By Jan Pakulski, B. Tranter
This publication analyses the altering political recruitment of the Australian federal parliamentary elite. It argues that the elite's caliber has been lowered to a worrisome measure, particularly because the Nineteen Nineties. It means that the declining caliber of the Australian 'political category' is a significant component in the back of the declining public belief in politicians.
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They shift from programmatic into patronage/ clientelist parties. Contemporary patronage parties are more opportunistic and particularistic, partly because they lose their large loyal constituencies, and partly because they fall victim to factional divisions. As a result, ‘independents’ proliferate and factional fragmentation interferes with candidate selection by injecting strong doses of factional nepotism. Moreover, due to the increasing effect of the mass media on political campaigning and electoral competition, political selection and contest are increasingly ‘personalised’ and vulnerable to celebrity cults.
Rigby and Harasymiv 1983; Gill 1998). According to Weber, professionalisation created career politicians who ‘live off and for’ politics, that is, who treat politics as a source of income, as well as a vocation and life-long career. This may restrict the flow into the political elite of dilettantes and amateurs, but it also proves an ineffective barrier against party hacks, movement-propelled populists and opportunistic demagogues. Professionalisation stabilises elites and may increase their quality, especially their competence and experience, but this approach is under constant criticism from activists-amateurs and advocates of direct democracy.
Moreover, due to the increasing effect of the mass media on political campaigning and electoral competition, political selection and contest are increasingly ‘personalised’ and vulnerable to celebrity cults. 0005 28 The Decline of Political Leadership in Australia? criteria of political recruitment by making it less meritocratic in the elite-qualitative sense. Changing political recruitment All changes in political elite recruitment have to be seen in the broader context of political modernisation.