Democracy in New Zealand

Social democracy and market reform in Australia and New Zealand

Social democratic governments in Australia and New Zealand adopted policies of radical free market reform, including financial deregulation, privatisation and public sector reform in the 1980s. Because of the absence of institutional obstacles to government action, reform was faster and more comprehensive in New Zealand than in Australia. The New Zealand reforms were associated with increasing ...

Democracy, the Academic Field and the (New Zealand) Journalistic Habitus

The relationship between journalism and the academy is historically fraught. Any mention of the word ‘theory’ is only likely to exacerbate these tensions, since it perhaps signifies, most clearly, the division between both identities. Drawing on the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu, this paper considers, with particular empirical reference to the New Zealand context, the often antagonistic rela...

Coote New Zealand Futures Trust New Zealand

On Media A workshop report from US Institute for Peace examined Arab media, August, 05 (http://usip.org/virtual diplomacy/publications/reports/18.html), with special focus on attitudes to US and to the West. The relevant Arab governments play a double role since mostly, they control the media, where they appease the ideological positions of their own threatening insurgencies while focusing publ...

Surgery in New Zealand.

Surgery in New Zealand is performed by more than 500 surgeons who serve a population of 3.8 million people. Most of the surgeons are trained in New Zealand under the auspices of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Surgical services are consistent with the highest standards of Western countries.

Disinflation in New Zealand*