Bryce Edwards

Bryce Edwards Analysis: The Hugely damaging Barclay scandal It's become a received wisdom that in New Zealand political scandals don't really hurt governments. But English...

Bryce Edwards Analysis: Bill English's Dirty Politics scandal Is the Todd Barclay scandal the National Government's 2017 version of Dirty Politics? Of course there are...

Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards: Todd Barclay's downfall – who loses and why The Todd Barclay scandal reminds the public why they distrust and sometimes...

Bryce Edwards Analysis: Labour calls off the search for the missing million Labour's Campaign for Change has gone horribly wrong. As with the other scandal...

Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards - New Zealand Budget Analysis: Explaining National's apparent shift to the left National's 2017 Budget is a very centrist affair...

Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards - The Unaccountability of elites How much accountability is there in New Zealand politics and public life? Not enough, it seems,...

Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards: New Zealand's democracy and its discontents The big theme of this year's general election could turn out to be disinterest...

Dr Bryce Edwards Analysis: New Zealand Government's Trump-like threats against opponents Is it corruption for a Government to use taxpayer resources to silence its critics?...

Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards - Labour’s demographically challenging party list Challenging demographic requirements in Labour played a part in causing this week’s difficulties with its...

Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards - Massive and positive victory for low-paid workers Yesterday's historic pay agreement for care and support workers is a massive...