Kicking The Tyres: The New Zealand General Election and Electoral Referendum of 2011

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'New Zealanders have had to wait long enough for a chance to kick the tyres on MMP.' - John Key, August 2008. The sequel to The Baubles of Office and Key to Victory, Kicking the Tyres covers New Zealand's 2011 general election and the referendum on whether or not to keep the MMP electoral system. It offers comprehensive discussion of the election and referendum, by both participants and experienced political commentators, and includes a DVD of election billboards, debates and advertisements from the campaign.

Jon Johansson is a senior lecturer in political science and international relations at Victoria University of Wellington. His previous publications include The Politics of Possibility (2009), and Two Titans (2005), and he has also contributed to three previous books in this series. Stephen Levine ONZM is a professor of political science at Victoria University of Wellington. He is founder of VUW's parliamentary internship programme and has written extensively about New Zealand's politics, elections and international relations. He has co-edited books about each of New Zealand's elections under MMP and was director of the New Zealand Political Change Project (1995-2003). He also co-edited the New Zealand Ministry of Culture and Heritage's theme issue, 'Government and Nation', launched in June 2012 as part of New Zealand's national online encyclopedia, Te Ara.