Open AccessNoted: Crucial democracy media role
Author(s) -
David Robie
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v13i1.897
Subject(s) - democracy , vision , project commissioning , publishing , political science , corporate governance , liberalism , futures contract , political economy , liberal democracy , law , human rights , sociology , democratic governance , public administration , media studies , politics , anthropology , management , economics , financial economics
Many chapters in Pacific Futures examine the exclusive and thorny nature of democracy and its weaknesses in the region, governance problems, the tension between human rights and culture, law reform and nation-building, neo-liberalism and the 'disciplining' of Pacific Island states, and 'whose Oceania'—contending visions of community.