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A study of politically enforced self-restraint, Janet McLean

Posted on September 11, 2018 by NZ Books

In Search of Consensus: New Zealand’s Electoral Act 1956 and its Constitutional Legacy Elizabeth McLeay Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776561841 As I write, the sitting president of the United States of America is reported to be seriously contemplating the…

Tagged with: Elizabeth McLeay, Issue 123, Janet McLean, Spring 2018, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

The other f-word, Rae Julian

Posted on March 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Rethinking Women and Politics: New Zealand and Comparative Perspectives Kate McMillan, John Leslie and Elizabeth McLeay (eds) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736109 Rethinking Women and Politics is based on a series of papers prepared for a Wellington workshop in…

Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Elizabeth McLeay, Issue 89, John Leslie, Kate McMillan, Rae Julian, Victoria University Press
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Electoral debrief, Ruth Laugesen

Posted on June 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Left Turn: The New Zealand General Election of 1999 ed Jonathan Boston, Stephen Church, Stephen Levine, Elizabeth McLeay & Nigel S Roberts Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734042 Up the hill from Parliament, a clutch of Victoria University’s political scientists…

Tagged with: Elizabeth McLeay, Issue 48, Jonathan Boston, June 2001, Nigel S Roberts, Stephen Church, Stephen Levine, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Voter-watching, Ruth Butterworth

Posted on October 27, 1999 by NZ Books

New Zealand Politics and Social Patterns: Selected Works by Robert Chapman ed Elizabeth McLeay Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 86473 361 5 Myths are the stories we tell each other about ourselves. Neither true nor false in any absolute…

Tagged with: Elizabeth McLeay, Issue 40, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology

Dampening expectations, John Henderson

Posted on August 8, 1996 by NZ Books

New Zealand Under MMP: A New Politics? Jonathan Boston, Stephen Levine, Elizabeth McLeay, Nigel Roberts Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books, $34.95 ISBN 1869401387 For the next few years New Zealand will be a fascinating social laboratory for political scientists interested…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, Elizabeth McLeay, Issue 24, Jonathan Boston, Nigel Roberts, Stephen Levine
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Inside the black box, Andrew Ladley

Posted on August 27, 1995 by NZ Books

The Cabinet and Political Power in New Zealand Elizabeth McLeay Oxford University Press, $39.95 ISBN 0 19 558 312 4 As New Zealand squares for the next general election many candidates and their party leaders will be reaching for…

Tagged with: Andrew Ladley, Elizabeth McLeay, Issue 19, Oxford University Press, Spring 1995
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review