State and Society in Papua New Guinea : The First Twenty-Five Years

May, R.J.

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“…For instance, Narokobi (1980: 28) considers that ‘small self-contained communities’ are the distinguishing factor of precolonial Papua New Guinea 12 . In terms of leadership, May (2004: 204) concludes that: Papua New Guinean societies (and most of Melanesia generally) were characterised as ‘acephalous’, lacking the formal, hereditary chiefly structures which typified neighbouring Polynesia and other small-scale traditional societies in much of Africa and Asia. Leadership was seen to be localised, and normally determined by competition on the basis of skills in warfare, oratory, accumulating wealth and arranging exchanges, or in the possession of special knowledge or personal qualities.…”

Section: Precolonial Intuitions and Ethnic Fractionalisation In The Smentioning

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Linking precolonial institutions with ethnic fractionalisation: what are we measuring?

Larcom

2019

Journal of Institutional Economics

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This paper highlights a link between measures for precolonial institutions and ethnic fractionalisation in postcolonial countries. A conceptual explanation is provided for why countries that were more politically centralised in precolonial times should be less ethnically fractionalised in current times. This result is confirmed for a sample of postcolonial countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. This is followed by a comparative case study in the South Pacific countries of Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Samoa. It is hoped that these results will lead to further empirical work focused at delving deeper into the link between these two measures to better understand what they are actually measuring, and why both are so closely related to economic development.

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Section: Precolonial Intuitions and Ethnic Fractionalisation In The Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Linking precolonial institutions with ethnic fractionalisation: what are we measuring?

Larcom

2019

Journal of Institutional Economics

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“…On the island of Bougainville, following the attempted secession from Papua New Guinea that began in 1987, there was a "(re)discovery" of traditional authority figures who had allegedly disappeared under colonial rule and still remained that way during the first decade of independence. To fill the authority vacuum on Bougainville, communities reached back in time to reconstruct councils of elders or chiefs that remained after settlement had been reached (May 2004). In other localities of Papua New Guinea, more chiefly systems were similarly rediscovered.…”

Section: Policy Transfer Political Legitimacy and Developing Countriesmentioning

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Policy Transfer through Time and the Search for Legitimacy in Developing Nations

McCarthy-Jones

Turner

2015

Politics & Policy

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This article explores the relationship between policy transfer through time and the quest for political legitimacy in developing countries. It is concerned with instances where contemporary figures reach back a long way in history in the search for items that can be used to legitimate present or future political arrangements. The first part of the article broadly classifies the various ways in which time has been used, but acknowledges the relative neglect of the temporal dimension in policy transfer studies. However, in the process of the search for political legitimation in developing countries, there has been a regular use of policy transfer through time. This is explored in a detailed case study of President Hugo Ch avezs Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela. From this case study, a four-stage sequence of policy transfer through time is constructed.

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“…The Pacific nation of PNG achieved independence from Australia on September 16, 1975. Although politics in the country has been turbulent throughout its history (see Dorney, 2001;May, 2004 for more comprehensive accounts), May (2004) suggests that it was during the 1990s that nepotism and corruption became most noticeable. PNG is a weak state 1 in that it fails to provide citizens in many parts of the country with security, rule of law, economic opportunities and essential infrastructure and services.…”

Section: Functional and Dysfunctional Perspectives Of Corruption In Pmentioning

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“…As a result, writings about PNG have overwhelmingly linked corruption to the dysfunctional perspective. Corruption has been described as leading to a severe breakdown of law and order in the country (Morauta, 1996;Pitts, 2001Pitts, , 2002May, 2004). For example, Pitts (2002), suggests that illegal corruption by elites results in citizens feeling victimised and, in turn, encourages them to mimic their leaders' illegal activities in order to gain a greater share of state resources.…”

Section: Functional and Dysfunctional Perspectives Of Corruption In Pmentioning

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Is All Corruption Dysfunctional? Perceptions of Corruption and Its Consequences in Papua New Guinea

Walton

2012

Public Admin & Development

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SUMMARY Many anti‐corruption organisations work from the notion that both petty and grand corruption axiomatically results in negative consequences. However, few studies have asked citizens to evaluate the effects of different scales and types of corruption. This article investigates how rural people in Papua New Guinea associate dysfunctional or functional consequences to different types and scales of corruption. It draws on findings from focus groups conducted in four provinces of the country. The article finds that most examples of corruption considered by respondents were perceived as dysfunctional; however, marginalised respondents considered small‐scale corruption as functional—if the acts described benefitted marginalised people. These findings suggest that it is critical that anti‐corruption organisations understand and respond to the constraints faced by poor and marginalised people when operating in weak states. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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State and Society in Papua New Guinea : The First Twenty-Five Years

Cited by 21 publications

References 41 publications

Linking precolonial institutions with ethnic fractionalisation: what are we measuring?

Linking precolonial institutions with ethnic fractionalisation: what are we measuring?

Policy Transfer through Time and the Search for Legitimacy in Developing Nations

Is All Corruption Dysfunctional? Perceptions of Corruption and Its Consequences in Papua New Guinea

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