parties acting like a cartel?"--P. [4] of cover.

Australian politics have been dominated for nearly a century by two more or less continuous political groupings, Labor and the Liberal- National Coalition. But in recent decades Australians have embraced a new range of issues: gender, the environment, indigenous rights while party membership has collapsed.