State and society in Papua New Guinea : the first twenty-five years / R.J. May.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-427) and index.

Introduction: Papua New Guinea at twenty-five -- Port Moresby and the bush: Papua New Guinea's first post-independence decade -- Political style in modern Melanesia -- Micronationalism in Papua New Guinea -- The Political Education Programme -- Class, ethnicity, regionalism and political parties -- Decentralisation: constitutional form and political reality -- Decentralisation: two steps forward, one step back -- (Re?)Discovering Chiefs: Traditional authority and the restructuring of local-level government in Papua New Guinea -- The PNGDF in troubled times -- The military factor in the events of March 1997 -- Challenging the State -- The Bougainville Crisis -- 'Mutual respect, friendship and cooperation'? The Papua New Guinea-Indonesia border and its effect on relations between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia -- From promise to crisis: a political economy of Papua New Guinea -- State, society and governance: A Philippines-Papua New Guinea comparison -- Nugget, Pike, et al.: The role of the Reserve Bank of Australia in Papua New Guinea's decolonisation -- Nationalism and Papua New Guinea writing.

Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL.

This volume brings together a number of papers written by the author between 1971 and 2001 which address issues of political and economic development and social change in Papua New Guinea.

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL.