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Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa

Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa

Lawson, Stephanie

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0521496381
ISBN13: 9780521496384
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jan 26 1996
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
This study analyzes the ways in which political elites use the idea of tradition to legitimize certain practices and institutions. Within this framework, case studies focus on constitutional development and the chiefly power in Fiji, the monarchy and the Pro-Democracy Movement in Tonga, and the political issues surrounding the move to universal suffrage in Western Samoa. The book provides a critical approach to the political implications of romanticizing non-Western cultural traditions, especially in terms of democratic development.

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