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New  Zealand at the Polls: The General Election of 1978, edited by
Howard  R. Penniman, documents the latest political upheaval in a
country long known for its placid public life. Amid severe economic
difficulties and rising emigration, the National party Government
suffered a major loss of votes to the opposition. Though it managed
(barely) to hold onto office thanks to the workings of the electoral
system, National actually won fewer votes than Labour. The third
party, Social Credit, made its best showing ever-and its indignation
at receiving only 1.0 percent of the seats for its 16.1 percent of the
votes went to swell the chorus of complaints that both the basis of
the election and its outcome were unsound.
    The essays in this volume describe New Zealand's electoral system
and electorate and analyze the campaigns of the major and minor
parties, the role of the media and the pollsters, women's participation
in New  Zealand politics, and the disputed races. The authors, all
of them scholars working in New Zealand, are Stephen Levine, Keith
Ovenden, Alan  McRobie, Keith Jackson, Gilbert Antony Wood,
Roderic Alley, Colin C. James, Brian Murphy, Les Cleveland, Judith
Aitken, and Nigel S. Roberts. In an appendix, Richard M. Scammon
provides detailed election returns.
    Howard R. Penniman, general editor of the At the Polls series, is
professor of government at Georgetown University, codirector of the
Political and Social Processes Center at the American Enterprise
Institute, and an election consultant to the American Broadcasting
Company.  He  is the author of several books on government and
politics in the United States and has served as an official observer
of elections in developing countries, including the 1979 and 1980
elections in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.











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