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Article: Governance and Reform in the South Pacific.(Review)
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- Oceania
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- December 1, 2000
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Edited by P. Larmour.
Canberra: Australian National University, National Centre for Development Studies.
(Pacific Policy Paper 23). 1998
Pp. 326pp.
This collection of thirteen papers is published under the rubric of the 'State, Society and Governance in Melanesia' research programme hosted by the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. As the editor points out in his introduction, the word 'governance' means all things to all men (or women), and this point is borne out by the remaining chapters in the book, most of which do not even attempt to grapple with the utility or significance of this ...