- Elections and the chain of democratic choice
- The 2019 Elections: Electoral Quality, Political Inequality and the Flames of Frustration in Honiara
- Independent MPs, Political Party Legislation and Electoral Politics in Solomon Islands
- 2018 Fiji Election Results: Patterns of Voting by Provinces, Rural-Urban Localities, and by Candidates
- Religion and the New Media: Discourses and Debates in the 2018 Fiji General Election Campaign
- Elections and the chain of democratic choice
- The 2019 Elections: Electoral Quality, Political Inequality and the Flames of Frustration in Honiara
- Independent MPs, Political Party Legislation and Electoral Politics in Solomon Islands
- 2018 Fiji Election Results: Patterns of Voting by Provinces, Rural-Urban Localities, and by Candidates
- Religion and the New Media: Discourses and Debates in the 2018 Fiji General Election Campaign
Elections and the chain of democratic choice
Guest Editors: Paul Carnegie, Vijay Naidu and Sandra Tarte (Email: sandra.tarte@usp.ac.fj)
This special issue of The Journal of Pacific Studies covers the 2018 general elections in the Republic of Fiji Islands and the 2019 general elections in Solomon Islands. In 2000, the two countries experienced the overthrow of democratically elected governments. On 19th May 2000, nine armed soldiers of the Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces led by failed business executive George Speight entered the Fiji parliament and held the Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and his government hostage. A little over two weeks later on 5th June, Andrew Nori and the Malaita Eagle Force, a faction in the armed conflict in the Solomon Islands held elected Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa’alo hostage at gunpoint, and forced him to resign. These martial acts ruptured the constitutional rule of law and impaired democratic institutions and mechanisms in both countries…