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Pacific People in Parliament: a Case Study of Minority Representation in New Zealand

Cook, Helena (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Analysing the nature of political representation raises questions about the roles of political representatives: who it is they represent and what they do once in Parliament. However, the roles of MPs can be affected by ...
People Power: The Everyday Politics of Democratic Resistance in Burma and the Philippines

Henry, Nicholas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

How do Community Based Organisations (CBOs) in Burma and the Philippines participate in the construction of political legitimacy through their engagement in local and international politics? What can this tell us about ...
The Political Economy of New Zealand’s Consumers Price Index

Higgs, Corin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The structure of New Zealand’s Consumers Price Index has changed many times over its 100 year history. As New Zealand’s most influential and consequential official statistic the CPI performs political and distributional ...
The Political Influence of the Military Before and After Democratic Transition: Experiences from Indonesia - An Assessment on Myanmar

Beets, Benjamin H. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Historically, the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) and Myanmar’s Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) held tremendous levels of domestic political influence. Following independence in the 1940s, both countries experienced a short ...
Political Leadership After the British: A Study of Jomo Kenyatta and Julius Nyerere

Baigent, James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

In the post-World War Two era, political decolonisation swept across Africa. In the wake of decolonisation a wide variety of political leadership outcomes have emerged. In many national contexts indigenous political ...
Political marketing and the British Labour Party 1994-2010: Applying the product life-cycle model to a political party

de Malmanche, Brett Raymond (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This thesis explores the merits of applying a marketing model, the product life-cycle model, to a political party. The product life-cycle model details a product during its introduction, growth, maturity and decline cycles. ...
Political Prophecy in Elizabethan England

Pollock, Talia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This thesis examines political prophecy in England during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). The belief that foreknowledge of events could be attained through means such as the practice of astrology, revelation from ...
Politicians Gone Wild: A Comparative Analysis of Political Scandals in New Zealand, The United States and France

Argyle, Elizabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The place of political scandals in the academic literature is contentious; scandals are commonly dismissed as distractions from the ‘real issues’ in a society. This thesis challenges that notion, instead arguing that ...
Politics and Sport don’t mix – or do they? National Identity and New Zealand’s Participation in the Olympic Games

Warren, Micheal (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Sports matter. Today sport is one of the most enduring social events that humans from across the world participate in, no matter their race, religion or gender. Moreover, the biggest of all those sporting events is the ...
The Politics of Development: A Study of the Structure of Politics from 1870 to 1890

Armstrong, Warwick Robert (Victoria University of Wellington, 1960)

This thesis is the result not of any specific idea gained from a general study of the period under review; rather it is based upon the research and work done on an earlier project, a provincial history of Taranaki, which, ...
The Politics of Education: a Study of Attitudes Pressures and Relations in the New Zealand Education System

Ingle, Stephen J. (Victoria University of Wellington, 1967)

Political science is a discipline which purports to study power as a process, a distinct but inseparable part of the social process. It is the general aim of this study to shed light on the inner workings and operating ...
The Politics of Labour Migration and Demographic Change in Contemporary Japan

Bishop, Andrew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Japan currently faces a demographic crisis resulting from declines in fertility rates and rapid expansion of Japan’s elderly population. Public pensions will come under immense strain as shrinking numbers of working age ...
The politics of presence: Political representation and New Zealand's Asian members of Parliament

Choi, Seonah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

In New Zealand, existing studies relating to the political representation of the country’s minority groups are largely confined to that of women and the Māori population. Unsurprisingly then, the representation of Asian-New ...
Possible scenarios for China-U.S. Relations by 2030

Vu, Thanh Duy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The rise of China and relative decline of the United States have caused a heated debate on a possible power shift in the Asia-Pacific. Whether China and the U.S. will become friends or enemies remains an unanswered question. ...
Pragmatism and Reconciliation: Czech-German Political Relations, 1989 – 1997

Bracey, Sarah M.C. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis charts the process of Czech-German political reconciliation between the years 1989 and 1997 asking, broadly, how Czech and German government representatives arrived at the 1997 Declaration on Mutual Relations ...
Pressure Groups Under MMP: a Study of Behaviour and Influence

Buckle, Samuel Marcus (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This thesis examines the impact of MMP on pressure group behaviour and strategies. MMP altered the distribution of public policy decision-making power. As a consequence, it was expected to influence the strategies and ...
The PRIDE Project: Assessing the Regional Approach to Basic Education Delivery

Mitchell, Lucy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

The PRIDE Project was conceived as a way to bolster the awareness, coordination and delivery of basic education in the Pacific region. The project‟s mandate was to enhance the capacity of Pacific education agencies to ...
Privacy and the Communitarian Self

Moore, Benjamin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Contemporary philosophical debates about privacy turn on important questions regarding selfhood. Minimally, someone who endorses the possibility of informational privacy is committed to the idea that there are ‘selves’ or ...
Privacy, Security and the Cyber Dilemma: An Examination of New Zealand’s Response to the Rising Threat of Cyber-attack

Gordon, Richard (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Cyber-attacks present significant challenges to a modern, globalised world. Progressively used by criminal and terrorist organisations to attack or victimise non-state actors, governments are increasingly forced to pursue ...
Prosociality without morality: A Humean constructivist approach to prosocial practical reason for moral skeptics

Drake, Nicholas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The moral skeptic frequently encounters the view that without a belief in moral facts she has insufficient justification for acting in prosocial ways, such as acting with concern for the interests or welfare of others. ...