The one-China issue before the 1990s was not particularly complex as both sides of the Taiwan Strait claimed that there was only one China in the world and Taiwan was part of China. Nevertheless, after Taiwan accelerated ...

This research project examines how managers in local-government-owned business organisations justify their adoption of an entrepreneurial orientation and their interpretation of their role in entrepreneurial terms. To ...

This thesis provides a Marxist analysis of the political economy of contemporary Māori protest politics in the years from 1968 to 1995. It is argued that Māori protest politics embraces a range of competing political ...

From 1987 to 1993 the Fourth Labour Government and the Fourth National Government in New Zealand embarked on a radical restructuring of the school-level education system in a series of reforms known as Tomorrow's Schools. ...

This thesis analyses the emergence of the 'third way' and the policy approaches implemented by the Labour-led Governments elected at the 1999 and 2002 New Zealand General Elections. Evaluating Anthony Giddens' claims that ...

Achieving 'justice' is the overriding aim of the Treaty settlement process. This process was established to resolve Maori historical grievances against the New Zealand Crown for alleged breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. ...

This thesis investigates the changing campaign coverage from 1946 to 2002, in The New Zealand Herald (The Herald), New Zealand's most-read newspaper. From tracking the percentage of news coverage devoted to parties and ...

This thesis is an attempt to answer the following question: How can the Internet be used to win political campaigns? Most political campaigns use the Internet, with email lists and web sites, but there appears to be ...