Research note: The New Zealand election study

Political Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 150-157

  Vowles, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

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EID: 23044522820     PISSN: 00323187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003231870005200205     Document Type: Article

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1. Thanks are also due to various people, in New Zealand and elsewhere, who encouraged and supported the researchers, especially in the early years. Particular acknowledgements are due to Charles Crothers, Colin James, Ian McAllister, Henry Valen, Richard Johnston, Paul Harris, Jack Nagel, Jenny Alford, and Andre Blais. Research assistants also put in essential contributions: Walter Forrest (1996-97); Clare Williams (1999), and Matthew Gibbons (2000). But perhaps the greatest thanks and acknowledgement should go to our many thousands of respondents, upon whose support and participation we rely absolutely.
2. See Vowles, J., Aimer, P., Banducci, Susan., and Karp, J., (eds.), Voters' Victory? New Zealand's First Election Under Proportional Representation (Auckland: Auckland Universily Press, 1998);
3. Vowles, J., Aimer, P., Catt, H., Lamare, J., and Miller, R., Towards Consensus? The 1993 General Election and Referendum in New Zealand and the Transition to Proportional Representation (Auckland: Auckland Universily Press, 1995);
4. Vowles, J. and Aimer, E. P., Voters' Vengeance: the 1990 Election in New Zealand and the Fate of the Fourth Labour Government (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1993).
5. The NZES also incorporates an earlier 1987 study involving a post-election telephone survey, partly internally funded by the University of Auckland, and partly funded by some private sector donors, including the National Business Review (NBR). which published the most comprehensive analysis of the data. In retrospect, this is somewhat ironic, given the negative publicity about our 1999 campaign study a very different NBR editorial team sought to distribute twelve years later. While the 1987 NZES was based on a shorter questionnaire, it has some value in providing time series for some core items.
6. Further methodological details and the texts of the questionnaires used are available in the appendices of the three books footnoted above, and on our website at www.nzes.org.
7. Johnston, R. et al., Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election (Montreal: McGill/Queens University Press, 1992).
8. The complete merged dataset for 1999 includes 5972 cases. 87.6 per cent of the post-election data was collected by mail questionnaire, the remainder by telephone. The questionnaire and frequencies for this data are available from our website at www.nzes.org, as are copies of many of the recent papers cited in footnotes below.
9. McAllister, I., and Vowles, J., 'The Rise of New Politics and Market Liberalism in Australia and New Zealand'. British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 24 (1994), pp. 381-402;
10. Vowles, J., and McAllister, I., 'Electoral Foundations and Electoral Consequences: From Convergence to Divergence', in F. Castles, R. Gerritsen, and J. Vowles, ed., The Great Experiment: Labour Parties and Public Policy Transformation in Australia and New Zealand (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1996), pp. 192-210.
11. Johnston, R 'Issues, Leaders, and the Campaign' in Vowles, J., Aimer, P., Banducci, Susan, and Karp, J., (eds.), Voters' Victory? New Zealand's First Election Under Proportional Representation (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998).
12. For 1990 we have validated data for respondents only.
13. For an initial use of this data, see Jeffrey A. Karp and Susan A. Banducci, 'The Impact of Proportional Representation on Turnout: Evidence from New Zealand', Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 34, No. 3 (1999), pp. 363-377.
14. Vowles, J., 'Dealignment and Demobilisation? Nonvoting in New Zealand 1938-1990', Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 29, No. 1 (1994), pp. 96-114; and the source in the footnote above.
15. Vowles, J., 'Introducing Proportional Representation: the New Zealand Experience', Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 53, No. 4 (October 2000);
16. Vowles, J., 'The Impact of the 1999 Campaign', in Boston, J., Church, S., Levine, S., McLeay, E., and Roberts, N. S., (eds.), Left Turn: The New Zealand General Election of 1999 (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2000). pp. 141-160;
17. Vowles, J., 'The 1999 Election: Preliminary Findings from the 1999 New Zealand Election Study', paper prepared for presentation at the New Zealand Political Studies Association Conference, Salmond Hall, University of Otago, June 28-30, 2000;
18. Vowles, J., 'Evaluating Electoral System Change: the Case of New Zealand', paper prepared for presentation at the XVIII World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Quebec City, Canada, August 1-5, 2000;
19. Jeffrey A. Karp and Susan A. Banducci, 'Political Efficacy and Participation in Eighteen Democracies: How Electoral Rules Shape Political Behavior', paper prepared for presentation at the XVIII World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Quebec City, Canada, August 1-5, 2000;
20. Jack Vowles, Jeffrey Karp, Susan Banducci, 'Proportional Representation on Trial: Elite vs. Mass Opinion on Electoral System Change in New Zealand', paper prepared for presentation at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 30 -September 3, 2000.
21. NZES, Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into MMP, July 2000; NZES. Report to the Electoral Commission (Hamilton, University of Waikato, July 2000).
22. But for the most recent publications see Jeffrey A. Karp, Jack Vowles, Susan A. Banducci, and Todd Donovan 'Strategic Voting, Party Activity, and Candidate Effects: Testing Explanations for Split Voting in New Zealand's New Mixed System'. Electoral Studies, forthcoming (2000);
23. Jeffrey A. Karp and Susan A. Banducci, 'Gender, Leadership, and Voting in Multi-Party Systems' in Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 53 No. 4 (December 2000);
24. Jeffrey A. Karp, Susan A. Banducci and Todd Donovan 'Proportional Representation and Attitudes about Politics: Evidence from New Zealand', Electoral Studies, Vol. 18 No. 4 (November 1999), pp. 533-555;
25. Jeffrey A. Karp, and Susan A. Banducci 'Perceptions of Fairness and Support for Proportional Representation' in Political Behavior, Vol. 21 No. 3 (September 1999) pp. 217-238.
26. See in particular Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam, (ed.), Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000);
27. Pippa Norris, (eds.), Critical Citizens: Global Support for Democratic Government (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).