New Zealand's new government: soft power a casualty of coalition politics?

• Main Author: Rogerson, Evan
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; Country and Region Studies; International Politics and Security
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/173056
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the New Zealand general election of October 2020, the centre-left Labour Party won an absolute majority. This year, in a striking reversal, Labour was swept from power. The new government sworn in on 27 November is a three-party coalition led by the centre-right National Party, with the libertari...