This article is a brief report on constitutional developments and cases in New Zealand in 2017. The authors discuss several topics including the operation of New Zealand’s Mixed-Member Proportional voting system, New Zealand’s constitutional commitment to liberal democracy, and the issue of prisoner voting
This research paper provides a brief history of the parliamentary voting systems used in New Zealand...
This article is the foreword to Volume 39, Issue 1 of the UNSW Law Journal. The article begins by co...
Within a global context, local government in New Zealand occupies an enviable position: it enjoys bo...
This article is a brief report on constitutional developments and cases in New Zealand in 2017. The ...
This article addresses one particular feature of New Zealand’s constitution: the continuing combinat...
For a comparatively small and geographically peripheral nation, New Zealand enjoyed a moment of psep...
The story of liberal democracy over the last half century has been a triumphant one in many ways, wi...
New Zealand's political landscape experienced a seismic shift in 1993, when the country replaced the...
This paper examines the impact of New Zealand’s 1996 adoption of a mixed member proportional (MMP) v...
New Zealand’s 2014 election “did its job”, in the sense that it permitted a government to form and f...
This article considers the constitutional question of whether prisoners should be permitted to vote....
The question whether individuals sentenced to terms of imprisonment should be able to vote has arise...
Recent weeks have seen large scale student protests over the Liberal Democrats’ ‘betrayal’ over tuit...
This article discusses a specific, and relatively narrow, issue: Whether the move to a mixed member ...
New Zealand’s Electoral Act 1956, and in particular the entrenched (or “reserved”) provisions it int...
This research paper provides a brief history of the parliamentary voting systems used in New Zealand...
This article is the foreword to Volume 39, Issue 1 of the UNSW Law Journal. The article begins by co...
Within a global context, local government in New Zealand occupies an enviable position: it enjoys bo...
This article is a brief report on constitutional developments and cases in New Zealand in 2017. The ...
This article addresses one particular feature of New Zealand’s constitution: the continuing combinat...
For a comparatively small and geographically peripheral nation, New Zealand enjoyed a moment of psep...
The story of liberal democracy over the last half century has been a triumphant one in many ways, wi...
New Zealand's political landscape experienced a seismic shift in 1993, when the country replaced the...
This paper examines the impact of New Zealand’s 1996 adoption of a mixed member proportional (MMP) v...
New Zealand’s 2014 election “did its job”, in the sense that it permitted a government to form and f...
This article considers the constitutional question of whether prisoners should be permitted to vote....
The question whether individuals sentenced to terms of imprisonment should be able to vote has arise...
Recent weeks have seen large scale student protests over the Liberal Democrats’ ‘betrayal’ over tuit...
This article discusses a specific, and relatively narrow, issue: Whether the move to a mixed member ...
New Zealand’s Electoral Act 1956, and in particular the entrenched (or “reserved”) provisions it int...
This research paper provides a brief history of the parliamentary voting systems used in New Zealand...
This article is the foreword to Volume 39, Issue 1 of the UNSW Law Journal. The article begins by co...
Within a global context, local government in New Zealand occupies an enviable position: it enjoys bo...