Deconstructing cabinet collective responsibility
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v1i4.4253Keywords:
Members of Parliament (MPs), cabinet system, coalition government, Cabinet Manual, Ministers Outside Cabinet, Constitutional Arrangements Committee, Official Information Act (OIA)Abstract
New Zealand politics is getting very post-modern. In artistic terms, the new government arrangements are decidedly cubist – all the key elements are there, but it’s just not put together in the way you expect. Does it matter? Is the nation going to learn to like Picasso, or at least to live with it?
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2005-11-12
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