The Rise of the Left and Working-Class Voting Behavior in New Zealand

New Methods

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3354932
AutoresMiles Fairburn (Professor of History, University of Canterbury), Stephen Haslett (0000-0002-2775-5468, Massey University)
Ano2005
Volume35
Fascículo4
Páginas523-555
Data de publicação2005-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
EditoraMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/0022195043327408
OpenAlexW2078133740
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas12

The extent to which mainstream left-wing parties attracted working-class votes during the first half of the twentieth century is exceptionally difficult to establish and explain. All of the various methods applied to the subject, including ecological regression of aggregate data, have had their problems, especially the ecological fallacy. A novel solution to these problems, in the context of New Zealand, takes occupational and party voting data at street level as its observations for ten towns from 1911 to 1951, and correlates the data treating each town for each year as a case. The working-class component in the total vote for the Labour Party varied surprisingly by town and followed unexpected trends

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