GOVT2614 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Left-Libertarianism, United Tasmania Group, Post-Materialism
26 Jul 2018
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Postmaterialism as a basis for support: united tasmania party, the first green" party, australian democrats, the green-ish" party, nuclear disarmament party, anti-nukes and future senators, the australian greens. We can no longer rely on the established parties, nor can we go on working solely through extra- parliamentary channels. There is a need for a new force, both in parliament and outside it. Ingelhart (1971) and others defined post materialism as: Transferred their focus to other values: post materialists are more likely to emphasise values associated with. Maslow than those associated with liberalism [lafferty & knutsen,1985: they describing the values of solidarity and decision making involvement identified as important by post materialists as. However, kitschelt also explicitly proposes that left-libertarian parties: Oppose the priority given to economic growth in public policy making an overly bureaucratized welfare state, and restrictions placed on participation which confine policy making to the elites of well-organised interest groups and parties (1989, 9)
