Books and reports: Te Oranga o te Iwi Maori Working Paper 2: The Maori Seats in Parliament 30 May 2008, Philip A Joseph	View PDF
This essay advances four propositions: (a) the separate seats are unnecessary to secure effective representation of Maori, (b) the seats entrench a form of historical paternalism that removes Maori issues from the mainstream political agenda, (c) the retention of the seats under MMP represents an insidious form of reverse discrimination and (d) the seats invite 'overhang' and the potential to undermine the expressed will of the people.