Political Science

Mr. Campbell, a graduate in law at Victoria College and now with the Internal Marketing Department, here challenges the view expounded so often by Professor Laski and current in many circles since the High Court's and Privy Council's decision against the Australian Commonwealth government on the bank nationalisation issue, that our legal system is out of step with forces of social development.

On the controversial topic of local, government Mr. Knowles, the editor of the “Howick Times,” here argues the case for the decentralised local body in a manner which, it would seem, gives advocates of centralisation much to ponder over.

Machiavelli is one of the most maligned political thinkers in history, but Machiavellianism is an approach to politics more honoured in the observance than in the breach. “Asiaticus” here interprets the Indonesian question as a struggle for power between rival elities, a Machiavellian interpretation.

In this appraisal of American foreign policy, Mr. L. O. Arnold, a Stage III Political Science student, criticises several aspects of that policy but his conclusion is that of the vast majority of New Zealanders.

Mr. Wilson, editor of “The Standard” weekly newspaper, the official organ of the Labour Party, sees in modern society an inevitable and beneficial increase in state activity, to which no limit need, be set.

Mr. R. M. Algie, National Party Member of Parliament for Remuera, deeding more specifically with legislative process sees in modern New Zealand trends a danger to the freedom of the individual, and argues that Cabinet and departmental control have rendered parliamentary control largely non-effective.

Mr. J. M. Winchester, a graduate in History at Victoria College, who discusses the Marxian attitude to the State, does not see any advantage in the extension of State activity in a modern capitalist State.

Father J. Higgins, Roman Catholic sociologist, uses the notion of Natural Law to arrive at the limits to the power of the State.