Comparative Agendas

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The New Zealand Policy Agendas Project collects and organizes data from various archived sources to trace changes in the national policy agenda and public policy outcomes in New Zealand. Major topic data are available for Questions for Oral Answer for the 49th Parliament. Data for decisions of the New Zealand Supreme Court are forthcoming

Principal Investigator: Rhonda Evans
Location: Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Email: clarkcenteroznz@gmail.com

Sponsoring Institutions

The New Zealand Policy Agendas Project is funded by the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.

New Zealand Policy Agendas

Featured Research:

Policy Agendas of National Courts: Australia and New Zealand Compared

Rhonda Evans and Rebecca Eissler, “Policy Agendas of National Courts: Australia and New Zealand Compared,” 8th Annual Comparative Policy Agendas Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 22-24 June 2015. Read more

Comparing High Court Policy Agendas: Australia and New Zealand

Rhonda Evans and Rebecca Eissler, “Comparing High Court Policy Agendas: Australia and New Zealand,” European Consortium for Political Research, Montréal, Québec, 26-29 August 2015. Read more

A Political Science Perspective on the New Zealand Supreme Court’s Docket

“From Applications to Appeals: A Political Science Perspective on the New Zealand Supreme Court’s Docket,” Rhonda Evans Case and Sean Fern (pp. 33-60). In their contribution to this volume, Evans and Fern examine agenda-setting on the New Zealand Supreme Court for the period from 2004 to 2012, the first eight years of the Court’s existence. The Court possesses broad authority to set its agenda. Evans and Fern find that the Court crafted an... Read more

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