Electoral Change, Inertia and Campaigns in New Zealand
The First Modern FPP Campaign in 1987 and the First MMP Campaign in 1996
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6315399 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Denemark (0000-0002-3248-2927, The University of Western Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 601-618 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Party Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13540688030095005 |
| OpenAlex | W2034296856 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 15 |
Electoral change creates important and competing incentives for political parties, parliamentary elites and candidates to transform their campaign techniques in order to maximize votes under the new realities - a process constrained by continued reliance on familiar techniques. In this article I examine two significant moments of electoral change in New Zealand from partisan stability to dealignment in the late 1980s, and from an SMP/plurality system to Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation in 1996 - as a way of exploring inertia and change in the transformation of campaigns at the constituency level. Drawing on findings from in-depth interviews conducted with individuals responsible for the parties' campaigns in the 1987 and 1996 New Zealand general elections, I explore the extent to which political campaign elites, parliamentarians and candidates responded to incentives to adopt a fundamentally new election campaign logic - in these two cases, dictated by the new tactical centrality of marginal seats and geographically defined constituencies in the modern first-past-the-post (FPP) campaign, and then by the ascendancy in their place of the party list vote, issue constituencies and nationwide campaigns under MMP
Centrality · Democracy · Economics · Electoral politics · Electoral system · General election · Incentive · Market economy · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Proportional representation · Representation (politics · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · New Zealand Economic and Social Studies · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |