Americas Political Centre of Gravity

[brian ross]

Looking at those graphs where would Australian parties lie

I would think Labor just ceft of the median and the Liberal-Coalition just to the right.

Somewhere more to the centre than British Labour on the left or Conservative on the right

Your thoughts?

I would place the ALP just to the right of the centre line and the Tories even further to the right. The ALP under Hawke/Keating made a determined effort to displace the Tories from the centre. The Tories under Howard replied by moving further to the right. Today, the Tories are firmly in the middle right. The ALP still hovers in the middle.

[Black Orchid]

Another response to this from elsewhere because I didn't read it ...

It's a Berlin Open University adjunct professor's views about how America is not like Europe - bought to you by a 20-something Indian intern writing for the NTY.

Thomas Greven?

Thomas Greven teaches graduate and undergraduate seminars on American politics (Congress and the presidency, political parties and interest groups, elections, and populism), US foreign and foreign economic policy, labor movements and industrial relations, the global economy and global governance, film and politics as well as comics and politics.


Europe - and Germany in particular - is no gold standard in determining the correct line-up of what is right or left wing.

LOL