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When power changes hands there are winners and losers: those who gain and those who relinquish power. Much of this volume is oriented towards the former: the acquiring of, and adaptation to, government and leadership office. This chapter, however, focuses on what happens on the down side of the exchange of power. It explores the ‘afterlives’ of chief executives – the trajectories of those who have surrendered the reins of national government in Australia. With the exception of the United States (Norton Smith and Walch, 1990; Skidmore, 2004; Updegrove, 2006), systematic studies of the fate of former leaders in representative democracies are rare.
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Strangio, P. (2011). ‘The Tideless Pond that Seemed Waiting for Me’:1 The Afterlife of Australian Prime Ministers. In: Hart, P., Uhr, J. (eds) How Power Changes Hands. Understanding Governance series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306431_12
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