The Trump effect in miniature: a case study of Geelong, Australia

The research problem that the collection of this data seeks to solve includes if celebrities make good mayors.  Given the rise in celebrities entering politics, this research will be beneficial to scholars who may wish to develop a new global typology for celebrity directly elected mayors and expand the discussion on directly elected mayors by further reviewing the effects of celebrity politics and legitimacy. Qualitative methods are used for this project and these involve reflection on the effects of words, implicit assumptions, and problematizations. With the exception of one CfG report, the data collected derives from publicly available policy documents, media releases, journalism, tweets to public threads, and posts to public forums. This data set includes policy documents, media releases, media articles, tweets to public threads, posts to public forums. published thesis and journal articles, public consultation conducted on Geelong's directly elected mayoral system, candidate information for the first and second mayoral elections, published biography “Mr Paparazzi and legislative documents relating to directly elected mayors. The majority of files are saved in PDF, DOC, CSV and JPEG formats.