The demise of ‘countrymindedness’: New players or changing values in Australian rural politics?

摘要: Abstract Aitkin's (1985) analysis of the National party (and its antecedents) depicts it as an ideologically based party, born a past political culture that pitted country against city. Furthermore, Aitkin asserted party's electoral fortunes were likely to decline result impact demographic, and hence social change, was having on countrymindedness ethos has underpinned success since 1920s. This paper examines thesis by analysing performance in six northern New South Wales electorates recent Federal elections, considers demographic change had fortunes.