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Foreign Flowers: Institutional Transfer and Good Governance in the Pacific Islands (East-West Center Studies)
Peter Larmour
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Description for Foreign Flowers: Institutional Transfer and Good Governance in the Pacific Islands (East-West Center Studies)
Hardcover. Focuses on the process of policy transfer in the Pacific and the use of power to achieve it. The book identifies institutional transfer as a persistent theme in the study of the Pacific, and the author analyzes about forty cases of institutional transfer Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKP; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
Wide ranging and cross-disciplinary in its approach, Foreign Flowers focuses on the process of policy transfer in the Pacific and the use of power to achieve it. Early chapters identify institutional transfer as a persistent theme in the study of the Pacific, reflected in ideas like cargo cults, home-grown constitutions, invented traditions, and weak states. The author analyzes about forty cases of institutional transfer, beginning with Tonga's borrowing of foreign institutions in the nineteenth century and ending with current attempts to induce island states to regulate their offshore financial centers. He goes on to distinguish factors that determine whether transfer ... Read more
Wide ranging and cross-disciplinary in its approach, Foreign Flowers focuses on the process of policy transfer in the Pacific and the use of power to achieve it. Early chapters identify institutional transfer as a persistent theme in the study of the Pacific, reflected in ideas like cargo cults, home-grown constitutions, invented traditions, and weak states. The author analyzes about forty cases of institutional transfer, beginning with Tonga's borrowing of foreign institutions in the nineteenth century and ending with current attempts to induce island states to regulate their offshore financial centers. He goes on to distinguish factors that determine whether transfer ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824829018
SKU
V9780824829018
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