80 years in 80 photographs |
 1995 In a binding nationwide referendum held in November 1993, New Zealand voted to discard its first-past-the-post electoral system for parliamentary elections and to use a form of proportional representation instead. In 1995 three colleagues and I won a million-dollar plus multi-year research grant to study the consequences of this major change to New Zealand’s political system, and the summer 1995 edition of the Victoria Quarterly magazine featured the four of us in its cover story. From left to right in this dramatic cover photograph (which is reminiscent of posters for The Godfather and GoodFellas films) are Jonathan Boston, me, Elizabeth McLeay, and Stephen Levine. |