Voting in New Zealand Government Elections: The Need to Encourage Greater Voter Turnout

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dc.citation.issue24
dc.contributor.authorAsquith A
dc.contributor.authorWebster K
dc.contributor.authorCardow A
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T02:42:59Z
dc.date.available2024-06-21T02:42:59Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-28
dc.description.abstractWithin a global context, local government in New Zealand occupies an enviable position: it enjoys both a statutorily-defined ‘power of general competence’ and financial autonomy from central government. However, despite this, voter turnout rates in New Zealand local elections continue to fall as ever fewer New Zealanders engage in this fundamental act of civic engagement. This review article examines the decline in voting over the last four New Zealand local government elections (2010/13/16/19). It aims to do three things: plot the decline; identify and analyse the causes of this decline; and suggest ways in which the decline might be countered. The authors reach the conclusion that local government in New Zealand is at a crossroads – it will either be rejuvenated as a source of local democracy and prosper, or decline into an administrative arm of central government.
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dc.edition.editionJune 2021
dc.format.pagination79-97
dc.identifier.citationAsquith A, Webster K, Cardow A. (2021). Voting in New Zealand Government Elections: The Need to Encourage Greater Voter Turnout. Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance. 24. (pp. 79-97).
dc.identifier.doi10.5130/cjlg.vi24.7541
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn1836-0394
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69963
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherUTS Centre for Local Government.
dc.publisher.urihttps://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/7541
dc.relation.isPartOfCommonwealth Journal of Local Governance
dc.rights(c) 2021 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectLocal Government
dc.subjectElections
dc.subjectCitizen Engagement
dc.subjectNew Zealand
dc.titleVoting in New Zealand Government Elections: The Need to Encourage Greater Voter Turnout
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id447291
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