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Byzantine complexity, Geoffrey Palmer

Posted on August 31, 2015 by NZ Books

Democracy in New Zealand
Raymond Miller
Auckland University Press, $45.00,
ISBN 9781869408350

Democracy in New Zealand is a competent work by an experienced and well-published Professor of Politics at the University of Auckland. Clearly designed as a student text for an introductory course in politics in New Zealand universities, it reflects its author’s research interests in electoral systems, government formation and execution, political parties, interest groups, political representation and leadership. Miller’s more specialised comparative work with Ian Marsh, Democratic Decline and Democratic Renewal, was published in 2012.

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Geoffrey Palmer, Issue 111, Raymond Miller, Spring 2015
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Perseverance and poetry, Barry Gustafson

Posted on February 27, 2014 by NZ Books

Reform: A Memoir Geoffrey Palmer Victoria University Press, $80.00, ISBN 9780864739056 Sir Geoffrey Palmer had a distinguished career as a law professor in both New Zealand and the United States and as deputy prime minister and then prime minister in…

Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Barry Gustafson, Geoffrey Palmer, Issue 105, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Strong constitutions, Andrew Sharp

Posted on June 1, 2002 by NZ Books

Constitutional Conversations: Geoffrey Palmer Talks to Kim Hill on National Radio 1994-2001 Geoffrey Palmer Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 086473445X On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand ed Pat Moloney and Kerry Taylor University of Otago Press, $39.95,…

Tagged with: Andrew Sharp, Geoffrey Palmer, Issue 58, Kerry Taylor, Otago University Press, Pat Moloney, Victoria University Press, Winter 2002
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Pluralism rules, OK? Colin James

Posted on December 12, 1997 by NZ Books

New Zealand Politics in Transition Ed Raymond Miller Oxford University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 19 558339 6 Politics in New Zealand, 2ed Richard Mulgan Auckland University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 86940 171 9 Beyond the Two Party System. Political Representation,…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Cambridge University Press, Colin James, Geoffrey Palmer, Ian Marsh, Issue 31, Matthew Palmer, Oxford University Press, Raymond Miller, Richard Mulgan, Spring 1997
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Yes, but who let it become so? Colin James

Posted on December 1, 1992 by NZ Books

New Zealand’s Constitution in Crisis: Reforming Our Political System Geoffrey Palmer, John McIndoe, $34.95 Electoral Behaviour In New Zealand Martin Holland (ed), Oxford University Press, $29.95 New Zealand Politics in Perspective (3rd Edition) Hyam Gold (ed), Longman Paul, $49.95 Sir…

Tagged with: Colin James, Geoffrey Palmer, Hyam Gold, Issue 7, John McIndoe, Longman Paul, Martin Holland, Oxford University Press, Summer 1992
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

What about the workers? A historical view, John Roberts

Posted on April 1, 1991 by NZ Books

The Forgotten Worker: The Rural Wage Worker in Nineteenth Century New Zealand John E Martin, Allen and Unwin/Trade Union History Project, Wellington, 1990, $35.95 New Zealand Working People 1890-1990 Stevan Eldred-Grigg Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 1990, $34.95 Nuclear Free:…

Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Autumn 1991, David Lange, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Geoffrey Palmer, Issue 1, John E Martin, John McIndoe, John Roberts, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Trade Union History Project
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology