Pathways to Power: Australian Political Careers

该项目旨在揭示民选和非民选政治精英事业成功的决定因素。该项目预计将产生有关精英职业道路(政客、政治人员、媒体、利益集团人员和官僚)的新知识，审查政治精英对政府质量的影响，以及这种影响是否随着时间的推移而改变。该项目应通过对推动职业发展的过程进行理论开发，并将澳大利亚确立为促进未来国际合作的基准案例，为学术界带来重大利益。它希望提高公民和政策制定者评估治理和规范政治生活的整体效力的能力。

The project aims to uncover the determinants of successful careers of elected and non-elected political elites. The project expects to generate new knowledge about elite career paths (politicians, political staff, media, interest group personnel and bureaucrats), examine the impact of political elites on the quality of government, and whether this has changed over time. The project should provide significant benefits to academics via theoretical development of processes driving careers progression and establishing Australia as a benchmark case facilitating future international collaboration. It hopes to enhance the capacity of citizens and policy makers to assess the overall effectiveness of governance and the regulation of political life.