Notes on Traditional Leadership in Contemporary Palauan Society
Title | Notes on Traditional Leadership in Contemporary Palauan Society PDF eBook |
Author | Matori Yamamoto |
Publisher | |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 1977* |
Genre | Palau |
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Leadership and Cultural Change in Palau
Title | Leadership and Cultural Change in Palau PDF eBook |
Author | Roland W. Force |
Publisher | |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2013-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258631437 |
Traditional Leadership in Palau
Title | Traditional Leadership in Palau PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Civic leaders |
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Chiefs Today
Title | Chiefs Today PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Miles White |
Publisher | |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780804728492 |
Explores the relationship between traditional leadership and new forms of government in 13 Pacific societies. In some, traditional perquisites and political authority have overlapped so that the state is a contemporary form of chiefdom; in others chiefs operate as a mechanism of local accommodation to centralized state authority, facilitating state operations in the local community; in still others, local chiefs have risen up against central authority and led their communities in opposition to the state and depredations. The studies illuminate processes of social change. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Leadership in the Pacific Islands
Title | Leadership in the Pacific Islands PDF eBook |
Author | Donald R. Shuster |
Publisher | National Centre for Development Studies Research S Acific St |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Politics and Democracy in Microstates
Title | Politics and Democracy in Microstates PDF eBook |
Author | Wouter Veenendaal |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2014-10-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317646576 |
Why are small states statistically more likely to have a democratic political system? By addressing this question from a qualitative and comparative methodological angle, this book analyses the effects of a small population size on political competition and participation. By comparing the four microstates of San Marino (Europe), St. Kitts and Nevis (Caribbean), Seychelles (Africa), and Palau (Oceania), it provides fresh and stimulating insight, concluding that the political dynamics of microstates are not as democratic as commonly believed. Instead, it is found in all four cases that smallness results in personalistic politics, dominance of the political executive, patron-client relations between citizens and politicians, and the circumvention of formal political institutions. In addition, the book suggests that the study of formal institutions provides an incomplete image of microstate democracy and that informal characteristics of politics in microstates also need to be explored in order to better explain the influence of smallness on democracy. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of democracy, democratization, regional and decentralization studies and comparative politics.
Ampo
Title | Ampo PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Japan |
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