Rule of law, legitimate governance & development in the Pacific / Iutisone Salevao.
The notion that the rule of law embodies or guarantees all the essential requirements for a perfectly just society is extravagant and naive. Nonetheless, the rule of law remains an essential human virtue whose usefulness the world has yet to outgrow. Using the rule of law as a mobilising theme, this...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Canberra :
ANU E Press and Asia Pacific Press,
[2005]
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access Table of contents |
| Summary: | The notion that the rule of law embodies or guarantees all the essential requirements for a perfectly just society is extravagant and naive. Nonetheless, the rule of law remains an essential human virtue whose usefulness the world has yet to outgrow. Using the rule of law as a mobilising theme, this book recasts Western theories of law, good governance and development in a Pacific perspective. While Iutisone Salevao works primarily within a legal analytical framework, he employs a multifaceted approach to address the challenge of making Western theories relevant to the concrete and normative contexts of the Pacific peoples, and to accommodate Pacific values, ideologies, structures and practices within the modern discourse on law. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 195 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1920942556 9781920942557 0731537211 9780731537211 |