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Requirement that the government be selected by the people's representatives in the Dail, coupled with the difficulty in forming a single-party majority.

The 19th century brought self-government to Britain's colonies in New Zealand, Canada and Australia, but none of them identified, in constitutional law, the model of executive government, responsible government, which they were to practice. Executive powers were vested not in a prime minister and cabinet but in the Crown. Responsible government was practiced, as in Britain, by convention. The reasons for this anomaly include the embryonic nature of 19th century colonial political parties, the uncertain imperial relationship, and the problem of reconciling responsible government with federalism. Despite British pressure to the contrary, however, the Irish Free State succeeded in writing responsible government into constitutional law in 1922. A new Canadian constitution and a long-term constitutional study in Australia notwithstanding, the ex-colonies have yet not revised their constitutions, which remain quasi-colonial in character. (Internat. Pol. Science Assoc.)

Te Ao Hou: The New World takes up the increasingly complex history of Maori entwined with Pakeha newcomers from about 1830. As the new world unfolded, Maori independence was hotly contested; Maori held as tightly as they could to their authority over the land, while the Crown sought to loosen it. War broke out just as the numbers of Pakeha resident in the country began to equal those of tangata whenua. For Maori, the consequences were devastating, and the recovery was long, framed by rural poverty, population decline and the economic depression of the late nineteenth century. Drawn from the landmark publication, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History (2014), Te Ao Hou covers the Maori history of the nineteenth century