1st Edition
New Zealand Adopts Proportional Representation Accident? Design? Evolution?
374 Pages
by
Routledge
380 Pages
by
Routledge
374 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1998, this volume is based upon the files of the Royal Commission on the Electoral System plus extensive interviews with the Commissioners, cabinet ministers, MPs and officials, as well as leaders of the principal pressure groups. It seeks to place this highly important change in context, reviewing both the long-term trends and shorter term considerations which led to the... Read more
1. The Setting: Constitutional Evolution. 2. Early Electoral Experiments. 3. Labour Party Policy and Proportional Representation. 4. The National Party and Constitutional Reform. 5. The Royal Commission: Recommendations and Consequences. 6. Political Obfuscation. 7. The Campaign for Electoral Reform. 8. The Maori Dimension. 9. The People Decide: The 1992 and 1993 Electoral Referendums. 10. The Transition to MMP. 11. Consequences and Causes.
Biography
Keith Jackson, Alan McRobie
