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When the barking stopped: Censorship, self-censorship and spin in Fiji
Pacific Journalism Review, 2013 After four military coups in 20 years, Fiji is poised to return to democracy in elections promised for 2014. An emergency decree placing censors in newsrooms was lifted in January 2012, but with domestic media gagged by lawsuits and Fiji Television ...
Robert A. Hooper
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Centripetalism in Consociational Democracy: The Multiple Proportional Vote and the Belgian Case
Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 108-130, June 2024.Abstract Belgium illustrates that using consociational institutions in divided societies may ensure a peaceful political environment, but it fails in reducing its centrifugal tendencies. As communitarian issues threaten to paralyse the political debate, preserving the efficiency of the state will require adding centripetal incentives to the ...
Laurent de Briey, Aurian de Briey
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Political systems, regime memory, and economic freedom
Contemporary Economic Policy, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 336-354, April 2024.Abstract We expand on the economic research about regime types, culture, institutions, and economic freedom, with the development of a unique measure of regime memory and examine the generational effect of past regimes on a country's level of economic freedom.
Peter Calcagno +3 more
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Pacific Journalism ReviewThis article examines the multifaceted learning experiences University of the South Pacific (USP) journalism students gain from practical training. It is the latest in a series of papers on applied learning and teaching at USP journalism.
Shailendra Singh, Geraldine Panapasa
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FIJI: Honest Iago? A media and academic freedom case study
Pacific Journalism Review, 2015 This case study involves issues of academic freedom and media freedom at the regional University of the South Pacific (USP) in a dispute between the senior administration of the university and two journalism lecturers over the impact of media releases ...
Patrick Craddock
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Special report: Pacific media freedom 2011: A status report
Pacific Journalism Review, 2011 Pacific media freedom has been under siege for more than a decade, particularly since an attempted coup in Fiji in May 2000, when a television station was attacked and ransacked, a foreign journalist was shot and wounded and a local journalist ended up ...
Alex Perrottet, David Robie
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Fiji 2000: Journalists and the George Speight coup
Pacific Journalism Review, 2007 Much criticism of both the local and international media’s role during the May 2000 coup in Fiji emerged after the crisis. Critics included editors and journalists of the local and international media and political and historical analysts who knew the ‘real reasons’ behind the coup and did not see this being reported.
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Where are the women candidates during elections? A Fiji media case study
Pacific Journalism Review, 2013 This article examines the visibility of female election candidates, and females in general, in The Fiji Times and Fiji Sun during the 2006 general election.
Shazia Usman
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Politics, democracy and the media: Case studies in Fiji, Tonga and the Solomon Islands
Pacific Journalism Review, 2006 This article looks at three South Pacific Island nations—Fiji, Tonga and the Solomon Islands—in terms of some landmark changes occurring in their political arenas. Fiji, beset by racial and political problems culminating in three coups, is experimenting
Shailendra Singh, Som Prakash
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Frontline reporters: A students' internet coup
Pacific Journalism Review, 2001 Hours after a mob attached Fiji Television and cut transmission for almost 48 hours, the University of the South Pacific pulled the plug on the website, fearing a similar raid on the sprawling Laucala campus.
David Robie
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