Leadership Succession and the High Drama of Political Conduct: Corruption Stories from Samoa

Corbett, Jack; Shiu, Roannie Ng

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“…Samoa is the one Pacific state with a stable party system. At independence, there were no political parties but after more than a decade of self-rule the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) emerged in the early 1980s and has held government, virtually uninterrupted, ever since (So'o 2008;Iati 2013;Corbett & Ng Shiu, 2014). The HRPP combines economic liberalization and modernization with traditionalist policies that uphold the position of traditional leaders (matai) and the church (Samoa had matai suffrage until 1990 and retains matai candidacy, Fraenkel and So'o 2005).…”

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Labor movements and party system development: Why does the Caribbean have stable two-party systems, but the Pacific does not?

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The authors would like to thank three anonymous reviewers for their extremely thorough and detailed feedback on successive iterations of the paper, which assisted in developing the argument and improving it immensely. We would also like to thank the Islands and Small States Institute at the University of Malta who provided Jack and Wouter with the opportunity to discuss the idea for this article and Raimondas Ibenskas and Anika Gauja for suggested readings on party system development. Sections 5.2-5.4 have been adapted with the permission of Oxford University Press from Corbett, J. and Veneendaal, W. (2018) Democracy in Small States: Persisting Against All Odds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. We have also benefitted from funding provided by the Australian Research Council (grant number DP160100897) and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (VENI 451.16.028). Labor Movements and Party System Development:Why does the Caribbean have stable two-party systems, but the Pacific does not? ABSTRACT: Party system development is often said to be essential for democratization. But if this is a necessary precondition, why do two of the most successful developing regions in terms of democratization, the Caribbean and the Pacific, which are composed similarly of small (island) developing states, display such extreme divergence in their experiences with party democracy? The former has the most stable and pure two-party systems in the world, while in the latter political parties are either weakly institutionalized or absent. Since both have attitudinally homogenous societies and similar institutions, conventional explanations that highlight the importance of social cleavages and electoral systems cannot explain this difference. Employing the framework of a most similar systems design incorporating twenty-three countries, we challenge dominant assumptions about the causes of party system development (PSD) and subsequent institutionalization (PSI) by focusing on their distinctive post-colonial political-economic settlements. Specifically, we process trace the role of labor movements and their manifestation as political parties and argue that this provides the strongest explanation for why the Caribbean has stable party systems, but the Pacific does not. By emphasizing the importance of pre-existing social organizations for the development of parties, our analysis foregrounds the otherwise largely neglected literature on early European party organization and the role of political economy in PSD.

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“…By contrast, interdisciplinary journalsbe they policy, development or area studies focusedhave on the whole been more receptive to his approach (e.g. Corbett, 2013c;Corbett and Ng Shiu, 2014). How should we make sense of these differences?…”

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -Turning laborious ethnographic research into stylized argumentative prose for academic consumption is a painstaking craft. The purpose of this paper is to revisit this perennial issue, and extend a claim the authors have made elsewhere about the inevitably impressionistic, rather than the oft-claimed "systematic", nature of this task. Design/methodology/approach -The authors draw and reflect on their own experiences of conducting and navigating across political science, ethnography and interpretation in order to justify and uphold the benefits of impressionism. Findings -The authors argue that the impressionistic account of writing up fieldwork has important implications for these diverse disciplinary terrains. Originality/value -The authors develop an argument as to how and why an appreciation of this craft's impressionistic nature can affect how the authors go about creating, evaluating and ultimately thinking about ethnographic research in foreign disciplines like political science.

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“…1 1 Fourteen from Liechtenstein (see Veenendaal 2015), 13 from St Kitts‐Nevis (see Veenendaal 2014), 22 from Malta (see Veenendaal 2019), 21 from Suriname (see Veenendaal 2020); 27 from Samoa (see Corbett and Ng Shiu 2014) and 15 from Solomon Islands (see Corbett and Wood 2013; Corbett 2015a). …”

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The core executive and small states: Is coordination the primary challenge?

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This article interrogates three key arguments derived from the functional approach to studying the core executive: (1) that coordination is the primary problem that confronts executive decision‐makers; (2) that improved coordination will lead to better governance; and (3) that linkage problems dissipate as policy systems consolidate. Drawing on the experience of hitherto understudied small states, including 112 interviews with political elites, we show how the effects of country size create governance challenges in the form of leader dominance, patronage systems and capacity constraints. Our findings support the call to broaden the focus of functional analysis beyond its traditional emphasis on coordination. For scholars of small states we synthesize existing empirical findings and provide a theoretical justification for future work using an adaptation of the core executive approach.

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Leadership Succession and the High Drama of Political Conduct: Corruption Stories from Samoa

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Labor movements and party system development: Why does the Caribbean have stable two-party systems, but the Pacific does not?

Labor movements and party system development: Why does the Caribbean have stable two-party systems, but the Pacific does not?

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