Democracy and elections
How democracy works: elections and voting, electoral law, parliament, minor parties, populism and political participation.
Books 2
Research 6
Voting with time commitment for decentralized governance: Bond voting as a Sybil-resistant mechanismMohan, V., Khezr, P. and Berg, C. (2024) · Management Science 70(12): 8709–8734Review: Voting over a Distributed Ledger: An Interdisciplinary PerspectiveBerg, C. (2023) · Journal of Economic Literature 61(1): 295–297Commitment voting: a mechanism for intensity of preference revelation and long-term commitment in blockchain governanceBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2020) · Working paper, SSRNCryptodemocracy and its institutional possibilitiesAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Lane, A.M. and Potts, J. (2018) · The Review of Austrian Economics 33(3): 363–374Populism and Democracy: A Transaction Cost Diagnosis and a Cryptodemocracy TreatmentBerg, C. (2017) · Working paper, SSRNDelegation and Unbundling in a Crypto-DemocracyBerg, C. (2017) · Working paper, SSRN
Media 8
One Nation’s slide raises questions about populismTicker · 12 July 2026Pauline Hanson overtakes Albanese as preferred PMTicker · 14 June 2026One Nation surpasses Labor in latest pollTicker · 1 June 2026One Nation’s surprise win and its impact on Australian politicsTicker · 10 May 2026Just the Ticket for Biden?The Looking Forward Podcast · 12 August 2020
Why Size Doesn’t Matter For So-Called Minor PartiesThe Looking Forward Podcast · 29 May 2019A Time for Mainstream AustraliansThe Looking Forward Podcast · 22 May 2019Vote Early and Vote OftenThe Looking Forward Podcast · 8 May 2019
Why Size Doesn’t Matter For So-Called Minor PartiesThe Looking Forward Podcast · 29 May 2019A Time for Mainstream AustraliansThe Looking Forward Podcast · 22 May 2019Vote Early and Vote OftenThe Looking Forward Podcast · 8 May 2019Commentary 72
Albo’s reckless and draconian misinformation legislation completely undermines itselfCrikey · 19 Sep 2024Crypto constitutionalismMedium post · 16 May 2018Is reform hopeless in an era of disillusion?IPA Review · 1 Aug 2016Populism is not a dirty wordThe Sunday Age · 10 Jul 2016Where did it go wrong for Turnbull? The budgetABC The Drum · 5 Jul 2016Perverse small-target strategies leave voters guessingABC The Drum · 28 Jun 2016Australia isn’t immune to the Brexit debateABC The Drum · 14 Jun 2016Why we’re seeing less pork barrelling this electionABC The Drum · 31 May 2016Turnbull’s Policies Aren’t Liberal, They’re IncoherentABC The Drum · 26 Apr 2016Turnbull’s Only Real Option Was Bluff And BravadoABC The Drum · 22 Mar 2016Is Abetz right about the same-sex marriage plebiscite?ABC The Drum · 2 Feb 2016Malcolm Turnbull Should Avoid The Seductive Trap Of An Early ElectionABC The Drum · 3 Nov 2015Let’s Be Honest, Question Time Makes Everyone Look StupidABC The Drum · 11 Aug 2015The Weight Of History Bears Down On ShortenABC The Drum · 23 Jun 2015Unelected Officials Are Stifling Our Democratic FreedomsThe Age · 21 Jun 2015Shorten Must Start Thinking About Life After OppositionABC The Drum · 14 Apr 2015Fixed Terms Made A Farce Of Victorian PoliticsABC The Drum · 2 Dec 2014Election Campaign A Time For Politicians To Promise What They Can’t DeliverThe Age · 25 Nov 2014Gimmick Items Dominate Victorian CampaignsThe Sunday Age · 2 Nov 2014No Wonder MPs Are Confused About Security LawsABC The Drum · 28 Oct 2014
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The repeal of the carbon taxIPA Review · 10 Aug 2014The Lessons Abbott Should Learn From VictoriaABC The Drum · 15 Jul 2014Star Wars Cantina: Patronising Politics Strikes BackABC The Drum · 8 Jul 2014Tides To Turn For Shorten On Debt, Boats And TaxABC The Drum · 26 Jun 2014Expelling MP Geoff Shaw Should Not Be The Only Way Out For The Napthine GovernmentThe Age · 9 Jun 2014No Vote Of Confidence In ID LawsABC The Drum · 3 Jun 2014Election Promises Are There For The BreakingABC The Drum · 22 Apr 2014Micro-Parties Tap Into DissatisfactionABC The Drum · 8 Apr 2014Divining The Meaning Of Elections Is A Mug’s GameABC The Drum · 12 Feb 2014Australia’s March To Free Speech Has BegunABC The Drum · 31 Dec 2013Never Trust The ‘Diary’ Of A Political SpinnerABC The Drum · 5 Nov 2013Voting Is Futile But That Doesn’t Mean Elections AreABC The Drum · 29 Oct 2013Behold The Dance Of The Travelling SalesmenABC The Drum · 20 Aug 2013Not The Time To Convince Us Of Economic ProwessABC The Drum · 6 Aug 2013In Defence Of PollingABC The Drum · 18 Jun 2013Labor’s End: Out With The Old, In With The RenewedABC The Drum · 11 Jun 2013Free-Rein Proposal By Canberra Should Be Hobbled Before The PassThe Sunday Age · 5 May 2013War on DemocracyIPA Review · 1 Apr 2013Beware Elite Technocrats And Their Open Disdain For DemocracyThe Sunday Age · 24 Mar 2013Immigration Election: We’ve Been Here BeforeABC The Drum · 5 Mar 2013If It Looks And Smells Like A Campaign, Then It’s A CampaignABC The Drum · 5 Feb 2013This Mindless Pursuit Of Scandal Belongs To The PastThe Sunday Age · 30 Dec 2012The Coalition’s Impressionist Platform Paints The Wrong PictureThe Sunday Age · 18 Nov 2012Rose-Coloured Glasses Make For Sentimental FoolsThe Sunday Age · 14 Oct 2012Is navel-gazing our fastest growing industry?ABC The Drum · 11 Sep 2012Abbott Should Focus On His Second Day As PMABC The Drum · 3 Jul 2012The Farce That Is The Leveson InquiryABC The Drum · 20 Jun 2012Politics Of Contradiction Mean Democracy For Me, But Not For TheeThe Sunday Age · 10 Jun 2012O’Farrell’s Campaign Finance Reforms Are AbominableABC The Drum · 22 Feb 2012The Less Parliament Sits, The Better Off We All Will BeThe Sunday Age · 20 Nov 2011Prime Ministerial Musical ChairsABC The Drum · 14 Sep 2011Abbott Chases Working Votes Even Menzies ForgotABC The Drum · 1 Jun 2011Big Business In Full Flight Is The Clarion Cry Of DemocracyThe Sunday Age · 1 May 2011Staring Through The Greens’ Populist PrismABC The Drum · 17 Nov 2010Tea Party conservatives are brewing up a stormThe Sydney Morning Herald · 18 Sep 2010Life under Gillard could be an expensive businessThe Sunday Age · 5 Sep 2010Informal ballots: blame compulsory votingABC The Drum · 25 Aug 2010Moving forward mantra Gillard’s biggest mistakeABC The Drum · 20 Aug 2010Budget honesty charter corruptedThe Sunday Age · 15 Aug 2010Telling it like it isABC The Drum · 10 Aug 2010Greens find growing up is hard to doThe Sunday Age · 8 Aug 2010Rudd is gone, but he’s still the focusThe Sunday Age · 18 Jul 2010Strange bedfellows make for better governmentThe Sunday Age · 11 Jul 2010Chasing the xenophobic voteABC The Drum · 29 Jun 2010Take The Politics Out Of Commerce, Not Vice VersaThe Sunday Age · 7 Feb 2010Clamp On Conflict Of Interest May Hobble Sound JudgementThe Sunday Age · 27 Oct 2008What next? Liberalism after the Howard governmentIPA Review · 1 Jan 2008IPA Review Editorial, January 2008IPA Review · 1 Jan 2008Where The Liberals Went WrongGeelong Advertiser · 13 Dec 2007Religious Right? Have A Little Faith In The ProcessThe Sunday Age · 11 Nov 2007Aunty Will Be Proud Of Maxine’s CandidacyThe Australian · 27 Feb 2007The Debate: Campaign SpendingThe Daily Telegraph · 31 Mar 2005