Research Catalog

Title

New Zealand adopts proportional representation : accident? design? evolution? / Keith Jackson, Alan McRobie.

Author

Jackson, William Keith, 1928-

Publication

Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

McRobie, Alan.

Description

xiii, 366 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• New Zealand > Constitution
• New Zealand > Politics and government
• Proportional representation > New Zealand

Genre/Form

Constitution.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-353) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Setting: Constitutional Evolution -- Early Electoral Experiments -- Labour Party Policy and Proportional Representation -- The National Party and Constitutional Reform -- The Royal Commission: Recommendations and Consequences -- Political Obfuscation -- The Campaign for Electoral Reform -- The Maori Dimension -- The People Decide: The 1992 and 1993 Electoral Referendums -- The Transition to MMP -- Consequences and Causes -- The Development of the Electoral Act 1993.

ISBN

1840144726 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^^98024974^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library