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From election to coup in Fiji - Whole Book (3.1 MB)

• Preliminary Pages
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Authors' biographies
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Fiji's perpetual legitimacy crisis
• A note on the Fiji electoral system
• Introduction
1. Changing calculus and shifting visions
• The campaign
2. Chance hai: from the campaign trail
3. The pre-election ‘cold war’: the role of the Fiji military during the 2006 election
4. Songs in sheds: some thoughts on the sociology of Fiji elections
5. Election observation missions to the 2006 Fiji election
• The major parties
6. The cycles of party politics
7. Defending the inheritance: The SDL and the 2006 election
8. The strategic impasse: Mahendra Chaudhry and the Fiji Labour Party
9. The failure of the moderates
• Issues
10. The impact of the Promotion of Reconciliation, Tolerance and Unity Bill on the 2006 election
11. Reflections on the economic and social policies of political parties at the 2006 election
12. Broken promises: women and the 2006 Fiji election
13. The media and the spectre of the 2000 coup
• Case studies
14. From marginalization to mainstream? Rotuma and the 2006 election
15. Tailevu North: five years down the line
16. Bose ni Vanua and democratic politics in Rewa
17. Whatever happened to Western separatism?
18. The ‘Generals’ - where to now?
• Analysis
19. Elections and nation-building: the long road since 1970
20. Indigenous title disputes: what they meant for the 2006 election
21. Bipolar realignment under the alternative vote system: an analysis of the 2006 electoral data
22. Fiji's electoral boundaries and malapportionment
23. The role of the Assembly of Christian Churches in Fiji in the 2006 election
24. The role of Hindu and Muslim organizations during the 2006 election
• Perspectives
25. Fiji's system of elections and government: where to from here?
26. Tainted elections
27. A view from the Electoral Commission
28. Multiparty cabinet and power-sharing: lessons from elsewhere
29. Women and minority interests in Fiji's alternative vote electoral system
30. The case for reform of the electoral system in Fiji
31. An election retrospective
• Epilogue - Understanding Fiji's political paradox
• Addendum - The Fiji coup of December 2006 - who, what, where and why?
• Appendices
1. Multiparty government in Fiji: a timeline, 1997-2006 Piccolo Willoughby
2. 2006 election results
• Index