The failure of democratic politics in Fiji / Stephanie Lawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawson, Stephanie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiji--Politics and government.

Fiji.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xv, 307 pages : maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

Summary:

Using the techniques of the historian, the anthropologist, and the political theorist, Lawson discusses the contemporary political situation in Fiji from both a historical and theoretical viewpoint. Drawing on archival material and fieldwork, she traces the sources of the current divisions in Fiji to the well-intentioned, but ultimately misguided, ambitions of colonial administrators to protect the way of life of indigenous Fijians. The author comes to the provocative conclusion that Fiji has never really been a democracy in the Western sense of the word.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-304) and index.

ISBN:

0198273223

OCLC:

22984864