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The Resilience of the Legislature in Fiji

Avinash Kumar

出版	Australian National University, 2012
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iWEVnQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This thesis examines the factors that contribute to the resilience of the institution of the legislature in emerging democracies. Although an institutionalized legislature is a defining attribute of all established democracies, the vast literature on democratization pays scant attention to this key institution in emerging democracies. Apart from a few exceptions, most literature on legislatures is based on the established democracies, particularly the United States and Europe. Only a handful of scholars concentrate on the legislatures in new democracies, who generally emphasise their failures rather than their strengths in promoting democracy in those countries. This has resulted in a gap in the literature on legislatures between the established and emerging democracies. This thesis attempts to address this gap in the literature on legislatures in emerging democracies by taking Fiji's legislature as a case study, a country that has had almost no study based on its legislature.