Voters' vengeance : the 1990 election in New Zealand and the fate of the fourth Labour government /

Voters' vengeance : the 1990 election in New Zealand and the fate of the fourth Labour government /

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Author / Creator:	Vowles, Jack, 1950-
Imprint:	Auckland : Auckland University Press, 1993.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	New Zealand. -- Parliament -- Elections, 1990. New Zealand Labour Party. New Zealand Labour Party. New Zealand. -- Parliament. Elections -- New Zealand. Elections. Politics and government New Zealand -- Politics and government -- 1972- New Zealand. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11213970

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Other authors / contributors:	Aimer, Peter.
ISBN:	9781869407124 1869407121 9781775586852 1775586855 9781775582311 1775582310 186940078X 9781869400781
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-259) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	The 1990 election produced New Zealand's most dramatic parliamentary transformation for over fifty years. Labour plunged from 56 seats to 29, while National rose from 41 to 67. Rubbing salt into Labour's deep electoral wounds, Jim Anderton, who had left Labour to establish and lead the NewLabour Party, retained the ninety-seventh seat. It was Labour's worst result by far since 1931. Meanwhile a new party, the Greens, emerged as New Zealand's largest and most popular 'third' party. Many people, disappointed and disillusioned with the Labour Government, justified their participation in its defeat as an act of revenge. Yet if Labour lost because voters abandoned it in large numbers, National did not win because it received massive support and its huge parliamentary majority was partly a quirk of New Zealand's first-past-the-post electoral system. This book documents the election in a way that has never been done before in New Zealand. It recalls the major landmarks of the Fourth Labour Government's eventful term, but does so largely from the perspective of the voters themselves. It draws on the information contained in over 2000 replies to a national random survey of New Zealanders just after the election. It maps the movement of voters since 1984 and it shows how different groups of people responded to the wide range of economic, social, environmental and gender issues that emerged during the often stormy years of the Lange-Palmer-Moore period. Many of the changes of this time were not unique, however, but were part of an international process: the authors have also linked the political responses of New Zealanders to international patterns and trends in voting behaviour. An important and illuminating study.
Other form:	Print version: Vowles, Jack, 1950- Voters' vengeance. Auckland : Auckland University Press, 1993

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Summary:	The 1990 election in New Zealand produced the biggest landslide in 50 years, and Voters' Vengeance uses comprehensive survey research to explore why New Zealand voters reacted in this way. The answers to over 2000 questionnaires allow the sophisticated analysis of voter behaviour. The authors discuss the increasing volatility of New Zealand politics, the shifts in party commitment, reactions to Rogernomics and other Labour policies, the growth of third-party support, and leadership issues such as the environment, defence and the role of women. Tables, graphs and figures are an essential aspect of the study and they are carefully and clearly presented to show the changing character of New Zealand political opinion.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) : illustrations
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-259) and index.
ISBN:	9781869407124 1869407121 9781775586852 1775586855 9781775582311 1775582310 186940078X 9781869400781