期刊
POLITICAL SCIENCE
卷 69, 期 2, 页码 139-160出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00323187.2017.1348236
关键词
Voting; turnout; Asian; New Zealand; electoral participation; immigrants; barriers; trust; duty
资金
- Victoria University of Wellington's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences [3387]
- European Commission [EU Centres Network DG RELEX] [31895]
New Zealand electoral data show that those identifying with an Asian ethnicity have the lowest electoral turnout of any of the broad 'ethnic' categories used by government statisticians. What accounts for this finding? Given a paucity of quantitative data with which to answer this question, we employ a qualitative, focus group-based research design to examine the electoral participation of first-generation Asian immigrants. 1 We ask, first, what are the main factors that lead Asian immigrants in New Zealand to participate or not participate in parliamentary elections and, second, do these reasons vary among immigrants from different national backgrounds? Our findings suggest that the low electoral turnout recorded among New Zealand Asians is likely to be at least in part an artefact of the recentness of much immigration from non-English-speaking countries such as South Korea and China. The paper also identifies the role government agencies, political parties and the ethnic media could play in communicating information about New Zealand's electoral politics, with potentially significant dividends for future voting rates among Asian immigrants in New Zealand.
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