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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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Nurturing resilient journalists: A Fiji case study of student news reporting in challenging Pacific environments

Pacific Journalism Review
This 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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Has political instability contributed to price clustering on Fiji's stock market? [PDF]

The goal of this paper is to examine evidence of stock price clustering on the South Pacific Stock Exchange, located in Fiji, and explore its determinants.
Paresh Kumar Narayan, Russell Smyth
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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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Skilled Emigration and Skill Creation: A quasi-experiment [PDF]

Does the emigration of highly-skilled workers deplete local human capital? The answer is not obvious if migration prospects induce human capital formation.
Michael Clemens, Satish Chand
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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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Do chiefly systems discourage schooling? [PDF]

An indigenous chiefly system can shape a country's economic growth and inequality through institutional development in its colonial history. This paper addresses this thesis by using original household survey data in rural Fiji, which contain unique ...
Yoshito Takasaki
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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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Does paradise have a future? : a three-gap analysis of the Fiji economy [PDF]

econometric models;economic growth;Fiji;external financing;financial needs ...
Akram-Lodhi, A.H., Sepehri, A.
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