New Zealand Adopts Proportional Representation: Accident? Design? Evolution?

ISBN-13: 9780367024277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 366 str.

Keith Jackson; Alan McRobie

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Keith Jackson, Alan McRobie