Lead: Australian National University
This project will create the Australian and New Zealand Leaders, Elections and Democracy (ANZLEAD) data asset. This asset will bring together a number of political and social science data sources into a comprehensive, integrated collection covering four key populations required for understanding the dynamics of political activity in Australia and New Zealand: The voting public (voters, citizens and the Australian and New Zealand population); Political elites (candidates, parliamentary members and bureaucrats); Elections (federal and state election results and enrolments); and Electorates (geographic and administrative characteristics of Federal and State electorates). These collections are national in scope, extensive in time scale (ranging from Federation to the present day), and cover a significant breadth of the political science discipline. Australian and New Zealand political science research has a long history of empirical research using national data sources for answering important questions about the nature of the Australian political and social systems.