Noted: Crucial democracy media role

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Pacific
• governance
• media freedom
• democracy
• government leaders