Stardust and substance : the New Zealand General Election of 2017 / edited by Stephen Levine.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Trevor Mallard -- Preface / Stephen Levine -- Overview of the Election -- 1. Stardust and Substance: New Zealand's 2017 election / Stephen Levine -- Party Leaders' Perspectives -- 2. Labour 2017: the Prime Minister's perspective / Jacinda Ardern -- 3. Change versus a modified status quo: the New Zealand First perspective / Winston Peters -- 4. The Green Party's campaign: a leader's perspective / James Shaw -- 5. National: the leader's perspective / Bill English -- 6. The ACT Party: the leader's perspective / David Seymour -- 7. The Māori Party - a valedictory address / Te Ururoa Flavell -- 8. United Future - a valedictory address / Peter Dunne -- The 2017 New Zealand election - views from overseas -- 9. The New Zealand election - an American view / Alan Tidwell -- 10. The New Zealand election - an Australian view / Nicholas Economou and Zareh Ghazarian -- 11. The New Zealand election - the view from the UK / Tim Bale -- 12. The New Zealand election - Jacinda Ardern's rise and the generational politics of party leadership / Paul 't Hart and Willem van Toor -- 13. The New Zealand election - a Japanese view / Kuniaki Nemoto -- Media Perspectives -- 14. 'Boom, Shake the Room': Producing a political TV show in one of New Zealand's most explosive election campaigns / Nicola Kean -- 15. Maori media and the campaign / Yvonne Tahana -- 16. Cartoonists and the 2017 election / Ian F. Grant and Hannah Benbow -- 17. Satire and citizen craft in 2017 / Sarah Austen-Smith -- Campaign Perspectives -- 18. Candidates and campaigning - a Labour MP's electorate race / Rebekka Evans -- 19. Candidates and campaigning - a New Zealand First MP's campaign / Angus Stallmann -- 20. Candidates and campaigning - a Green MP's campaign / Karishma Patel -- 21. Candidates and campaigning - a National MP's electorate race / Stephanie Taylor -- Public policy and the legacy of the Key-English government -- 22. Flagging fortunes: early intimations of National's vulnerability / Therese Arseneau and Nigel S. Roberts -- 23. Foreign and defence policy / Robert Ayson -- 24. It is not just the economy, stupid ... / Girol Karacaoglu and Joey Au -- 25. New Zealand environmental policy in the Key era: escalating crises in a time of neo-liberal economic dominance / Priya Kurian and Megan Smith -- 26. Immigration and the Key-English government / Fiona Barker -- 27. Crisis? What crisis? An overview of the fifth National government's housing policies / Ben Schrader -- 28. The government and the media: nine laissez-faire years / Gavin Ellis -- 29. The state sector: emergent concerns / Bob Gregory and Masashi Yui -- The Campaign, the Results and the Formation of the Coalition -- 30. The first post-baby-boomer election / Colin James -- 31. Jacinda Ardern: a political presence / Claire Timperley -- 32. Performing politics: leaders' debates in the 2017 election / Geoffrey Craig -- 33. Survey findings and the 2017 election / Stephen Mills -- 34. Scandals, transgressions and embarrassments in the 2017 election / Ellie Argyle -- 35. Did the Maori electorates decide the election? / Morgan Godfery -- 36. Pacific peoples and the 2017 election / Salote Talagi -- 37. Round two: forming a government / Stephen Church -- Epilogue -- 38. Looking ahead ... / Stephen Levine.

"Stardust and Substance captures some of the magic of Jacinda Ardern’s extraordinary seven-and-a-half weeks’ campaign, defeating a National government in power for nine years. The story of her sensational achievement – with ‘relentless positivity’ and a ‘Let’s do this’ attitude – is told in this book by multiple authors, including Jacinda Ardern herself; her coalition partners, Winston Peters and James Shaw; and, looking back at the 2017 race, by her adversary in the campaign, former prime minister Bill English."--Publisher's website.