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A Bark But No Bite

List of tables

Table 1.1: The party and electorate votes, New Zealand elections, 2008–2014

Table 1.2: Flow of the party votes, 2011–2014 (total percentages)

Table 1.3: Party best at dealing with the issue by those finding it to be the single most important

Table 2.1: Percentage shares of income and wealth by respective quintiles

Table 4.1: The social and demographic structural correlates of inequality and voting choice

Table 5.1: Extent of truth in claims made in Dirty Politics by party vote

Table 5.2: Most preferred coalition party by preferred party in government (column percentage)

Table 6.1: Perceptions of David Cunliffe (percentages)

Table 6.2: Attitudes to inequality (column percentages)

Table 7.1: Major party most wanted to be in government and preferences for Greens to be in government

Table 8.1: Correlations: Standardised libertarian–authoritarian scale by likes and dislikes of political parties

Table 8.2: Correlations between liking and disliking political parties in New Zealand, 2014 election

Table 9.1: Women elected under MMP, 1996–2014

Table 9.2: Female MPs per party, 2014

Table 9.3: Support for more female MPs by party vote (in row percentages)

Table 9.4: Percentage support for initiatives to increase women’s representation in parliament by gender

Table 9.5: Women’s representation options by percentages of party voters

Table 10.1: Electorate votes and electorate seats in the Māori electorates 1996–2011

Table 10.2: Change between 2011 and 2014 in the seven Māori electorates

Table 10.3: The party vote, Māori electorates, 1996–2014

Table 11.1: Change in turnout, enrolment base and change in enrolment, age-eligible base

Table 4.A1: Multinomial logistic regression party choice at the 2014 election (reference category=National; N=2581)

Table 4.A2: Multinomial logistic regression party choice at the 2014 election, with parental party identification and income/assets interaction (reference category=National; N=2581)

Table 4.A3: Baseline model, plus security and insecurity, controlling for economic performance perceptions and aspirations

Table 4.A4: Left–right position, social structure and aspirations and insecurity

Table 5.A1: Valence model on the National vote

Table 5.A2: Effects of liking or disliking Labour coalition/support parties on the National vote

Table 6.A1: Dimensionality of government expenditure preferences

Table 6.A2: Correlates of opinions on universal and targeted benefits

Table 6.A3: Agreement with raising the age of New Zealand superannuation

Table 6.A4: Social correlates of support for capital gains tax: Ordinary least squares regression

Table 6.A5: The Treaty of Waitangi as part of the law

Table 6.A6: Demographic and attitudinal correlates of opposition to inequality

Table 6.A7a: The Labour vote or not, 2014 by positional and valence variables

Table 6.A7b: The Labour vote or not, 2014 by positional and valence variables

Table 7.A1: Likelihood of voting Green or not, logistic regression

Table 7.A2: Split voting, 2014 election (total percentages)

Table 8.A1: Social groups and authoritarian–libertarianism: Ordinary least squares regression

Table 8.A2: Social groups and attitudes to immigration: Ordinary least squares regression

Table 8.A3: Social groups and attitudes to abortion: Ordinary least squares regression

Table 8.A4: New Zealand First vote choice models

Table 8.A5: Conservative Party vote choice models

Table 8.A6: Liking or disliking the ACT Party

Table 10.A1: Comparing candidate effects on the Labour vote: Māori electorate and the general electorate vote

Table 10.A2: Baseline model of voting in the Māori electorates: The electorate vote (multinomial logistic regression)

Table 10.A3: Baseline model of voting in the Māori electorates: The party vote (multinomial logistic regression)

Table 10.A4: Dimensional model of voting in the Māori electorates: The party vote

Table 11.A1: Vote/not vote by age, gender, Māori and electorate

Table 11.A2: Non-voting and social structure, 2014 election

Table 11.A3: How non-voters might have voted


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