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Best of all possible worlds? Stephen Levine
Promises Promises: 80 Years Of Wooing New Zealand Voters Claire Robinson Massey University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9780995109544 When Jacinda Ardern stated in 2017 that, if elected, Labour would move to “abolish child poverty”, this resonated as an ambitious goal, enlightened,…
Tagged with: Claire Robinson, Issue 128, Massey University Press, Stephen Levine, Summer 2019
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Placing the monarchy, Stephen Levine
This Realm of New Zealand: The Sovereign, the Governor-General, the Crown Alison Quentin-Baxter and Janet McLean Auckland University Press, $65.00, ISBN 9781869408756 To say that this book adds considerably to the literature about the monarchy in New Zealand would be…
Tagged with: Alison Quentin-Baxter, Auckland University Press, Issue 123, Janet McLean, Spring 2018, Stephen Levine
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Stodge, serious analysis and spicy bits, Bryan Gould
Moments of Truth: The New Zealand General Election of 2014 Jon Johansson and Stephen Levine (eds) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781776560493 The 2014 general election campaign was, on the face of it, one of the most dramatic of modern…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Issue 113, Jon Johansson, Stephen Levine, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The impudent what-if, Geoff Cush
New Zealand as it Might Have Been Stephen Levine (ed) Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 0864735456 “Counterfactual” is the term preferred by the 15 writers here, who are mostly historians or political scientists, and mostly based at Victoria University of…
Tagged with: Geoff Cush, Issue 79, Spring 2007, Stephen Levine, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Fiction, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
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
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,…
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
Not McCarthy, Stephen Levine
Winston First: The unauthorised account of Winston Peters’ career Martin Hames Random House, $29.95 ISBN 186941 2575 A Whitcoulls shopping guide giving front-page billing to Ruth Richardson’s Making A Difference perhaps inadvertently placed it right alongside a book titled The…
Tagged with: Issue 21, Martin Hames, Random House, Stephen Levine, Winston Peters
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review