New Zealand Votes Format: Paperback

Offering perspectives from New Zealand's party officials and organizers, as well as from parliamentary candidates, this book focuses on campaigning, both nationwide and in individual electorates. The impact of the media and of political advertising on voter perceptions and electoral choice is examined; how New Zealand parties select their candidates, and with what results, is explained; and the role of leaders in New Zealand’s politics and election campaigning is described. Included are copies of the coalition agreement signed between Labour and the Progressive Coalition, the agreement signed between that coalition and its supporting party, and the subsequent accord agreed to by the coalition and the Greens.

Jonathan Boston is a professor of public policy at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of New Zealand Under MMP: A New Politics?, From Campaign to Coalition, and Left Turn. Stephen Church is a political advisor, based in Parliament, for the United Future Party. Stephen Levine is a professor and the head of the school of history, philosophy, political science, and international relations at Victoria University of Wellington. Elizabeth McLeay is an associate professor in political science at Victoria University of Wellington. Nigel S. Roberts is an associate professor of political science at the Victoria University of Wellington.