Country Party (New Zealand)
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The Country Party of New Zealand was a political party which appealed to rural voters. It was represented in Parliament from 1928 to 1938. Its policies were a mixture of rural advocacy and social cred
Harold Rushworth, party leader and MP, 1928-38.
Social credit
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Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed in the 1920s and 1930s by the British engineer and economist C. H. Douglas. Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepan
Country Party (New Zealand)
…political party which appealed to rural voters. It was represented in Parliament from 1928 to 1938. Its policies were a mixture of rural advocacy and social credit theory. The Country Party had its origins in the Auckland Farmers' Union, a branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union which covered the old Auckland…
C. H. Douglas, founder of the "social credit" economic theory, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.