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Governance in Samoa = pulega i Samoa / editors, Elise Huffer and Asofou So'o. - Canberra : Suva, Fiji : Asia Pacific Press ; Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 2000. - xiv, 222 pages : map ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Codes of governance in the Pacific -- Where theory meets practice : the limits of the good -- Pule'aga : views of governance in Samoa -- The good governance agenda for civil society : implications for the fa'aSamoa -- Urban governance : the case of Apia -- Women NGOs within the new governance agenda : are they still based on alofa? -- Are the matai 'out of time'? tradition and democracy : contemporary ambiguities and historical transformations of the concept of chief -- Civil and political liberty : the case of Samoa -- Local government in Samoa and the search for balance -- Talofa e Aiga, ua 'ai e lago le tofa! Village governance and development in Falelatai -- Governance, development and leadership in Polynesia : a microstudy from Samoa.


Text in English with some Samoan.

ISBN: 0731536517 9780731536511 982020156X 9789820201569

LCCN: 2001326058

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Civil society--Samoa.
Non-governmental organizations--Samoa.
Central-local government relations--Samoa.
Political participation--Samoa.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Samoa--Politics and government.

Dewey Class. No.: 320.99614 320.99613