Abstract
New Zealand has been experiencing a period of electoral instability, which has involved considerable vote changing in response to the presence of ephemeral or fluctuating third parties, and to the radical policies of the fourth Labour government. In these circumstances, one would expect to see evidence of partisan dealignment in the form of a loosening of the relationship between electors' party identifications and their votes. However, data from a post-election survey do not bear this out. Rather, rates of identification have remained high and in a period of political flux identifications and votes have remained coupled together, in a manner that suggests that the relationship between them is strongly reciprocal.
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