This unit furthers students’ knowledge about political parties. It surveys the histories and various configurations of political parties in Australia and other countries. It also examines how forms of mobilisation, including social movements, help to revitalise democracy. Topics may include: labour movements and parties of labour; civil rights and indigenous peoples’ rights movements; student radicalism including in the “sixties”; green movements and parties; feminist movements; new-right movements and neo-liberal parties; xenophobic populist parties; and the anti-corporate or global -- Course Website
Instructor: A Scott
