Volume 7, Issue 1

June 2009
Special Conference Issue: MMP and the Constitution

• Dean R Knight,"Foreword"

Articles

• Ryan Malone, "'Who's the Boss?': Executive–Legislature Relations in New Zealand under MMP"
• Andrew Geddis, "The Legal Status of Political Parties under MMP"
• Jonathan Boston and David Bullock, "Experiments in Executive Government under MMP in New Zealand: Contrasting Approaches to Multi-Party Governance"
• André Kaiser, " MMP, Minority Governments and Parliamentary Opposition"
• Raymond Miller and Jack Vowles, "Public Attitudes towards MMP and Coalition Government"
• Philip A Joseph, "MMP and the Constitution"
• Stephen Levine and Nigel S Roberts, "MMP and the Future: Political Challenges and Proposed Reforms"
• Jonathan Bradbury, "The Best of Both Worlds? MMP Electoral Reform and Constitutional Development in Scotland and Wales"

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• PG McHugh, "Mike Taggart: In Memoriam"

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The symposium at which preliminary versions of these articles were originally presented – "MMP and the Constitution: 15 years past; 15 years forward" – was hosted by the New Zealand Centre for Public Law, in conjunction with Victoria's Institute of Policy Studies and Birkbeck's Centre for New Zealand Studies, and was made possible with the generous support of the New Zealand Law Foundation.