Foreign Flowers: Institutional Transfer and Good Governance in the Pacific Islands

by Peter Larmour

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. Many governing institutions in the region have been borrowed, transplanted, or imposed by colonial rule or military intervention from outside. The book attempts to answer several key questions: Where do the governing institutions originate and why are so many of them based on Western models?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824829336
• ISBN13: 9780824829339
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.9"