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Assoc. Prof. Ariadne Vromen

BSocSc NSW MA Syd. PhD NSW

Ariadne Vromen

Email

ariadne.vromen@sydney.edu.au

Phone

+61 2 9351 6602

Address

Room M289
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
H04 - Merewether
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

Dr Ariadne Vromen's research and teaching interests are in the field of political sociology and include: political participation, social movements, community organisations, political parties, political science research methods, internet politics and young people and politics.

Ariadne has completed extensive research into political participation undertaken by young people in Australia, including being co-author of a major report released by the federal National Youth Affairs Research Scheme in 2008. She has also co-authored several texts on Australian politics, including Powerscape: Contemporary Australian Politics. Ariadne is a member of the WUN group, Networking Young Citizens; and on the steering committee of the ECPR Standing Group, Forms of Participation.

Ariadne’s latest research projects include:

  • ‘Innovative democracy? Changing approaches to citizen engagement in Australia, the UK and Denmark’ an ARC Discovery Project 2012-2014, with David Marsh (ANU), Paul Fawcett (Sydney) and Henrik Bang (Copenhagen)
  • ‘Civic Networking in Comparative Perspective: Young people, civic engagement and social media in Australia and the USA’, a US Studies Centre funded project, with Michael Xenos of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ariadne is an enthusiastic political science teacher and was awarded a Vice Chancellor’s award for Outstanding Teaching in 2009. She has supervised PhD students with varied topics, including: the internet and youth participation policies; research utilisation in the government welfare sector; the Australian Greens; ALP-union relationships; online constructions of female politicians; and, environmental politics in Chile.

Currently she is an academic staff elected Fellow of the University of Sydney Senate (June 2011- May 2013).

Research Interests

  • Political sociology
  • Political participation
  • Comparative Government & Politics
  • Australian politics
  • Social movements
  • Young people and politics

BOOKS

  • Rodney Smith, Ariadne Vromen and Ian Cook (eds) (2012 Contemporary Politics in Australia: Theories, Issues and Debates, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.
  • Ariadne Vromen, Katharine Gelber and Anika Gauja (2009) Powerscape: Contemporary Australian Politics, 2nd edition, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
  • Johanna Bell, Ariadne Vromen and Philippa Collin (2008) Rewriting the rules for youth participation - Inclusion and diversity in government and community decision-making, National Youth Affairs Research Scheme, DEEWR, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra.
  • Rodney Smith, Ariadne Vromen and Ian Cook (2006) Keywords in Australian Politics, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.
  • Ariadne Vromen and Katharine Gelber (2005) Powerscape: Contemporary Australian Political Practice, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

  • Ariadne Vromen and William Coleman (2011) ‘Online movement mobilisation and electoral politics: the case of GetUp!’ Communication, Politics and Culture, 44(2).
  • Ariadne Vromen (2011) ‘Constructing Australian youth online: empowered but dutiful citizens?’ Information, Communication and Society 14(7), pp. 959-980.
  • Ben Spies-Butcher and Ariadne Vromen (2010) ‘Suburban Affairs: Groups and political communities across Sydney’ Australian Journal of Political Science 45(3), pp. 403-421.
  • Ariadne Vromen and Philippa Collin (2010) ‘Everyday youth participation? Contrasting views from Australian policymakers and young people’ Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 18 (1), pp. 97-112.
  • Ariadne Vromen and Anika Gauja (2009) ‘Protestors, parliamentarians, policy-makers: The experience of Australian Green MPs’ Journal of Legislative Studies 15(1), pp. 87-110.
  • Paul ‘tHart and Ariadne Vromen (2008) ‘A new era for think tanks in public policy? International trends, Australian realities’ Australian Journal of Public Administration 67(2), pp. 135-148.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2008) ‘Building virtual spaces: Young people, participation and the internet’ Australian Journal of Political Science, 43(1), pp. 79-97.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2007) ‘Australian young people’s participatory practices and internet use’ Information, Communication and Society 10(1), pp. 48-68.
  • Nick Turnbull and Ariadne Vromen (2006) ‘The Australian Greens: party organisation and political processes’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 52(3), pp. 455-470.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2005) ‘Political strategies of the Australian third sector’ Third Sector Review, 11(2), pp. 95-115.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2003) ‘Politicising Community: the private sphere and political participation’ Contemporary Politics 9(4), pp.371-395.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2003) ‘Traversing Time and Gender: Australian young people’s participation’ The Journal of Youth Studies 6(3), pp. 277-294.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2003) ‘‘People try to put us down..’ Participatory Citizenship of ‘GenerationX’’ Australian Journal of Political Science 38(1), pp. 79-99.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2003) ‘Community-based activism and change: the cases of Sydney and Toronto’ City and Community 2(1), pp. 47-69
  • Ariadne Vromen (1999) ‘Community Development Activism: A discussion of shifts in process in Sydney and Toronto’ Third Sector Review 5(1), 41-64.
  • Ariadne Vromen (1995) ‘Paul Keating is the Prime Minister, but who delivers the mail? A study of political knowledge amongst young people’ Australian Journal of Political Science 30(1), 74-90.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • Ariadne Vromen and Rodney Smith (2012) ‘Buying the Good Society: The Rise of Australian Political Consumerism’ in Catriona Elder and Keith Moore (eds) New Visions New Voices: Australian Studies in the Twenty-first Century Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2012) ‘Constructing Australian youth online: empowered but dutiful citizens?’ in Brian Loader and Dan Mercea (eds) Social Media and Democracy: Innovations in Participatory Politics, Routledge, London, pp. 190-206 (reprint of 2011 Information, Communication and Society article).
  • Ariadne Vromen (2012) ‘New Forms of Participation and Social Movements’ in Rodney Smith, Ariadne Vromen and Ian Cook (eds) Contemporary Politics in Australia: Theories, Issues and Debates, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2010) ‘Debating methods: rediscovering qualitative approaches’ David Marsh and Gerry Stoker (eds) Theory and Methods in Political Science, 3rd edition. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 249-266.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2010) 'Youth participation from the top-down: the perspectives of government and community sector decision-makers in Australia' in Jan van Deth and William Maloney (eds) New Participatory Dimensions in Civil Society: Professionalization and Individualized Collective Action Routledge, London
  • Ariadne Vromen (2008) ‘Political change and the internet in Australia: introducing GetUp’ Tapio Hayhtio and Jarmo Rinne (eds) Net working/Networking: Citizen initiated Internet Politics, Tampere University Press, Tampere, pp.103-126.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2007) ‘Australian young people’s participatory practices and internet use’ in Brian Loader (Ed) Young Citizens in the Digital Age: Political Engagement, Young People and New Media, Routledge, London, pp. 97-113. (reprint of 2007 Information, Communication and Society article).
  • Ariadne Vromen (2007) ‘Judging cyber-optimism: youth-led participation and the internet’ in Murray Print, Larry Saha and Kathy Edwards (Eds) Youth and Political Participation, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp.131-151
  • Ariadne Vromen and Nick Turnbull (2006) ‘The Australian Greens: Challengers to the cartel?’ in Ian Marsh (Ed) Australia’s Parties in Transition? The Australian Party System in an Era of Globalization, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 165-180.
  • Ariadne Vromen, Anika Gauja and Rodney Smith (2006) ‘Transforming parliament? independent and minor party women in NSW Politics’ in Deborah Brennan and Louise Chappell (eds) “No fit place for women”? Women and NSW Politics, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 131-154.
  • Ariadne Vromen (forthcoming) ‘Late Starters: membership growth and electoral consolidation in the Australian Greens’ in Wolfgang Rudig (Ed) Comparative Green Party Membership, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

PAPERS IN REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  • Ben Spies Butcher, Ariadne Vromen and Ian Marsh (2008) ‘Suburban affairs: political communities across Sydney’ in Proceedings of the Conference of the Australian Political Studies Association, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2005) ‘Who are the Australian Greens? Surveying the membership’ in Roberta Julian, Reannan Rottier and Rob White (eds) Proceedings of the Australian Sociological Association Conference, on CD-ROM, Section 13: Rural issues and the environment.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2004) ‘‘GenerationX’ retrieving net-based information: political participation in practice?’ Proceedings of the Australian Electronic Governance Conference University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
  • Ariadne Vromen (2002) ‘Community activism and change: the cases of Sydney and Toronto’ in Tony Eardley and Bruce Bradbury (Eds) Competing Visions: Refereed Proceedings of the National Social Policy Conference 2001, SPRC Report ½, University of New South Wales, Sydney, pp. 387-410.
  • Ariadne Vromen (1999) ‘Worker, Activist, Parent: Competing responsibilities and political participation’ in John Brookfield (Ed) Proceedings of the Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association, University of Sydney, pp.871-882.

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