With polls showing Labour could govern alone, is New Zealand returning to the days of 'elected dictatorship'?

  • Written by: The Conversation
With polls showing Labour could govern alone, is New Zealand returning to the days of 'elected dictatorship'?Labour leader Jacinda Ardern and National leader Judith Collins meet in the first TV debate on September 22.GettyImages

In the mid-1990s New Zealanders adopted electoral rules they hoped would end the tyranny of what Lord Hailsham once called the “elected dictatorship” of single-party majority government. And yet, a quarter century...

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