New Zealand Votes: The General Election of 2002Offering 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. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Going Early | 28 |
Two Million Voters in Search of a Rationale | 45 |
Leadership and the Campaign | 59 |
The Electoral Commission and the 2002 General Election | 75 |
The Green Campaign | 98 |
Nationals Campaign | 111 |
The New Zealand First Campaign | 118 |
The Party Vote Populism and Political Advertising in 2002 | 235 |
Newspaper Coverage of the | 254 |
Billboard Battles in 2002 | 270 |
The 2002 Parliament | 283 |
Electoral Behaviour | 309 |
Government Formation after the 2002 General Election | 333 |
Notes | 361 |
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