With polls showing Labour could govern alone, is New Zealand returning to the days of 'elected dictatorship'?
- Written by Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University
Labour leader Jacinda Ardern and National leader Judith Collins meet in the first TV debate on September 22.GettyImagesIn the mid-1990s New Zealanders adopted electoral rules they hoped would end the tyranny of what Lord Hailsham once called the “elected dictatorship” of single-party majority government. And yet, a quarter century...
