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Young Kanak, Lifou, Loyalty Islands 2018 (Nic Maclellan)
Wed, 4 Sep - Thu, 5 Sep 2024

State of the Pacific 2024

Please note that this is a hybrid event. Please register on this page in Zoom Events, for both in-person and online attendance.

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Joko Widodo and Marcus Mietzner 2023
A/Prof Marcus Mietzner and Jokowi in Jakarta's Merdeka Palace in October 2023.
28 October 2024

Interviewing Indonesia’s outgoing President: A/Prof Marcus Mietzner writes about Jokowi

For A/Prof Marcus Mietzner, writing a book about Indonesia’s long-time president was a career highlight, but also posed significant challenges.
  • Indonesia
  • Democracy and elections
  • president
  • biography
Strong Patronage, Weak Parties The Case for Electoral Reform in the Philippines hero
01 January 2019

Strong Patronage, Weak Parties: The Case for Electoral Reform in the Philippines

Expert contributors survey major types of electoral systems found throughout the world, explain their powerful influence on both democratic quality and development outcomes, and explore the comparativ
  • Politics
  • Elections and electoral politics
  • Democracy and elections
The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia
01 December 2023

The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia

How Indonesia has turned its volatile post-authoritarian presidential system into one of the world's most stable.
  • Democracy and elections
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15 April 2019

Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia

'Democracy for Sale' is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations.
  • Asia
  • Democracy and elections
Opposing Suharto book cover
27 January 2005

Opposing Suharto: Compromise, resistance, and regime change in Indonesia

Opposing Suharto presents an account of democratization in the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia.
  • Asia
  • Social movements
  • Democracy and elections
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01 January 2019

Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines: Money Politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots

This study sheds light on the organisation of elections and electioneering across the Philippines.
  • Elections and electoral politics
  • Democracy and elections
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01 August 2022

Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia

Mobilizing for Elections presents a new framework for analyzing variation in patronage democracies, focusing on distinct forms of patronage and different networks through which it is distributed.
  • Asia
  • Democracy and elections
Money, Power and Ideology book cover by Marcus Mietzner
30 November 2013

Money, Power and Ideology: Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

This book provides an unprecedented and fine-grained analysis of the inner working of Indonesian parties, and by comparing them to their equivalents in other new democracies around the world.
  • Asia
  • Democracy and elections
Debating Democratisation in Myanmar book cover
30 July 2014

Debating Democratization in Myanmar

Coming at a critical time, and one of growing interest in this Southeast Asian country among researchers and policy-makers, this book addresses this complex question from various perspectives.
  • Asia
  • Economic Development
  • Democracy and elections
From Election to Coup in Fiji The 2006 campaign and its aftermath
01 June 2007

From Election to Coup in Fiji: The 2006 campaign and its aftermath

This book provides a comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the lead-up to, the outcome and the aftermath of Fiji’s historic 2006 election.
  • Pacific
  • Democracy and elections
  • Culture
 The Dynamics of Transitional Justice: International Models and Local Realities in East Timor
11 November 2013

The Dynamics of Transitional Justice: International Models and Local Realities in East Timor

The Dynamics of Transitional Justice draws on the case of East Timor in order to reassess how transitional justice mechanisms actually play out at the local level.
  • Aid and Development
  • Pacific
  • Restorative Justice
  • Terrorism & Violent Extremism
  • Sovereignty and independence
  • Democracy and elections
  • International organisations
A New Era? Timor-Leste after the UN
01 September 2015

A New Era? Timor-Leste after the UN

Collectively, the chapters provide a set of critical reflections on recent political, economic and social developments in Timor-Leste.
  • Aid and Development
  • Pacific
  • Economic Development
  • Democracy and elections
  • International organisations
Election 2007 The Shift to Limited Preferential Voting in Papua New Guinea
01 September 2013

Election 2007: The Shift to Limited Preferential Voting in Papua New Guinea

This volume provides an analysis of Papua New Guinea’s general election in 2007, drawing on the work of a domestic monitoring team and addressing key issues.
  • Aid and Development
  • Pacific
  • Elections and electoral politics
  • Democracy and elections
Political Life Writing in the Pacific Reflections on Practice
01 July 2015

Political Life Writing in the Pacific: Reflections on Practice

This book aims to reflect on the experiential side of writing political lives in the Pacific region.
  • Pacific
  • Politics
  • Public policy
  • Democracy and elections
The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji A Coup to End All Coups?
01 April 2009

The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji: A Coup to End All Coups?

This book explores the factors behind – and the implications of – the 2006 coup.
  • Pacific
  • Politics
  • Democracy and elections
  • History
Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands
01 May 2008

Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands

Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands examines a crisis moment in recent Solomon Islands history.
  • Pacific
  • Politics
  • Democracy and elections
  • Governance and regulation
  • Foreign Interference
Myanmar Transformed? People, Places and Politics
01 December 2018

Myanmar Transformed? People, Places and Politics

his book takes stock of the mutations, continuities and fractures at the heart of Myanmar’s political and economic transformations.
  • Terrorism & Violent Extremism
  • The political economy of reform
  • Democracy and elections