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

by Keith Jackson and Alan McRobie

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 adoption of MMP, as well as the immediate consequences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367024276
• ISBN13: 9780367024277
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 366 Pages