Jennifer Curtin
Biographic Data
| ID | 352787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Curtin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Curtin |
| SIGNATURE | CURTIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3286-938X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 179 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Moving beyond “Contingent: Descriptive Representation by and for Indigenous Peoples
When Jane Mansbridge’s (1999) article was first submitted, more than 80% of the world’s parliaments featured less than 20% women (IPU 2015). Calculating the parliamentary presence of ethnic and cultural minorities and Indigenous peoples has proved more difficult (Protsyk 2010). This is despite the adoption of two United Nations Declarations, on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (1992) and o…
Sex, gender, and promotion in executive office: Cabinet careers in the world of Westminster
This article provides the first analysis of gendered promotion issues for cabinet ministers using most‐similar systems design for three “Westminster‐style” governments: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Using individual‐level data and controlling for biographical, institutional, and country effects we find, in common with earlier literature, that women are more likely to be given less prestigious cabinet posts and be assigned to “feminine” port…
Getting straight to the source: Who evaluates the leadership skills of premiers in Canada and Australia
Journalists have the power to shape the public’s perception of new premiers. They also share that power with the sources they interview. Sourcing is therefore important when making claims about the news media’s role in reproducing gender biases in representations of political leaders. We examine the question of sourcing through an analysis of newspaper coverage of 22 newly elected women and men subnational government leaders in Australia and Cana…
Representations of Political Leadership Qualities in News Coverage of Australian and Canadian Government Leaders
How do the media depict the leadership abilities of government leaders, and in what ways are these depictions gendered? Does the focus of leadership evaluations change over time, reflecting the increased presence of women in top leadership roles? To answer these questions, we examined news coverage of 22 subnational government leaders in Australia and Canada, countries in which a significant number of women have achieved the premiership at the st…
Works Well with Others: Gendered Mediation of Collaborative Leadership Skills
This research note reports an intriguing finding, reached inductively from textual analysis of newspaper coverage of the leadership attributes of 22 women and men premiers in Australia and Canada. When introducing these newly selected subnational government leaders to the public, journalists articulated their capacity to work well with others as an important leadership competency. Women and men premiers alike were described as inclusive, concilia…
Gender novelty and personalized news coverage in Australia and Canada
Are female government leaders more likely than their male counterparts to see their gendered identities and personal lives profiled in news coverage of their ascents? Are non-novel women leaders—those who are the second in their jurisdiction to achieve the top political job—less likely to experience media personalization than did the women who preceded them in office? By analyzing newspaper coverage of 20 Australian and Canadian premiers, ten wom…
Invoking the idealized family to assess political leadership and legitimacy: News coverage of Australian and Canadian premiers
Conventional wisdom holds that women politicians confront a parenting dilemma. Those with children are questioned about their ability to balance parental roles with political responsibilities, but child-free women are regarded as unable to relate to “ordinary” families or perform well in “feminine” policy areas. As both women and men are now balancing parenthood with politics, the time is ripe to re-investigate how cultural ideas about family lif…
Real-time associations between young adults’ momentary pain and prescription opioid misuse intentions in daily life
Managing pain has been identified (mainly through retrospective reports) as a robust motivator for individuals engaging in prescription opioid misuse. However, surprisingly little work has directly examined whether momentary pain experiences are associated with prescription opioid misuse in daily life. Participants included 297 young-adult college students recruited on the basis of recent prescription drug misuse. Ecological momentary assessment …
A consensus-based transparency checklist
We present a consensus-based checklist to improve and document the transparency of research reports in social and behavioural research. An accompanying online application allows users to complete the form and generate a report that they can submit with their manuscript or post to a public repository
Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper
Double Disillusion: The 2016 Australian Federal Election
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the 2016 Australian federal election. Won by the Liberal–National Coalition by the slimmest of margins, the result created a climate of political uncertainty that threatened the government’s lower house majority. While the campaign might have lacked the theatre of previous elections, it provides significant insights into the contemporary political and policy challenges facing Australian democracy and…
Linear mixed-effects models and the analysis of nonindependent data: A unified framework to analyze categorical and continuous independent variables that vary within-subjects and/or within-items.
In this article we address a number of important issues that arise in the analysis of nonindependent data. Such data are common in studies in which predictors vary within "units" (e.g., within-subjects, within-classrooms). Most researchers analyze categorical within-unit predictors with repeated-measures ANOVAs, but continuous within-unit predictors with linear mixed-effects models (LMEMs). We show that both types of predictor variables can be an…
Double Disillusion
"This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the 2016 Australian federal election. Won by the Liberal?National Coalition by the slimmest of margins, the result created a climate of political uncertainty that threatened the government?s lower house majority. While the campaign might have lacked the theatre of previous elections, it provides significant insights into the contemporary political and policy challenges facing Australian democracy an…
Organising for a More Diverse Political Science: Australia and new zealand
Until the 1970s neither Australian nor New Zealand political studies gave much attention to issues of diversity. This reflected both the makeup of the profession and the majoritarian nature of the political systems that was the major object of its attention. We argue that feminist organising on both sides of the Tasman had led to greater pluralism within the discipline. Using a comparative institutional approach, we trace the relationship between…
Introduction: Women, Sport and History in Australia and New Zealand
Raewyn Connell eloquently states that gender is not a fixed system, but a complex, historically changing, and tension-ridden structure of relationships, always open to change.1 As such, historians
Before the ‘Black Ferns’: Tracing the Beginnings of Women’s Rugby in New Zealand
Women’s rugby union in New Zealand has increased in popularity over the past decade, preceded by two decades of dominance at the international level and much activism to have the women’s game recognized and supported, nationally and provincially. However, as this paper reveals, women’s engagement with the game, as players, began more than 100 years before the Black Ferns won their first international tournament. Through an examination of several …
Specialised Parliamentary Bodies and the Quality of Women's Substantive Representation: A Comparative Analysis of Belgium, United Kingdom and New Zealand
This comparative analysis investigates formal parliamentary bodies ‘for women’ and informal networks and parliamentary groups (‘gender equality bodies’). These are evaluated to determine the extent to which they contribute to a ‘good’ collective process of women's substantive representation. Focusing on three countries, Belgium, the United Kingdom (UK) and New Zealand (NZ), we explore which venues are responsive to women and which are inclusive o…
More than Male-Gazing: Reflections on Female Fans of Rugby Union in New Zealand, 1870–1920
The presence of women in and around rugby union in New Zealand remains on the margins of the histories of the game of rugby and the more social and cultural histories that explore rugby’s impact on the formation of a New Zealand national identity. Yet, as this article demonstrates, women have long since engaged with rugby union in ways that may well have assisted in its ascendancy and ultimate claiming of the title of New Zealand’s national game.…
The prime ministership of Julia Gillard
Women and Political Science in New Zealand: The State of the Discipline
This article examines the state of the political science discipline in New Zealand, focusing on the numbers of women in the profession, the representation of women in the discipline’s journal, and the place of gender in the political science curriculum. While women in New Zealand political science have been active as a community for at least 30 years, there has been no systematic review documenting the status of women in the profession. This arti…
Does Federalism Matter? Evaluating State Architecture and Family and Domestic Violence Policy in Australia and New Zealand
Does federalism make a difference to policy making in the area of family and domestic violence (FDV)? This article explores this question through a comparison of Australia and New Zealand whose state architecture aside from federalism is very similar. It argues that Australian federalism has provided laboratories for innovative policy making and the continual articulation of a progressive policy response to FDV. By contrast, in New Zealand subnat…
Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline. Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering Practices and Feminist Theory
Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline. Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering Practices and Feminist Theory. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2010. ISBN 978–0–9806723–9–8. With the adoption of the ‘gende
Women in Executive Power: A Global Overview
1. Introduction Gretchen Bauer and Manon Tremblay 2. Arab States Vania Carvalho Pinto 3. South and Southeast Asia Andrea Fleschenberg 4. Oceania Jennifer Curtin and Marian Sawer 5. Central and Eastern Europe Maxime Forest 6. Sub-Saharan Africa Gretchen Bauer 7. Latin America Tiffany D. Barnes and Mark P. Jones 8. North America Farida Jalalzai and Manon Tremblay 9. Western Europe Fiona Buckley and Yvonne Galligan 10. Nordic Countries Christina Ber…
Counting the costs of coalition: The case of New Zealand’s small parties
Unlike most coalition studies, which are primarily concerned with the major parties, this article focuses on the costs of coalition for small parties. As the experiences of a number of countries demonstrate, the costs of coalition are unevenly shared, with major parties generally incurring low costs and small parties high costs. This article will focus on the impact of coalitions on New Zealand’s small parliamentary parties by considering whether…
Negotiating coalitions: Comparative perspectives
Recent elections in the English-speaking world have thrown up results that were both unpredictable and history-making. In particular, the advent of multi-party and minority government in Britain and Australia, neither of which have proportional representation, raises questions about the capacity of major parties to remain dominant, and the place of minor parties and independents in the future. Here we argue that while the idiosyncrasies of the Au…
Women, Political Leadership and Substantive Representation: The Case of New Zealand
The descriptive representation of women in cabinet is a necessary but not sufficient condition to achieve women-friendly policy outcomes. Rather, substantive representation of women by women political leaders also requires women’s political activism. In this article, I explore the idea that institutionalised separate spaces are important sites of labour women’s activism which promote and sustain women’s policy leadership and the substantive repre…
Sex, gender, and promotion in executive office: Cabinet careers in the world of Westminster
This article provides the first analysis of gendered promotion issues for cabinet ministers using most‐similar systems design for three “Westminster‐style” governments: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Using individual‐level data and controlling for biographical, institutional, and country effects we find, in common with earlier literature, that women are more likely to be given less prestigious cabinet posts and be assigned to “feminine” port…
Does Federalism Matter? Evaluating State Architecture and Family and Domestic Violence Policy in Australia and New Zealand
Does federalism make a difference to policy making in the area of family and domestic violence (FDV)? This article explores this question through a comparison of Australia and New Zealand whose state architecture aside from federalism is very similar. It argues that Australian federalism has provided laboratories for innovative policy making and the continual articulation of a progressive policy response to FDV. By contrast, in New Zealand subnat…
Women and Political Science in New Zealand: The State of the Discipline
This article examines the state of the political science discipline in New Zealand, focusing on the numbers of women in the profession, the representation of women in the discipline’s journal, and the place of gender in the political science curriculum. While women in New Zealand political science have been active as a community for at least 30 years, there has been no systematic review documenting the status of women in the profession. This arti…
Specialised Parliamentary Bodies and the Quality of Women's Substantive Representation: A Comparative Analysis of Belgium, United Kingdom and New Zealand
This comparative analysis investigates formal parliamentary bodies ‘for women’ and informal networks and parliamentary groups (‘gender equality bodies’). These are evaluated to determine the extent to which they contribute to a ‘good’ collective process of women's substantive representation. Focusing on three countries, Belgium, the United Kingdom (UK) and New Zealand (NZ), we explore which venues are responsive to women and which are inclusive o…
Gender novelty and personalized news coverage in Australia and Canada
Are female government leaders more likely than their male counterparts to see their gendered identities and personal lives profiled in news coverage of their ascents? Are non-novel women leaders—those who are the second in their jurisdiction to achieve the top political job—less likely to experience media personalization than did the women who preceded them in office? By analyzing newspaper coverage of 20 Australian and Canadian premiers, ten wom…
Feminism and Unionism in Sweden
The prime ministership of Julia Gillard
Representations of Political Leadership Qualities in News Coverage of Australian and Canadian Government Leaders
How do the media depict the leadership abilities of government leaders, and in what ways are these depictions gendered? Does the focus of leadership evaluations change over time, reflecting the increased presence of women in top leadership roles? To answer these questions, we examined news coverage of 22 subnational government leaders in Australia and Canada, countries in which a significant number of women have achieved the premiership at the st…
Organising for a More Diverse Political Science: Australia and new zealand
Until the 1970s neither Australian nor New Zealand political studies gave much attention to issues of diversity. This reflected both the makeup of the profession and the majoritarian nature of the political systems that was the major object of its attention. We argue that feminist organising on both sides of the Tasman had led to greater pluralism within the discipline. Using a comparative institutional approach, we trace the relationship between…
Analyzing Institutional Persistence: The Case of the Ministry of Women's Affairs in Aotearoa/New Zealand
The Ministry of Women's Affairs in Aotearoa/New Zealand was established as a stand-alone agency in 1986. It has remained institutionally intact for more than 20 years, unlike many women's policy agencies that have been downsized or eliminated. It has survived significant economic and state sector restructuring and weathered the extension of neoliberal orientations into the reform of social policy. We analyze New Zealand's version of state feminis…
Public policy in Australia and New Zealand: The new global context
Australia and New Zealand have shared in the current wave of interest in globalisation. Indeed, it may well be that some of the dimensions of globalisation are more pressing for nation-states like Australia and New Zealand. Both nations have relatively small economies and neither fits particularly easily into trans-national, regionally based groupings of nation-states that offer one way for smaller economies to adjust to global change. Yet where …
Invoking the idealized family to assess political leadership and legitimacy: News coverage of Australian and Canadian premiers
Conventional wisdom holds that women politicians confront a parenting dilemma. Those with children are questioned about their ability to balance parental roles with political responsibilities, but child-free women are regarded as unable to relate to “ordinary” families or perform well in “feminine” policy areas. As both women and men are now balancing parenthood with politics, the time is ripe to re-investigate how cultural ideas about family lif…
A consensus-based transparency checklist
We present a consensus-based checklist to improve and document the transparency of research reports in social and behavioural research. An accompanying online application allows users to complete the form and generate a report that they can submit with their manuscript or post to a public repository
Why voters prefer coalitions: Rationality or norms
This article asks if voters might prefer coalitions or single-party governments for ideological or normative reasons. Of course, they might prefer coalition to single-party governments for many reasons, one set clustering around the rational preferences of partisans largely in terms of expectations of electoral success or failure, and the other around the influence of norms or ideology. In terms of ‘rationality’, small-party supporters should wan…
Works Well with Others: Gendered Mediation of Collaborative Leadership Skills
This research note reports an intriguing finding, reached inductively from textual analysis of newspaper coverage of the leadership attributes of 22 women and men premiers in Australia and Canada. When introducing these newly selected subnational government leaders to the public, journalists articulated their capacity to work well with others as an important leadership competency. Women and men premiers alike were described as inclusive, concilia…
Negotiating coalitions: Comparative perspectives
Recent elections in the English-speaking world have thrown up results that were both unpredictable and history-making. In particular, the advent of multi-party and minority government in Britain and Australia, neither of which have proportional representation, raises questions about the capacity of major parties to remain dominant, and the place of minor parties and independents in the future. Here we argue that while the idiosyncrasies of the Au…
More than Male-Gazing: Reflections on Female Fans of Rugby Union in New Zealand, 1870–1920
The presence of women in and around rugby union in New Zealand remains on the margins of the histories of the game of rugby and the more social and cultural histories that explore rugby’s impact on the formation of a New Zealand national identity. Yet, as this article demonstrates, women have long since engaged with rugby union in ways that may well have assisted in its ascendancy and ultimate claiming of the title of New Zealand’s national game.…
Counting the costs of coalition: The case of New Zealand’s small parties
Unlike most coalition studies, which are primarily concerned with the major parties, this article focuses on the costs of coalition for small parties. As the experiences of a number of countries demonstrate, the costs of coalition are unevenly shared, with major parties generally incurring low costs and small parties high costs. This article will focus on the impact of coalitions on New Zealand’s small parliamentary parties by considering whether…
Gender differences in emotional and overt/covert aggressive responses to stress
We examined the role of stress exposure on gender differences in hostile (emotional and behavioral) reactions within the context of a laboratory paradigm. Aggressive behavior was indexed via the intensity (overt) and the duration (covert) of putative shocks delivered to a confederate. Half of the participants were exposed to a chronic stressor (high stress) and half were not (low stress). Participants' emotional responses were measured via self‐r…
Global rankings and domestic realities: Women, work and policy in Australia and New Zealand
At the beginning of the 1990s, according to the UN gender-sensitive Human Development Index, Australia was ranked sixth and New Zealand was eighth. A decade later, Australia ranked second while New Zealand ranked seventeenth. In other words, according to the United Nations, gender equality is more advanced in Australia than New Zealand. Yet a closer look reveals that in recent years New Zealand's public policy developments have been significantly…
New Public Management Meets Civic Discontent? TheAustralian Public Service in 1999
The new millennium brings with it an irresistible urge to reflect. In particular, to reflect on the social, political and economic dimensions of our lives. We recently revisited our constitutional beginnings and chose to retain what our forefathers bequeathed to us. Yet, by contrast, with respect to the way our nation state is administered, we have witnessed significant change. We now have a public service that our forefathers would barely recogn…
A Plurality of Feminisms
(1993). A Plurality of Feminisms. Political Science: Vol. 45, Women and Politics in New Zealand, pp. 6-26
Moving beyond “Contingent: Descriptive Representation by and for Indigenous Peoples
When Jane Mansbridge’s (1999) article was first submitted, more than 80% of the world’s parliaments featured less than 20% women (IPU 2015). Calculating the parliamentary presence of ethnic and cultural minorities and Indigenous peoples has proved more difficult (Protsyk 2010). This is despite the adoption of two United Nations Declarations, on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (1992) and o…
Real-time associations between young adults’ momentary pain and prescription opioid misuse intentions in daily life
Managing pain has been identified (mainly through retrospective reports) as a robust motivator for individuals engaging in prescription opioid misuse. However, surprisingly little work has directly examined whether momentary pain experiences are associated with prescription opioid misuse in daily life. Participants included 297 young-adult college students recruited on the basis of recent prescription drug misuse. Ecological momentary assessment …
A Plurality of Feminisms
(1993). A Plurality of Feminisms. Political Science: Vol. 45, Women and Politics in New Zealand, pp. 6-26
Feminism and Unionism in Sweden
New Public Management Meets Civic Discontent? TheAustralian Public Service in 1999
The new millennium brings with it an irresistible urge to reflect. In particular, to reflect on the social, political and economic dimensions of our lives. We recently revisited our constitutional beginnings and chose to retain what our forefathers bequeathed to us. Yet, by contrast, with respect to the way our nation state is administered, we have witnessed significant change. We now have a public service that our forefathers would barely recogn…
Development and validation of a brief form of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire.
WebCT and online tutorials: New possibilities for student interaction
Computer mediated communications technologies are being recommended increasingly within the university environment as a means to enhance flexible delivery and student learning. This paper presents my trial use of the bulletin board within WebCT as a tutorial environment in which to discuss prescribed readings. I investigate whether a computer based tutorial setting can be used as a tool for learning, in addition to being a tool for delivery of in…
Women and Proportional Representation in Australia and New Zealand
This article examines the recent impact of proportional representation on women's parliamentary presence in four Australasian political systems: New Zealand, the Australian Senate, the lower house in the state of Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory's (ACT) Legislative Assembly. The question asked is: Why have women not achieved an equal presence in these parliaments, given the presence of proportional electoral systems? While it is evid…
Gender differences in the negative affective priming of aggressive behavior
The negative affective priming of aggression was examined across different aversive contexts (general stress exposure and frustration) with a laboratory aggression paradigm that measured the intensity of shocks participants delivered to a putative employee. Participants' emotional responses were gauged via startle eyeblink reactions and self-report mood ratings. Aside from gender differences in overall aggression, men but not women exposed to gen…
Public policy in Australia and New Zealand: The new global context
Australia and New Zealand have shared in the current wave of interest in globalisation. Indeed, it may well be that some of the dimensions of globalisation are more pressing for nation-states like Australia and New Zealand. Both nations have relatively small economies and neither fits particularly easily into trans-national, regionally based groupings of nation-states that offer one way for smaller economies to adjust to global change. Yet where …
Global rankings and domestic realities: Women, work and policy in Australia and New Zealand
At the beginning of the 1990s, according to the UN gender-sensitive Human Development Index, Australia was ranked sixth and New Zealand was eighth. A decade later, Australia ranked second while New Zealand ranked seventeenth. In other words, according to the United Nations, gender equality is more advanced in Australia than New Zealand. Yet a closer look reveals that in recent years New Zealand's public policy developments have been significantly…
Japan's Imperial Succession Debate and Women's Rights
Just when Japan's Imperial House was on the verge of an historic reform that would have marked an enormous step towards making it a more gender equal institution, the legislation permitting an Empress to reign was suddenly shelved. The immediate cause of the abrupt turnaround was the surprise announcement that 39-year-old Princess Kiko, the Emperor's daughter-in-law, was pregnant. The announcement led Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro to promptly …
Intoxication level and emotional response
We used affective modulation of the eye-blink component of the startle reflex to examine effects of three levels of alcohol intoxication and a no-intoxication control on emotional responses to pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant pictures. Non-problematic student drinkers (n=101; 48 female) were randomly assigned to intoxication groups. Normal inhibition of startle during exposure to pleasant pictures was intact across groups. In contrast, potentiat…
Bent Babies and Closed Borders: Paid Maternity Leave, Ideal Families and the Australian Population Project
This article examines recent public debate in Australia around the question of paid maternity leave with specific reference to the way this policy has been mooted as a possible key to reversing or stabilizing Australia's declining birth-rate. The paid maternity leave debate is read against a set of debates that have unfolded concurrently but generally have been treated separately: those concerning access to assisted reproductive technologies, gay…
Gender differences in emotional and overt/covert aggressive responses to stress
We examined the role of stress exposure on gender differences in hostile (emotional and behavioral) reactions within the context of a laboratory paradigm. Aggressive behavior was indexed via the intensity (overt) and the duration (covert) of putative shocks delivered to a confederate. Half of the participants were exposed to a chronic stressor (high stress) and half were not (low stress). Participants' emotional responses were measured via self‐r…
Women, Political Leadership and Substantive Representation: The Case of New Zealand
The descriptive representation of women in cabinet is a necessary but not sufficient condition to achieve women-friendly policy outcomes. Rather, substantive representation of women by women political leaders also requires women’s political activism. In this article, I explore the idea that institutionalised separate spaces are important sites of labour women’s activism which promote and sustain women’s policy leadership and the substantive repre…
Rural and regional Australia
Limited attention was paid to rural and regional Australia in the 2007 federal election. Only six of the government's eighteen marginal seats lay there and it seemed to have weathered the ‘rural backlash’ of previous years. The election campaign saw only a few explicitly rural policy differences between Government and Opposition. These involved broadband delivery, wheat marketing and climate change. Yet, the ALP made considerable inroads into the…
Analyzing Institutional Persistence: The Case of the Ministry of Women's Affairs in Aotearoa/New Zealand
The Ministry of Women's Affairs in Aotearoa/New Zealand was established as a stand-alone agency in 1986. It has remained institutionally intact for more than 20 years, unlike many women's policy agencies that have been downsized or eliminated. It has survived significant economic and state sector restructuring and weathered the extension of neoliberal orientations into the reform of social policy. We analyze New Zealand's version of state feminis…
Women in Executive Power: A Global Overview
1. Introduction Gretchen Bauer and Manon Tremblay 2. Arab States Vania Carvalho Pinto 3. South and Southeast Asia Andrea Fleschenberg 4. Oceania Jennifer Curtin and Marian Sawer 5. Central and Eastern Europe Maxime Forest 6. Sub-Saharan Africa Gretchen Bauer 7. Latin America Tiffany D. Barnes and Mark P. Jones 8. North America Farida Jalalzai and Manon Tremblay 9. Western Europe Fiona Buckley and Yvonne Galligan 10. Nordic Countries Christina Ber…
Counting the costs of coalition: The case of New Zealand’s small parties
Unlike most coalition studies, which are primarily concerned with the major parties, this article focuses on the costs of coalition for small parties. As the experiences of a number of countries demonstrate, the costs of coalition are unevenly shared, with major parties generally incurring low costs and small parties high costs. This article will focus on the impact of coalitions on New Zealand’s small parliamentary parties by considering whether…
Negotiating coalitions: Comparative perspectives
Recent elections in the English-speaking world have thrown up results that were both unpredictable and history-making. In particular, the advent of multi-party and minority government in Britain and Australia, neither of which have proportional representation, raises questions about the capacity of major parties to remain dominant, and the place of minor parties and independents in the future. Here we argue that while the idiosyncrasies of the Au…
Why voters prefer coalitions: Rationality or norms
This article asks if voters might prefer coalitions or single-party governments for ideological or normative reasons. Of course, they might prefer coalition to single-party governments for many reasons, one set clustering around the rational preferences of partisans largely in terms of expectations of electoral success or failure, and the other around the influence of norms or ideology. In terms of ‘rationality’, small-party supporters should wan…
Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline. Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering Practices and Feminist Theory
Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline. Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering Practices and Feminist Theory. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2010. ISBN 978–0–9806723–9–8. With the adoption of the ‘gende
Women and Political Science in New Zealand: The State of the Discipline
This article examines the state of the political science discipline in New Zealand, focusing on the numbers of women in the profession, the representation of women in the discipline’s journal, and the place of gender in the political science curriculum. While women in New Zealand political science have been active as a community for at least 30 years, there has been no systematic review documenting the status of women in the profession. This arti…
Does Federalism Matter? Evaluating State Architecture and Family and Domestic Violence Policy in Australia and New Zealand
Does federalism make a difference to policy making in the area of family and domestic violence (FDV)? This article explores this question through a comparison of Australia and New Zealand whose state architecture aside from federalism is very similar. It argues that Australian federalism has provided laboratories for innovative policy making and the continual articulation of a progressive policy response to FDV. By contrast, in New Zealand subnat…
More than Male-Gazing: Reflections on Female Fans of Rugby Union in New Zealand, 1870–1920
The presence of women in and around rugby union in New Zealand remains on the margins of the histories of the game of rugby and the more social and cultural histories that explore rugby’s impact on the formation of a New Zealand national identity. Yet, as this article demonstrates, women have long since engaged with rugby union in ways that may well have assisted in its ascendancy and ultimate claiming of the title of New Zealand’s national game.…
The prime ministership of Julia Gillard
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