Nostalgic Utopianism: The New Zealand Values Party’s 1972 Blueprint

The Ethical Values of Registered Valuers in New Zealand

A study of the Ethical and Moral values held by Registered Valuers in New Zealand. This paper forms part of a series being developed by the authors, dealing with different sectors of the real estate industry within the same cultural setting, as well as across different cultural settings. This study utilises a self-administered survey questionnaire to measure five constructs adapted from those d...

A Survey of New Zealand System Development Values

This paper reports on selected results of a survey of New Zealand information systems development processes conducted in mid 1998. The survey generated information on relative importance of different criteria in judging the success of information systems. These results are discussed in relation to broader issues of technical and social distinctions in information systems.

Realism and Utopianism Revisited

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...

Demographic and Psychological Predictors of Panel Attrition: Evidence from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study

This study examines attrition rates over the first four years of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study, a longitudinal national panel sample of New Zealand adults. We report the base rate and covariates for the following four distinct classes of respondents: explicit withdrawals, lost respondents, intermittent respondents and constant respondents. A multinomial logistic regression examined...