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 It is an
axiom of political science that whatever promises political parties
may make about electoral reform, as governments they do not kick
away the ladder that brought them to power. This book seeks to
discover how and why that axiom was disregarded in New Zealand,
and, above all, how a reputedly conservative party was ultimately
responsible for the change. It provides an object lesson in both
how, and how not to change an electoral system and should be of
particular interest in countries with simple plurality electoral
systems.
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