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A poverty of compassion, Rod Oram
Child Poverty in New Zealand Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple Bridget Williams Books, $50.00, ISBN 9781927247860 “New Zealand has the necessary resources to reduce child poverty, and equitable and efficient ways to secure these resources are available. The question is…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 108, Jonathan Boston, Rod Oram, Simon Chapple, Summer 2014
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Electoral debrief, Ruth Laugesen
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
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Art of the state, Jane Kelsey
Redesigning the Welfare State in New Zealand: Problems, Policies, Prospects eds Jonathan Boston, Paul Dalziel, Susan St John Oxford University Press, $45.00, ISBN 019 558 3736 6 A Super Future?: The Price of Growing Older in New Zealand Anne Else…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Issue 40, Jane Kelsey, Jonathan Boston, Oxford University Press, Paul Dalziel, Susan St John, Tandem Press
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Mixed Message Politics, Geoffrey Thompson
From Campaign to Coalition: the 1996 MMP Election Jonathan Boston, Stephen Levine, Elizabeth Hickey and Nigel Roberts (ed) Dunmore Press, $29.95 ISBN 0 86469314 1 Voters’ Victory? New Zealand‘s First Election under Proportional Representation Jack Vowles, Peter Aimer, Susan Banducci,…
Undesigned revolution, David Caygill
Public Management: The New Zealand Model Jonathan Boston, John Martin, June Pallot, Pat Walsh Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 19 558325 6 Later this year the World Bank is holding a seminar here on “The New Zealand Model”. As…
Tagged with: Autumn 1996, David Caygill, Issue 25, John Martin, Jonathan Boston, June Pallot, Otago University Press, Pat Walsh
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Dampening expectations, John Henderson
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
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Radical ‑ but what is its value? John Halligan
The State under Contract Jonathan Boston (ed) Bridget Williams Books, $39.95 ISBN 0 908912 71 4 Public sector reform has been traumatising many countries for more than a decade. Because of the disruptions and the challenges of comprehensive reform to…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 18, John Halligan, Jonathan Boston, Winter 1995
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Electoral debate, Jonathan Boston
Taking it to the People? The New Zealand Electoral Referendum Debate, Alan McRobie (ed), Hazard Press, $29.95 This book is about the continuing debate over electoral reform in New Zealand. It brings together a wide array of material (all of…
Tagged with: Alan McRobie, Hazard Press, Issue 9, Jonathan Boston, Winter 1993
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology