The Failure of Democratic Politics in Fiji
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 11 July 1991
- ISBN 9780198273226
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages322 pages
- Size 224x145x24 mm
- Weight 545 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 tables, 2 maps 0
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Long description:
In 1987 two military coups in Fiji undermined institutions previously thought to be democratic in character. The coup leader, Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka, claimed that the coups were necessary in order to protect the rights of indigenous Fijians against the demands of the large Indian community.
Combining the techniques of the historian, the anthropologist, and the political theorist, Stephanie Lawson discusses the contemporary political situation in Fiji from both a historical and a theoretical viewpoint, and tracing the sources of the current divisions in Fiji to the well-intentioned, but in the end misguided, ambitions of colonial administrators to protect the way of life of indigenous Fijians.
Dr Lawson's analysis reveals many ironies. The very presence in Fiji of a large Indian community, now made a scapegoat by the coup leaders, is a result of the desire of colonial administrators to avoid forcing the indigenous population to become landless labourers, while at the same time securing a source of labour for a plantation-based agricultural system. She argues that post-colonial political institutions, themselves shaped by generations of colonial administrators, exacerbated and possibly created the very tensions between the indigenous population and Indians that they were designed to temper.
Dr Lawson demonstrates why race was never really an issue in recent events but why Rabuka could plausibly claim that it was. She comes to the provocative but convincing conclusion that Fiji has never really been a democracy in the Western sense of the word.
This book begins with a penetrating analysis of politics in Fiji from 1847 until the general election of 1982.
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Constitutional opposition and democratic politics; The early colonial basis of politics in Fiji; Europeans, Fijians, and the neo-traditional order; Indians and the franchise; Towards independence: institutional change and the emergence of the party system; Political parties and the party system in independent Fiji; The test for democratic politics in Fiji; Conclusion
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