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Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific

Author : Stephanie Lawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521496381
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific written by Stephanie Lawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much literature on non-Western traditions celebrates the renaissance of indigenous cultures. Others have been more critical of this renaissance, especially with respect to its political implications. This study analyses the assertion of 'tradition' by indigenous elites, looking especially at the way it is used to differentiate 'the West' from the 'non-West'. This is important to contemporary discussion about the validity of democracy outside the West and problems concerning universalism and relativism. The discussion of Fiji focuses on constitutional development and the traditionalist emphasis on chiefly legitimacy. The rise of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Tonga is considered against the background of a conservative political order that has so far resisted pressure for reform. The move to universal suffrage in Western Samoa is seen not as a rejection of traditional ways in favour of democratic norms, but as a means of preserving important aspects of traditional culture.

Tradition Versus Democracy in the Kingdom of Tonga

Author : Stephanie Lawson
Publisher : Political and Social Chang
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tradition Versus Democracy in the Kingdom of Tonga written by Stephanie Lawson and published by Political and Social Chang. This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture and Democracy in the South Pacific

Author : Fanaafi Le Tagaloa Aiono
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Democracy in the South Pacific written by Fanaafi Le Tagaloa Aiono and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Some Conceptual and Empirical Issues in the Study of Regime Change

Author : Stephanie Lawson
Publisher : Political and Social Chang
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Some Conceptual and Empirical Issues in the Study of Regime Change written by Stephanie Lawson and published by Political and Social Chang. This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook of Global Political Policy

Author : Stuart Nagel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000643565
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Global Political Policy written by Stuart Nagel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest in the six-volume set of global policy handbooks, this reference utilizes a cross-national, cross-policy approach to examine the public policy of six different regions around the world. Combining actual and theoretical perspectives, the book compares and presents nonideological resolutions to current political conditions worldwide. With contributions from over 30 international policy experts and academicians and containing over 1200 literature references, tables, and drawings, the book is an insightful resource for public administrators and public policy experts, political scientists, economists, sociologists, attorneys, and students in these disciplines.

Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific

Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113529948X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific written by Nicholas Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays which focuses upon local perceptions of the state, efforts to ground nationhood in tradition, the character of national narratives and recent transformations of the Pacific nationalism. Case studies are included from Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa and the Cook Islands.

Government and Public Policy in the Pacific Islands

Author : Graham Hassall
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789736153
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Government and Public Policy in the Pacific Islands written by Graham Hassall and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative study of government and public policy in the twenty small states of the Pacific Islands, examining the often tense societal interactions over competing conceptions of public-sector institutions and authority, rule-making, and policy processes.

Government Policies and Ethnic Relations in Asia and the Pacific

Author : Michael E. Brown
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262522458
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Government Policies and Ethnic Relations in Asia and the Pacific written by Michael E. Brown and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997-10-20 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efforts to contend with tensions inherent in multiethnic societies; case studies of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, and the Federated States of Micronesia. Ethnic conflict, one of the most serious and widespread problems in the world today, can undermine efforts to promote political and economic development, as well as political, economic, and social justice. It can also lead to violence and open warfare, producing horrifying levels of death and destruction. Although government policies on ethnic issues often have profound effects on a country, the subject has been neglected by most scholars and analysts. This volume analyzes different policies governments have pursued in their efforts to contend with the tensions inherent in multiethnic societies. The book focuses on Asia and the Pacific, the most populous and economically vibrant part of the world. The heart of the book is a set of case studies of government policies in sixteen countries: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, and the Federated States of Micronesia. The studies consider a wide range of political, economic, educational, linguistic, and cultural policies, and how these policies have evolved over time. Using a broad comparative perspective to assess the effectiveness of different governmental approaches, the authors offer policy recommendations that cut across individual countries and regions.

The Search for Arab Democracy

Author : Larbi Sadiki
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231125802
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book The Search for Arab Democracy written by Larbi Sadiki and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to be a "democrat" and a "Muslim" at the same time is the subject of ongoing contests. This book maps out the variety of voices contesting "Islam" and "democracy" in the Arab world, insisting that neither category can be taken as unitary or fixed. In the Arab Middle East, the contest is over "which", "whose", and "how much" democracy takes place within an existing contest over "which", "whose", and "how much" Islam must be given pre-eminence in the political and cultural sphere. There is a "Democracy" and there are "democracies." There is an "Islam" and there are "islams." Larbi Sadiki deploys the conceptual tools of contemporary Western political philosophy and theory to articulate and defend some provocative theses. The book challenges Eurocentric conceptions of democracy that all-too-frequently display a lack of concern for specificity and context; analyzes and interrogates Orientalist and Occidentalist discourses on democracy; and considers some of the justifications for democracy in the global arena, giving space for self-representation by women and Islamists, among others. Using interviews with Muslims from every social and economic stratum, the book shows how Arabs themselves understand, imagine, and view democracy.

Political Parties in the Pacific Islands

Author : Roland Rich
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921313765
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Political Parties in the Pacific Islands written by Roland Rich and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "ANU E Press edition of work originally published by Pandanus Books. While political parties remain an indispensable institutional framework for representation and governance in a democracy, the democracies of many Pacific Islands nations are undermined by the weakness and inefficacy of their local political parties. Addressing the implications of the lack of established party systems across the Pacific, this collection seeks to illuminate the underlying assumptions and suppositions behind the importance of coherent and effective parties to overall democratic functioning Focusing on the political systems of East Timor, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji and Samoa, the coherent structure of the volume makes it consistently useful as both an articulate analytical text and as a reference tool concerning the political composition, history and direction of Pacific states. Featuring contributions from scholars who are familiar names to even the most casual of Pacificists, Political Parties in the Pacific is the benchmark reference work on the political parties of the Pacific: an invaluable resource for students, scholars and researchers of the Pacific and international politics."--Provided by publisher.

Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific

Author : Carmela Lutmar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319785958
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific written by Carmela Lutmar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores theories of conflict and peacebuilding and applies them to case studies from the Asia Pacific region, seeking to shift attention to the inherency of conflict, the constant danger of re-emergence, and the need to establish mechanisms to resolve it. The authors argue that the central focus of peacebuilding should not be state-building per se, but rather the creation of effective mechanisms for peaceful resolution of both past and newly emerging conflicts. To do so, it is important to consider the entire process of creating peace, to contemplate the linkages between conflict, resolution, and post-conflict peacebuilding, rather than focus only on the period of institution-building.

Globalization and Citizenship in the Asia-Pacific

Author : A. Davidson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230377084
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Citizenship in the Asia-Pacific written by A. Davidson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-04-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people around the Asia-Pacific region are suffering from the twin effects of globalization and exclusionary nationality laws. Some are migrant workers without rights in host countries; some are indigenous peoples who are not accorded their full rights in their own countries. Yet others are refugees escaping from regimes that have no respect for human rights. This collection of essays discusses the ways in which citizenship laws in the region might be made consistent with human dignity. It considers the connectedness of national belonging and citizenship in East and Southeast Asian and Pacific states including Australia; the impact of mass migration, cultural homogenization and other effects of globalization on notions of citizenship; and possibilities of commitment to a transnational democratic citizenship that respects cultural difference.

Democracy in Small States

Author : Jack Corbett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192516809
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Small States written by Jack Corbett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Populism and the personalization of politics appears to be threatening the existence of democracy as we know it all over the world. It is now more important than ever to understand the history of this form of regime: why it has thrives and fails. But, existing studies are limited by their focus on a few large and predominately rich states. This book takes the opposite approach: it investigates how politics is practiced in the smallest states where hyper-personalization has always been a ubiquitous feature of political life. It optimistically finds that hyper-personalized democracy can actually persist against all odds, but also cautions that political practices in small states are often markedly different to larger states. Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Statehood À la Carte in the Caribbean and the Pacific

Author : Jack Corbett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192864246
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Statehood À la Carte in the Caribbean and the Pacific written by Jack Corbett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how leaders in the Caribbean and Pacific regions balance the autonomy-viability dilemma of postcolonial statehood - that political self-determination is a hollow achievement unless it is accompanied by economic development - by practising statehood à la carte. Previous research has focused on the pursuit of decolonial self-determination through and above the nation state, via regionalism and internationalism, or by creating non-sovereign alternatives to it. This book looks at how communities have sought the same goals below the state, including via secession and devolution. Downsizing is typically portrayed as the antithesis of progressive, cosmopolitan internationalism and employed as evidence for the claim that the age of anticolonial self-determination has ended. In this book, Jack Corbett shows how these movements are animated by similar ideas and motivations that are rendered viable by the simultaneous pursuit of regional integration and forms of non-sovereignty. He argues that the à la carte pursuit of political and economic independence through, above, and below the state, and via non-sovereign alternatives to it, is a pragmatic response to the contradictions inherent to coloniality.

Pacific Ways

Author : Stephen Levine
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776560264
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Ways written by Stephen Levine and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the politics of each Pacific Island state and territory, this well-researched volume discusses historical background and colonial experience, constitutional framework, political institutions, political parties, elections and electoral systems, and problems and prospects. Pacific Island countries and territories included are the original seven member states—New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Nauru, and the Cook Islands—along with all the new member states and organizations. A wide-ranging political survey, this comprehensive and completely up to date reference will appeal to Pacific peoples and anyone with an interest in politics.

South Pacific Islands Communication

Author : Evangelia Papoutsaki
Publisher : AMIC
ISBN 13 : 9814136085
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book South Pacific Islands Communication written by Evangelia Papoutsaki and published by AMIC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together scholarly contributions on communications issues across the South Pacific islands, this work aims to create a better understanding of what affects information flow and communication in smaller nations and how these impact on national development, governance and the creation of more cohesive societies.

Elections in Asia and the Pacific : A Data Handbook

Author : Dieter Nohlen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199249598
Total Pages : 875 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Elections in Asia and the Pacific : A Data Handbook written by Dieter Nohlen and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 875 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work continues the series of election data handbooks published by OUP. It presents a compendium of electoral data for all the 62 states in Asia, Australia and Oceania from their independence to the beginning of the 21st century.