Elizabeth McLeay
{{short description|New Zealand political science academic}}
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Elizabeth McLeay is a New Zealand political scientist. She is currently an Emeritus Professor at Victoria University of Wellington.{{Cite web|url=https://www.victoria.ac.nz/hppi/about/staff/elizabeth-mcleay|title=Elizabeth McLeay {{!}} School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations {{!}} Victoria University of Wellington|website=www.victoria.ac.nz|access-date=2019-04-13}}
Qualifications
McLeay has a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University of Wellington, a Postgraduate Diploma of Teaching from the Auckland Secondary Teachers' College (which has since been integrated into the University of Auckland), and a PhD from the University of Auckland. Her doctoral thesis investigated parliamentary careers and cabinet selection in New Zealand.{{cite thesis |last=McLeay |first=E. |year=1978 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Parliamentary careers in a two-party system : cabinet selection in New Zealand. |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland |hdl=2292/52044}}
Career
McLeay has taught at the City of London Polytechnic and the University of Auckland, but spent most of career teaching comparative government and politics at Victoria University of Wellington, from 1990 to 2009. From 2010-2012 McLeay was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow, at the Victoria University of Wellington's School of Law. As of 2019, McLeay is an Emeritus Professor and is currently researching the politics of prisoners' voting rights.
Public academic
In 2010, McLeay co-signed a letter alongside 26 other constitutional experts, criticising the Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act 2010 which was passed after the 2010 Canterbury earthquake.{{Cite web|url=https://pundit.co.nz/content/an-open-letter-to-new-zealands-people-and-their-parliament|title=An open letter to New Zealand's people and their Parliament {{!}} Pundit|website=pundit.co.nz|access-date=2019-05-04}} In 2018, McLeay was part of a group of 19 law and politics academics who criticised the so-called "waka jumping" Bill, which was part of the Labour-NZ First Coalition Agreement.{{Cite news|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/356323/waka-jumping-legislation-undemocratic-say-experts|title=Waka-jumping legislation 'undemocratic' say experts|date=1 May 2018|work=Radio New Zealand|access-date=13 October 2018|language=en-nz}}{{Cite news |last=Young |first=Audrey |date=30 April 2018 |title=Controversial waka-jumping bill an intrusion on MPs' freedom of expression, say academics |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12042410 |access-date=4 May 2019 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ |issn=1170-0777}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/52SCJU_EVI_75706_14570/d10e31415725d45930bc10eeb1cbf415609a2a2b|title=Submission on the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill|date=30 April 2018|website=New Zealand Parliament|access-date=4 May 2019}} In both instances, McLeay and the constitutional experts were concerned about executive overreach, and the diminishing role of Parliamentary conventions.
In addition to the above, McLeay has submitted evidence to the House of Representatives on both the [http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2010/0146/latest/DLM2926307.html 2010 Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Bill] and the 2011 review of the Parliamentary Standing Orders.{{Cite web|url=https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/49SCEL_EVI_00DBHOH_BILL9873_1_A51578/51f990e0c2a91f3443146af7d85e3b14c4febea8|title=SUBMISSION To the Electoral Legislation Committee On the Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Bill|date=5 July 2010|website=New Zealand Parliament|access-date=4 May 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/49SCSO_EVI_00DBSCH_INQ_10324_1_A177554/868f643a1250838082708e04bba6543e9c7e491a|title=Revised Submission to Standing Orders Committee|date=17 March 2011|website=New Zealand Parliament|access-date=4 May 2019}}
Books
McLeay's books include:
- The cabinet and political power in New Zealand (Oxford University Press, 1995)Reviews of The cabinet and political power in New Zealand:
- {{cite journal|last=Roberts|first=John|date=January 1997|doi=10.1177/003231879704800212|issue=2|journal=Political Science|pages=243–244|title=none|volume=48}}
- {{cite journal|last=Jones|first=Alistair|date=January 1998|doi=10.1111/1467-9299.00096|issue=1|journal=Public Administration|pages=188–189|title=none|volume=76}}
- New Zealand Under MMP: A New Politics? (with Jonathan Boston, Stephen Levine and Nigel S. Roberts, Auckland University Press, 1996)Review of New Zealand Under MMP:
- {{cite journal|last=Nagel|first=Jack H.|date=January 1997|doi=10.1177/003231879704800209|issue=2|journal=Political Science|pages=238–240|title=none|volume=48}}
- Rethinking Women and Politics: New Zealand and Comparative Perspectives (ed. with Kate McMillan and John Leslie, Victoria University Press, 2009)Reviews of Rethinking Women and Politics:
- {{cite journal|last=McMartin|first=Anna|date=June 2010|doi=10.1177/0032318710369692|issue=1|journal=Political Science|pages=105–106|title=none|volume=62|s2cid=144446139}}
- {{cite journal|last=Smits|first=Katherine|date=November 2010|doi=10.1080/1177083x.2010.537812|issue=2|journal=Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online|pages=110–112|title=none|volume=5|s2cid=144062076|doi-access=free}}
- What's the Hurry? Urgency in the New Zealand Legislative Process 1987-2010 (with Claudia Geiringer and Polly Higbee, Victoria University Press, 2011)Reviews of What's the Hurry?:
- {{cite journal|last=Wall|first=Jesse|title=Review|url=http://www.nzlii.org/nz/journals/OtaLawRw/2012/10.html|journal=Otago Law Review|volume=10|year=2012}}
- {{cite journal|title=Review|first=Margaret|last=Wilson|journal=LawTalk|volume=792|date=March 2012|page=25|url=http://myold.lawsociety.org.nz/in-practice/the-changing-law/legal-publications/book-review-whats-the-hurry-urgency-in-the-new-zealand-legislative-process-1987-2010}}
- In Search of Consensus: New Zealand’s Electoral Act 1956 and its Constitutional Legacy (Victoria University Press, 2018).Review of In Search of Consensus:
- {{cite journal|last=James|first=Joshua|date=October 2018|doi=10.1080/00323187.2018.1536290|journal=Political Science|pages=265–268|title=none|volume=70|issue=3|s2cid=150121930}}
- {{cite journal|url=https://booksellersnz.wordpress.com/2018/04/18/book-review-in-search-of-consensus-new-zealands-electoral-act-1956-and-its-constitutional-legacy-by-elizabeth-mcleay/|title=Book Review|date=April 2018|journal=The Reader|first=Simon|last=Boyce}}
Personal life
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