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

• VerfasserIn: Salevao, Iutisone,
• Place / Publishing House: Canberra, Australia : : ANU E Press :, Asia Pacific Press,, 2005.; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (195 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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.

Table of 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.