AGAINST THE CURRENT: representative democracy

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NEW ZEALAND'S CRISIS OF POLITICAL LEGITIMACY

The latest The Post / Freshwater Strategy poll puts Labour on 34 percent support and National on 31 percent. It's yet another poll in...

The Government's proposed electoral law change will disenfranchise a large swathe of voters, but an even larger number of people have al...

Our participation in the political process is largely confined to voting every three years. Now, the political establishment wants to reduce...

A new survey says that most New Zealanders think the country's political system is rigged in favour of the rich and powerful. IN CASE...

Despite the clai ms from our political elite and their cheerleaders that we live in a democracy, why do we still end up with governments th...

All signs are indicating that the final turnout in the 2023 general election could be the lowest in New Zealand electoral history. It sugges...

Young New Zealanders were absent from TVNZ's 'Young Voters Debate'... THERE WAS an absence of young voters on TVNZ's 'Yo...

The hollowing out of our representative democracy means that political leaders like Chris Hipkins and Chris Luxon can only scrape together l...

Verity Johnson has bemoaned the state of our democracy, but still wants people to vote. But all that will do is shore up a failed status quo...

As Labour heads for a certain election defeat, the liberal left has little to offer but its unfounded and irrational belief that Labour can ...

The only people concerned about the general election are the politicians and the chattering class. Maybe that's because the rest of us k...

The low approval rating of Chris Hipkins is symptomatic of a hollowed-out democracy... WHEN CHRIS HIPKINS was asked this week why only 25 pe...

On Thursday over 1.5 million people were on the streets of France protesting President Emmanuel Macron's contested pension reforms. Why ...

The real winner in the Hamilton West by-election was the Did Not Vote Party... AS WAS generally predicted the National Party came out on top...