New Zealand Votes: The 2002 General Election

by Jonathan Boston, Stephen Church, Stephen Levine, Elizabeth McLeay, Nigel S. Roberts

Overview

Offering perspectives from New Zealand's party officials and organizers, as well as from parliamentary candidates, this book focuses on campaigning, both nationwide and in individual electorates. The impact of the media and of political advertising on voter perceptions and electoral choice is examined; how New Zealand parties select their candidates, and with what results, is explained; and the role of leaders in New Zealand’s politics and election campaigning is described. Included are copies of the coalition agreement signed between Labour and the Progressive Coalition, the agreement signed between that coalition and its supporting party, and the subsequent accord agreed to by the coalition and the Greens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780864734686
Publisher:	Victoria University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2004
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Boston is a professor of public policy at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of New Zealand Under MMP: A New Politics?, From Campaign to Coalition, and Left Turn. Stephen Church is a political advisor, based in Parliament, for the United Future Party. Stephen Levine is a professor and the head of the school of history, philosophy, political science, and international relations at Victoria University of Wellington. Elizabeth McLeay is an associate professor in political science at Victoria University of Wellington. Nigel S. Roberts is an associate professor of political science at the Victoria University of Wellington.