Rule of law, legitimate governance & development in the Pacific / Iutisone Salevao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salevao, Iutisone, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rule of law--Oceania.

Rule of law.

Oceania--Politics and government.

Oceania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Rule of law, legitimate governance and development in the Pacific

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press : Asia Pacific Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The notion that the rule of law embodies or guarantees all the essential requirements for a perfectly just society is extravagant and naïve. Nonetheless, the rule of law remains an essential human virtue whose usefulness the world has yet to outgrow. Using the rule of law as a mobilising theme, this book recasts Western theories of law, good governance and development in a Pacific perspective. While Lutisone Salevao works primarily within a legal analytical framework, he employs a multifaceted approach to address the challenge of making Western theories relevant to the concrete and normative contexts of the Pacific peoples, and to accommodate Pacific values, ideologies, structures and practices within the modern discourse on law.

Contents:

The rule of law : principles, issues and challenges

Diluting parliamentary sovereignty and de-privatising Pacific executive paradises

Reinventing government : constitutional principles, ideals, realities and fictions

Rights and liberties : the individual, the collective and the clash of ideologies, values, and institutions

The Pacific crisis of state legitimacy : courteous enemies, fragile alliances and uneasy bed-fellows.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781920942557

1920942556

OCLC:

1135611066

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459514